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You can use Turnitin on its own or by setting up an assignment in Canvas with plagiarism review enabled. The tool checks each student’s submission for possible matches with the papers in Turnitin’s databases and flags any matching content for you to review.

Creating an assignment in Canvas using Turnitin’s Plagiarism Framework

Set up a Turnitin assignment in Canvas

Turnitin in Canvas is enabled in the settings of each assignment. Any written work submitted to that Canvas assignment as a file or text entry will be automatically analyzed by Turnitin to identify similarities or other flags that need review.

1. Log in to your Canvas course and click Assignments in the Course Navigation.
2. Click +Assignment.
3. Enter the assignment name and instructions using the text editor.
4. For “Submission Type”, select Online and check Text Entry and/or File Uploads, depending on how you would like students to submit their work.
   • To ensure file uploads are compatible with Turnitin, you can also check Restrict Upload File Types and specify the accepted extensions as one or more of the text files that are readable by Turnitin (e.g., pdf, doc, docx).
5. Set the number of allowed submission attempts. To let students use Turnitin’s reports to improve their own work, you will need to allow unlimited submissions.
6. Under “Plagiarism Review”, select Turnitin. This action will load additional Turnitin options.
7. Choose if you would like to store the student submissions in the Turnitin repository, and select the types of content you would like to compare each submission against.
8. Under “Similarity Report”, you can select if Turnitin should exclude specific sources when checking student submissions.
   • Exclude bibliographic materials – Excludes checking text that appears in the bibliography, works cited, or references sections of student submissions.
   • Exclude quoted materials – Excludes checking text that appears within quotes in the student submissions.
   • Exclude small sources – Excludes matches that have a small amount in common with a student’s writing. You can set the match length default as a total word count or as a percentage. This setting can be changed for individual submissions later.
9. Under “Show report to students”, choose when students can access the Turnitin report for their submission. If you are letting students use Turnitin to check their own work, select Immediately.
10. If needed, check the This is a Group Assignment and/or Require Peer Reviews boxes and fill in the additional information.
11. You can add a due date for the assignment to allow for late submissions in Turnitin. Alternatively, you can add availability dates and students will only be able to submit during this period, with no late submissions allowed.
12. Click Save & Publish to make the assignment visible to your students.

Information provided by CTLT.