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Turnitin provides a web-based plagiarism detection service, which can be used as a deterrent and as a tool to teach students how to work with sources. Turnitin Feedback Studio also includes tools for peer review, automated spelling and grammar review, document annotation and feedback, and grading of student submissions.
If you are an instructor, and you wish to submit student papers to Turnitin yourself (that is, students have not submitted their papers with the Turnitin option enabled in Assignments), it's best to submit the papers directly through Turnitin.com, not through Canvas.
Instructors can read a report on the matching sources of a student's submission; this is called a "similarity report." Turnitin helps prevent plagiarism by highlighting material that may have been poorly paraphrased, improperly cited, or copied from other sources. To help students learn and improve their citation, instructors can allow students to see their initial similarity report and make corrections. Both rough drafts and final versions of papers can be submitted and checked. Turnitin accepts submissions in over 30 languages and multiple file types, including PDF, docx, and pptx.
A Turnitin Similarity Report indicates overlap between the text of the submitted paper and other materials in the Turnitin database. The report indicates the percentage of overlapping material in the paper, as well as specific matching passages. Reports will usually be available within 15-60 minutes of the submission or the due date, depending on the assignment settings.
Note the following limitations:
For more, see Interpreting the Similarity Report .
Canvas integrations
For more, see Use Turnitin's Canvas Plagiarism Framework.
For more, see Use the Turnitin Feedback Studio in Canvas.
If you are unsure about which integration will best meet your needs, refer to the table below:
Feature | Plagiarism Framework | External Tool |
---|---|---|
Canvas online submission assignment | Yes | |
Canvas external tool assignment | Yes | |
Turnitin Similarity Reports | Yes | Yes |
Supports Canvas group assignments | Yes | |
Feedback using Canvas Speedgrader | Yes | Yes |
Feedback using Turnitin QuickMarks (document markup) | Yes | |
Turnitin grammar and spelling check | Yes | |
Canvas Peer Reviews | Yes | |
Turnitin PeerMark (peer reviews) | Yes | |
Differentiate assignment before students have submitted | Yes | Yes |
Differentiate assignment after students have submitted | Yes | |
Canvas rubric | Yes | Yes |
Turnitin rubric | Yes | |
Submit multiple files to a single assignment and get a report score on each one | Yes |