Turnitin continues being a beneficial measure for students to improve their writing skills and understand plagiarism. Not only does it provide a way of knowing when and how much a student is plagiarizing on an assignment, but it also eases the workload for teachers when grading large amounts of papers and checking for similarity. Furthermore, Turnitin uses an up-to-date repository comprised of internet pages, student-submitted papers, and scholarly articles to ensure that student submissions are compared in the most applicable way possible.
Below are a few links to FAQs where you can find instructor and student guides on how to use Turnitin within Canvas. Also,
look out for future posts about the new Turnitin Draft Coach tool which allows users to generate Similarity Scores for their Google Docs without having to submit a Canvas assignment. This will give students a chance to check their papers without turning them in to their assignments before deadlines. It also gives teachers and researchers a chance to check their own work for plagiarism issues or mistakes.
Check out our Turnitin info in our Canvas Additional Tools page.
Finally, for questions about Turnitin, Draft Coach, or any Canvas feature/tool, feel free to check out our calendar of workshops and webinars or book an appointment with our team of experts by using our appointment scheduler.
Instructor FAQs:
- How do I create an assignment?
- How do I set similarity report availability?
- How do I customize an similarity report?
- How do I access a similarity report?
Student FAQs:
- How do I submit an assignment?
- How do I interpret my similarity score?
- How to use the search feature on my similarity report?
- Why is most of my text not highlighted on my similarity report but my score is high?