Plagiarism – Center for Teaching Excellence

Creating, editing, and reviewing a turnitin assignment

Create your Turnitin Assignment

Navigate to the Assignments module in Canvas.
Select the three dot menu located next to the + Assignment button.
Select Turnitin from the dropdown menu.

Note: If this is your first time creating a Turnitin Assignment for your course, you may be prompted to accept the end user license agreement.

Configure Your Turnitin Assignment Settings

Make any adjustments as needed to your Turnitin Assignment. Review the Turnitin settings documentation to learn more about configuring your Turnitin Assignment.
- Additional settings can be located by clicking on the Optional Settings cog.
- Click the Submit button.

2. Make any adjustments to the remaining Canvas assignment settings as desired including updating instructions and due dates. To access Canvas settings, select the three dot icon next to the Assignment, and click Edit.

3. Click Save when done or Save & Publish to make the assignment available to students.

Which Browsers Work Best with Turnitin?

You can use Turnitin on these browsers:

Chrome
Firefox
Safari
Microsoft Edge

If Turnitin isn’t loading, try these steps:

Switch Browsers: Sometimes, just using a different browser can solve the issue.
Private Browsing Mode: This can help bypass any temporary issues.
Clear Your Cache: This can fix many problems, but be aware it might delete saved passwords, so you may need to log in again.

The Similarity Report

Previously, an instructor used to be able to go into Speedgrader to access the similarity reports for their students. Turnitin is working to make this available again, but currently it is not available with the latest integration update. Below you will find the steps that you will need to take to access the similarity reports for your students.

Navigate back to the Assignment Module in Canvas.
Locate and click on your Turnitin Assignment from the list.
This will automatically open up the Turnitin Assignment Inbox, displaying all student submissions and their associated Similarity Score.
Select the Similarity Score to open the Turnitin Viewer.

More detailed information about reading, filtering and interpreting the Similarity Report is available on the Turnitin Similarity Report guide.

Note: If you have enabled Show originality report to students, students will be able to view their Originality Report when it has been made available by clicking the icon in Gradebook.

Note: As Canvas may not immediately notify Turnitin that an assignment has been created, we advise waiting 90 seconds between creating the assignment and making the first submission. This will allow Canvas to notify Turnitin that the assignment has been created.

Turnitin AI Detection

The AI writing indicator that has been added to the Similarity Report will show an overall percentage of the document that may have been AI-generated. We make this determination with 98% confidence based on data that was collected and verified in our AI Innovation Lab.

The AI writing report contains the overall percentage of prose sentences contained in a long-form writing format within the submitted document that Turnitin’s model determines was generated by AI. These sentences are highlighted in blue on the submission text in the AI writing report.

The percentage, generated by Turnitin’s AI writing detection model, is different and independent from the similarity score, and the AI writing highlights are not visible in the Similarity Report.

Turnitin’s AI writing detection model only highlights text that is highly likely to be AI-generated. This is to help ensure that students are treated fairly whilst safeguarding the institution’s academic integrity standards.

Workshop Recording: Brief History of ChatGPT and Turnitin’s AI Detection

Note: We must stress that the percentage is interpretive and should not be used as a definitive measure of misconduct or punitive tool. Instructors should use this indicative percentage to help them decide how to best handle work that may have been produced or partially produced by AI writing tools

Creating, editing, and reviewing a turnitin assignment

Create your Turnitin Assignment

Configure Your Turnitin Assignment Settings

The Similarity Report

Turnitin AI Detection

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