Quick Tip: Using Turnitin through Canvas
All faculty and students have access to the Turnitin tool through Canvas. This tool can be used to identify potential plagiarism, AI-assisted writing, and inconsistencies from what would be found in a typical paper. Turnitin can also be used to help your students check their drafts for issues before final submission.
Step 1: Create an Assignment with Turnitin
Assignments that have been created but have no submissions can be edited to add the Turnitin option. The tool can also be used as a teaching aid to help students see what they may have missed.
Step 2: Customize the Settings
- Submission indexing options
- Similarity Report exclusion options
- Changing Similarity Report availability options
If you are using the assignment as a teaching tool with multiple drafts, do not Index the Submissions. Each attempt will be compared to itself making the plagiarism score extremely high.
Step 3: Access the Report
A small tab will appear in the gradebook that corresponds to the percentage score. The entire report can be found from within SpeedGrader.
Step 4: Interpret the Report
A high score does not automatically indicate that the student plagiarized the assignment. Careful review of what is being considered in the report is very important.
Additional Resource: Academic Integrity & Plagiarism LibGuide
This guide is full of useful information regarding plagiarism. There is also a location here for students to submit their papers for review.