Turnitin, the goofball service my university employs to detect plagiarism, is erring on the side of privacy.
Problem is, I don't exactly trust Turnitin to get things right. They might flag something as plagiarized, but it's up to the wet robots -- us instructors -- to look at what they've flagged to make that judgment call.
With the veil of privacy pulled down, I can't do that verification. Without the verification, I can't say for sure my student plagiarized.
They do offer the option of contacting the university through their service to see if I can get access to the paper Turnitin flagged, but I have no idea how long that'll take, particularly with a foreign university.
I don't suspect this student is plagiarizing. What I'm seeing is about 98% inadvertent. I just don't see the point of working with a service that can't necessarily provide the goods.
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