Setting up Turnitin (School dependent)
Turnitin Teacher Directions
There are two ways in which Turnitin can be used in Canvas.
- Option 1 is the full Turnitin Feedback Studio suite. This option will not show work in Speedgrader and will automatically sync grades to your Canvas gradebook.
- Option 2 is a Plagiarism-specific option that is embedded in the Assignment options. Grading is in Speedgrader with a pass-through to the Turnitin Feedback Studio.
Please find the instructions for using both below with a video of the integration.
Option 1:
- Open an ISD-created course
- Open “Assignments” from the Course Navigation
- Click the three dots next to + Assignment
- On the drop-down menu, choose Turnitin
- This will open a window for you to enter the assignment information
- Title the Assignment, enter points, instructions, and start/due date (this will pull the dates into the Canvas assignment)
- IMPORTANT - Feedback release date determines when students can see the graded feedback and score.
- Click on the optional settings button to find more controls for things like allowing late work and generating originality reports. If you want students to be able to turn in late work or multiple submissions, you must set that here. You can also attach rubrics and allow students to see originality reports here. Finally, you will want to consider choosing "Save these settings for future use" here, which will let you, you know use the same settings in the future.
- When you are all done, click the blue Submit button at the bottom of the window.
- This will close the window and return you to the Assignments page. Your assignment is now created and you can view the assignment by clicking into it where you will see the familiar Turnitin interface (list of students and submissions.)
Editing an Existing Assignment to add Turnitin Access
In order to add Turnitin to an existing assignment, you will need to copy/paste in the URL listed below:
https://lti.int.turnitin.com/launch/tfs-proxy
From the assignments tab, click on the assignment that you would like to edit, and then click on "edit settings". Scroll down to the "submission type" of the settings, and choose "external tool". Paste in the URL listed above, scroll down and click save.
Watch it in Action
Option 2:
- Open a Canvas Assignment
- Select online assignment type
- To add Turnitin, find the Plagiarism Review option and select "Turnitin LTI 2"
Options to consider:
- Storing submissions
- Comparison options
- Exclusions for similarity report
- Enabling grammar check with ETS (Turnitin's Feedback Studio grammar and spelling check)
- Additional options are available if selected
- When to have students see the report
Note - You may choose to save the options as your default setting.
Viewing & Grading
You can access assignment submissions in Speedgrader and will have the ability to see the similarity report and click on it to launch the paper in Turnitin's Feedback Studio. Students have the same color icon in their gradebook and can also view feedback from both Feedback Studio and Speedgrader.
Watch it in Action
Learn More
Turnitin – New Process for Canvas Integration
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