Canvas: Turnitin Overview

Turnitin (TII) provides originality checking and plagiarism prevention services, ensuring original work from students and safeguarding the value of writing, including options to check student writing for citation mistakes or inappropriate copying. Turnitin's Feedback Studio is available for Canvas assignments.

Important things to note about using TII's Feedback Studio for Canvas assignments:

  • TII's Feedback Studio cannot be retroactively added to an assignment. If you decide to use Feedback Studio after students have submitted their assignments, you will need to create a new assignment and ask the students to submit their assignments there.
  • TII's Feedback Studio assignment submissions are not displayed in Canvas's Speedgrader. Instructors must grade and provide feedback on submissions in Turnitin Feedback Studio. See the Grading and feedback section of the instructor guide for how to use the grading tools.
  • Instructors are not able to use Canvas assignment rubrics or be able to provide feedback on submissions in SpeedGrader with Turnitin assignments. They can use a rubric within the Turnitin interface. See Creating a rubric or assignment form during assignment creation. 
  • Although a TII Feedback Studio submission indicator is displayed in the Canvas gradebook, the report score icon will no longer be displayed there. Be sure to provide students with the Viewing your grade and feedback section of Turnitin's student guide so that students can see their grade and feedback. 

Using TII's Feedback Studio with a Canvas Assignment

  1. From the Canvas course menu on the left, select Assignments.
    Canvas course menu

  2. Select the 3 dot ellipsis next to the Add assignment button, and select Turnitin from the dropdown menu
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  3. Fill out the assignment information in the Turnitin window that opens over the Canvas course area.
    Turnitin assignment window with fields for title, instructions, max grade, start date, due date, feedback release date and optional setting

  4. Select Optional settings.

  5. Select the Turnitin options you want to use for generating Similarity Reports. (If you want students to see their similarity report for this assignment, be sure to check that first selection box option.)
    Canvas Turnitin window

  6. At the top of the list is a drop-down menu that includes the choice to allow student re-submissions. The default setting is to allow only one submission and NO re-submissions! Most instructors are wanting the second choice in the menu.
    "Generate reports immediately (students can resubmit until the due date)."
    Allow multiple student submissions

  7. Select both Save these settings for future use and Submit near the bottom of the screen to save the Turnitin settings.

Turnitin Feedback Studio

The Turnitin Feedback Studio allows instructors to view, comment on, and grade student submissions. See the instructor guide, Navigation in the Turnitin Feedback Studio (Turnitin) for more information on how to use the tool.

Interpreting the Similarity Reports

View and interpret similarity reports for student submissions.

Grading

Grades entered in Turnitin are transferred to the Canvas gradebook. See the Grading Tools resource. Although a Turnitin submission indicator will still be displayed in the Canvas gradebook, the report score icon will no longer be displayed. Be sure to provide students with the Viewing your grade and feedback section of Turnitin's student guide so that students can see their grade and feedback. 

AI Writing Indicator

AI Writing Indicator is not enabled for the University of Minnesota.

Additional Resources

Canvas: Turnitin with Canvas for Instructors (Turnitin)

Canvas for Students: Turnitin Guide

Canvas: Turnitin for Students (Turnitin)

Turnitin Status Page (communicates any tool outages or other big issues going on with Turnitin)

 

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