Turnitin

Turnitin promotes academic integrity, streamlines grading and feedback, deters plagiarism, and improves student outcomes. Prevent plagiarism by identifying unoriginal content and manage potential academic misconduct by highlighting similarities among existing content. Easy-to-use feedback and grading features facilitate instructional intervention and save time both in and outside of the classroom.

Turnitin promotes academic integrity, streamlines grading and feedback, deters plagiarism, and improves student outcomes. Prevent plagiarism by identifying unoriginal content and manage potential academic misconduct by highlighting similarities among existing content. Easy-to-use feedback and grading features facilitate instructional intervention and save time both in and outside of the classroom.

Canvas integration

In Course Navigation, click Assignments.
To add a new assignment, click the + Assignment button.
Enter the assignment's name, details, total points possible, and choose your preferred display of grades.
Use the Submission Type dropdown to select Online. Select File Uploads as Online Entry Options.
Once you have selected the submission type, a Plagiarism Review box will appear below. In the Plagiarism Review dropdown, select Turnitin.
Once you have selected Turnitin, the box will expand with more settings for how you want Turnitin to operate with the submissions. Please review and complete these carefully, as they control if submitted papers are included in the Turnitin repository and how the similarity report is prepared.
Setup a date timeline for showing similarity reports to students.
Complete the rest of the Canvas assignment set-up then click Save or Save and Publish.

Once students submit their papers, a similarity report should be available in Speedgrader. You can click on the similarity report icon (a colored flag) that will open a Turnitin Feedback Studio window. For additional information on how to access, view the Accessing the Similarity Report (instructors).

Students can view their Similarity Report (if enabled) though their submission details. This can be accessed through the assignment or Grades. For additional information on how students access the report, view Accessing the Similarity Report (students).

You have the option of using Turnitin to check their submissions retroactively in an assignment in Canvas once students have already submitted.

Note: You can only use this feature in Canvas assignments that required file upload or text entry submissions, not external tools.

From the assignment, click Edit.
In the Plagiarism Review window, change None to Turnitin; the box will expand with a few more Turnitin options.
Click Save then it will take you to the Assignment’s main page.
Click on Speedgrader.
From the Speedgrader, click the Resubmit to Turnitin button as seen in image below:

After you have resubmitted to Turnitin, the submission will automatically be queued for assessment and will receive a similarity score. You do not have to wait for each student's similarity score to be processed before submitting the next student's assignment for analysis. Navigate through the submissions and find other student submissions that require analysis. You can do this by clicking either the right arrow or down arrow located in the upper right corner next to the student name. This process may take some time depending on the file size, word count, and amount of submissions being processed simultaneously.

You will need to click the Resubmit to Turnitin button for every student submission that was made prior to enabling Turnitin in your assignment. Any student submissions that occur after you enabled Turnitin will be automatically processed.

Use the Speedgrader tool in Canvas to grade and provide feedback on assignments using Turnitin. Any grades (including rubrics) entered through Feedback Studio can be viewed by students, however, the grade does not get passed back to Canvas. Our recommendation is to use the Similarity Report as reference, but to use the native built-in features in Canvas to provide feedback to students

Tutorials

Consult the tutorials on how to use Turnitin in Canvas.