Turnitin Debuts New French Language Services

OAKLAND, California -

- Company Releases Turnitin Originality Checking & GradeMark Services for French Speakers in France, the EU, Canada, Africa and Global Markets

Turnitin, the leader in originality checking & plagiarism prevention, today announced availability of its award-winning Turnitin Originality Checking and GradeMark services in French. To date, the company has working relationships with hundreds of educational institutions in Canada and countries throughout the European Union and Africa with significant populations of French-speaking students. Worldwide, Turnitin and GradeMark are used in over 108 countries.

“This is in response to the strong demand for our award-winning services to institutions worldwide,” said Dr. John Barrie, PhD, founder and CEO of iParadigms, the creator of Turnitin. “Turnitin and GradeMark have helped millions of English-speaking students across all disciplines become better writers and increase originality, while protecting their work from unauthorized copying.” More info is available at turnitin.com, or in French at: turnitin.com/index_i18n.html?lang=fr

Canadian institutions should contact Michael Thompson (mthompson@iparadigms.com) for more information.

Interested parties in France or the European Union may contact James Thorley of nLearning (sales@nlearning.co.uk or press@nlearning.co.uk) for more information.

Institutions in Africa may contact Andre van der Merwe of Eiffel Corp. (Andre@eiffel-corp.co.za) for more information.

About iParadigms LLC

Turnitin is a service of iParadigms LLC, the leader in textual intellectual property protection and a pioneer of web-based services for collaborative, online educational support. The company is at the forefront of using technology to increase awareness of best practices in teaching and learning as it relates to the use of other people’s textual content. Turnitin is the leading originality checking and plagiarism prevention service used by millions of students and faculty and thousands of institutions in more than 100 countries.

About nLearning

nLearning (www.nlearning.co.uk) is a leading provider of consulting and software services for academic integrity in Europe, supporting the adoption of Turnitin in over 650 academic institutions (including 97% of UK universities). Established in 2002, nLearning promotes a holistic approach to addressing plagiarism, through a combination of ethics, engineering and enforcement. The nLearning advisory and training service, PlagiarismAdvice.org, offers consultancy and guidance for institutions and national government bodies. Much of the material produced is subsequently available at no cost to the community from our PlagiarismAdvice.org website, and at our biennial international conference on plagiarism prevention (www.plagiarismconference.com).

About Eiffel

Eiffel Corp, the official partner for Turnitin and WriteCycle in Africa, delivers a holistic and innovative range of services and products for the global higher education community. Eiffel Corp serves 32 institutions directly in Africa and over 130 internationally. The Eiffel team is passionate about education and training, and has trained over a 1000 users in how to maximise their use of web-based instructional solutions the past seven years.

Source: iParadigms LLC

Africa Contact, Andre van der Merwe of Eiffel Corp., +2721-782-2993, +2782-427-1638; or UK/EU Contact, Will Murray, +44-(0)845-643-0105, press at nlearning.co.uk, sales at nlearning.co.uk; or US Contact, Katie Povejsil, Vice President of Marketing of iParadigms LLC, Creators of Turnitin, GradeMark and WriteCycle, +1-510-287-9720, ext. 287, kpovejsil at iparadigms.com