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Identify unoriginal content with the world’s most effective plagiarism detection solution. When enabled for a Canvas assignment, Turnitin compares student submissions against their database, and if there are instances where a student's writing is similar to, or matches against, one of their sources, they will flag this for you to review. Their database includes billions of web pages: both current and archived content from the internet, a repository of works students have submitted to Turnitin in the past, and a collection of documents, which comprises thousands of periodicals, journals, and publications.

Features:

  • Integrated in Canvas assignments (text entry and file upload)
  • Similiarity report score shows in Canvas SpeedGrader and Gradebook
  • Instructors decide if/when to show reports to students
  • Automatically check grammar with the ETS e-rater technology
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Instructors

All instructors have access to use Turnitin inside of the Canvas Learning Management System (LMS). Instructors can enable Turnitin, with or without AI detection, within a Canvas assignment’s settings.

Learn more about how Instructors can enable Turnitin for a Canvas assignment.

Students

Students have access to Turnitin when an instructor chooses to use it through a Canvas assignment. If an instructor enables students to view the similarity report, you can access the findings from within Canvas.

Learn how students can access the similarity report.

 

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