Turnitin

Your Turnitin rubrics will still be available. However, to export these to Canvas, you will have to transfer the rubric details over by copying and pasting.

You cannot use Quickmarks in the Canvas SpeedGrader, the equivalent feature is called the Comment Library. A workaround would be to store your Quickmarks offline in a separate document and use these as annotations in SpeedGrader.

Canvas rubrics do not have a sliding scale but still have the same functionality, the only difference is that grading in SpeedGrader involves selecting a particular criterion rather than using the sliding scale.

This can be configured in the drop-down list under ‘Show report to students’ in the assignment settings. The default release time is ‘Immediately’ however you can align this with when the assignment is graded, or after the due date.

No, but they can always check in Canvas to confirm their submission and download a copy of their digital receipt by accessing the similarity report.

Students can either see their similarity report for a particular assignment in the Grades area for the course, or by navigating to the assignment in question which will display a coloured tab with a percentage indicating the similarity score, which will also display the similarity report. Feel free to share this resource with students on accessing the Similarity Report.

We’re checking the answer to this question and we will post an update soon.

Due to integration issues with the Turnitin LTI, we have moved away from this option. Instead we only recommend using the Turnitin CPF (Plagiarism Review) method.

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.

Don’t use the Turnitin option from the drop-down menu (vertical ellipses button) under the Canvas Assignment page.

This helps markers determine whether work submitted by a student is original. It identifies matches to written content from Turnitin databases, which also include other student submissions.

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.

It depends. Creating a Turnitin assignment via the Plagiarism Review method will allow you to use SpeedGrader for marking. Creating a Turnitin assignment vias the LTI External Tool method does not integrate with SpeedGrader; you will need to mark these assignments using Turnitin’s Feedback Studio, which will pass the marks back to Canvas Gradebook.

Yes, you can use www.turnitin.com directly, however, please note that you are asked to ensure that your Turnitin account uses your University of Auckland staff email address. The reason is described in this Knowledge Base article.

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).

This FAQ relates to those using Turnitin outside of canvas, i.e., www.turnitin.com.

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.

Yes. Use cases might include: submitting a late assignment on a student’s behalf after the deadline, or where a student has encountered technical difficulties in submitting their document. For assignments that were set up using the External Tool (LTI) method, visit: Single-file upload on behalf of a student. For assignments that use the Plagiarism Review in Canvas, visit: uploading an assignment to Canvas.

Both Canvas and Turnitin offer a peer review functionality. If you wish to use Canvas’ native peer review function, the assignment cannot be set up as an External Tool (LTI) assignment, you will have to use Plagiarism Review.

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.

Yes, you can add a rubric to both types of Turnitin assignment (Plagiarism Review or External LTI tool) but the rubric can only be used with SpeedGrader if the assignment was created via the Plagiarism Review method. Rubrics added to the External LTI assignment are just for students to understand the marking guidelines.

There is no problem when using the Plagiarism Review Tool, however, when using Turnitin as an External Tool (LTI), it cannot support differentiated due dates. If these are required, it is recommended to set the Turnitin due date to correspond with the final due date in Canvas in order to allow everyone to submit via Turnitin.