Minutes of Meeting

A meeting took place on 6th November 2017 at 12:00 noon in Board room, Corporate block regarding Turnitin Plagiarism software.

Agenda:

1. To have the demo of the Turnitin software and to discuss its utility

The members present were:

1. Dr T.D Dogra- Director IQAC and Chairman for the meeting
2. Dr S.C Mohapatra- Dean Academic affairs
3. Dr Amit Srivastava- Dean Examinations and FET
4. Mr Vimal- System analyst
5. Mr Jitender Vats- IT Head
6. Mr Mukesh Bharti- Head, Librarian
7. Dr Astha Chaudhry- Sub Dean, Member IQAC
8. Dr AkshayMunjal- Member IQAC
9. Dr Amit Bhardwaj- Sub Dean, Member IQAC
10. Mr Anil Sharma- Secretary, IQAC
11. Mr Ankit Saxena- Representative from Turnitin
12. Mr Ajay Verma- Purchase Manager

The following points were arrived at after detailed deliberations:

1. Mr Ankit Saxena gave the introduction about the Turnitin software, its wide repository including the unique access to Cross Ref repository. The technical queries about the file formats supported, the speed of uploading and use, the display of result were cleared. It was reported by Mr Ankit that once, SGT University signs an MOU with Turnitin, and pay the requisite subscription fee for one rolling year, a unique Id and password will be issued which can be used to create 1 admin account, 10 instructor account and 100 user accounts. The user accounts would be recyclable.
2. The demonstration using existing file was given and plagiarism report was shown.
3. It was decided that minimum acceptable percentage for plagiarism needs to decided by the University internally taking into account the faculty and context and IQAC will laid down the plagiarism policy for SGT University.
4. All the members agreed about the proposal to obtain Turnitin software and matter was forwarded to the purchase department.

Minutes recorded by
DrAstha Chaudhry

Minutes approved by
Dr T.D Dogra