Does University of Edinburgh use AI detection? No
Short answer
No. University of Edinburgh does not run AI detection on submissions, so no AI score is generated for your work.
Module rules on permitted AI use still apply either way, and a detector score is never the whole case — the university’s own statement and what it means for you are below.
What University of Edinburgh has said
AI features switched off. The March 2025 SADIE project report notes an AI detection feature was added to Turnitin in April 2023 and states that the AI services under the university's control "are all currently switched off". The phrasing covers the university's AI learning-technology features collectively rather than naming the Turnitin indicator's setting individually.
Source (28 Mar 2025): SADIE project report (Information Services)
The statement appears in a service report dated 28 March 2025 and describes the university's AI learning-technology features collectively; verified against the live page on 28 August 2026.
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What this means if you study here
Edinburgh's clearest public signal sits in its Information Services SADIE report (March 2025), which reviews the AI features arriving in the university's learning technology — naming the AI detection feature added to Turnitin in April 2023 — and states that the AI services under the university's control are all currently switched off. Read at face value, submissions at Edinburgh generate a similarity report but no Turnitin AI score.
One honesty note, which the tracker records rather than smooths over: the report's wording covers Edinburgh's AI learning-technology features collectively, rather than announcing the Turnitin indicator's setting as a standalone policy line. Students are separately required to acknowledge the university's generative-AI guidance before submitting — so the rules on permitted AI use apply in full, evidenced the ordinary way: your drafts, your sources, your ability to discuss the work.
Turnitin at University of Edinburgh
University of Edinburgh has the AI-detection feature disabled in its checking tools, so no AI score is generated for submissions. Similarity checking is separate from AI detection and remains the sector norm, so source matching should still be assumed.
How the AI writing report behaves wherever it is enabled — the 300-word minimum, the 1–19% asterisk band, and why the score is never proof on its own — is covered in does Turnitin detect AI?
Before you submit, anywhere
- Policies change and are re-verified here quarterly — the university’s linked statement above is always the authority, and your module brief overrides everything.
- Whatever the institutional toggle, keep your drafts and version history: process evidence decides disputes, not scores.
- No third-party tool predicts a Turnitin result — here is why. Use checks to understand your own writing, not to chase a number.
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