Turnitin
Plagiarism Review tool
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In summary
Enable Turnitin by selecting Plagiarism Review within Canvas Assignment settings. Students upload their documents to Canvas and Turnitin does the rest. Similarity Reports can be accessed through Canvas’ SpeedGrader.
In Canvas, create an Online Assignment – File Uploads
From the ‘Plagiarism Review’ dropdown menu, choose Turnitin.
Finally, you can choose whether you want students to be able to see their ‘Similarity report’ immediately, delayed, or never. It is worth considering whether you want your students to be able to receive this feedback so they have the opportunity to correct the issues and resubmit during the assessment period, or if you do not want them to receive such feedback at all.
The Turnitin Similarity Report can be accessed through Canvas’ SpeedGrader when marking assignments.
How-to guides
From Turnitin
Turnitin Plagiarism Review guide (for teachers)
Turnitin guides (for students)
Plagiarism Review vs Turnitin External Tool (LTI) (a comparison chart)
Migrating from Turnitin LTI tool to Plagiarism Review
To allow time for teachers to update their assignments, we have rolled back to LTI 1.1, and this will be disabled from 1 July 2024.
To this end, we have prepared some questions that may arise from teachers as they migrate their assignments to the Plagiarism Review tool.
What will happen to my rubrics that I have stored in Turnitin? How can I export these as Canvas rubrics?
I have Quickmarks stored in my Turnitin account, how can I use these in Canvas?
I’m familiar with the sliding scale that Turnitin rubrics have, is this available in Canvas rubrics?
There is a feature in Turnitin LTI to release the similarity report at a particular date and time that I specify. How can I do this in Canvas?
Will students still receive an email confirmation of their Turnitin digital receipt after they submit to the Plagiarism Review tool?
How do students view and access their similarity report via Plagiarism Review tool?
Can I still access and sign in to Turnitin.com to view my old assignments if I need to transfer content into Canvas?
General FAQs
What happened to the instructions for using Turnitin as an External Tool (LTI)?
Therefore, when creating a Canvas Assignment, where you see Turnitin as a drop-down option under the three dots (vertical ellipsis) button, don’t use it. Use the Plagiarism Review option instead.
What is a similarity report?
Students upload their document to a Canvas Assignment with Turnitin enabled. This is matched against the repository to generate a similarity ‘score’. Settings chosen at the time the assignment was created influence the type of report generated.
Instructors can choose whether or not students may view their similarity report. Reports generated can be downloaded and may form part of the process of investigation into academic misconduct.
Can I use Turnitin with Canvas SpeedGrader?
Can I use Turnitin outside of Canvas?
We recommend staff to use Canvas Plagiarism Framework as it doesn’t have the limitations of the External Tool LTI (e.g., Canvas Rubrics and Groups Assignments).
What if I don't have access to Turnitin as an instructor?
Please note that staff are asked to ensure that your Turnitin account uses your University of Auckland staff email address. This is because Turnitin will soon use the University’s Single Sign-On to log in; a security requirement for all major University applications. To update your email address in Turnitin, follow the steps in this Knowledge Base article.
Staff with an academic role or a teaching related role (group services, learning designer, learning technologist) have already been added to www.turnitin.com as an instructor and shouldn’t notice any difference once the tool uses Single Sign-On. Anyone not in these roles, who need to use www.turnitin.com as an instructor, should ask the Learning Technologies Team to add you to the Turnitin instructor group.
This change does not affect current Turnitin assignment integrations within Canvas, i.e., Plagiarism Review or External Tool LTI.
Can teachers or markers upload an assignment to Turnitin on behalf of a student?
Can I use Turnitin as a peer review assignment?
If you have used Turnitin as an External Tool (LTI) You can select Enable PeerMark (Turnitin’s version of peer review) in the settings within the Turnitin assignment. Note that once you select “Yes” for PeerMark and save your settings, you cannot remove the PeerMark assignments.
Can I add a Canvas rubric to a Turnitin assignment?
What about assigning different due dates for various students or groups?
Finding support
For additional support, please log a request with the Teaching Technologies Team.
Page updated 08/05/2024 (added a Quickmarks alternative to the FAQs)