What is the Canvas Plagiarism Framework option?

Turnitin has worked with Canvas to develop an integration that will allow instructors to enable Turnitin within the Canvas Assignment workflow. This integration allows Turnitin to be enabled for a Canvas assignment, provides a Similarity Report and Spelling and Grammar suggestions and can be accessed via SpeedGrader. All grading and feedback is expected to be provided via SpeedGrader and Canvas rubrics can be used. For more information on comparing how Turnitin can be used either as an external tool or through the Plagiarism Framework, view our Canvas integration comparison chart.

Creating an assignment in Canvas using Turnitin’s Plagiarism Framework

• Log in to your Canvas course and Assignments in the Course Navigation. 
  • Click +Assignment. 
  • Enter the assignment name and instructions using the text editor. 
  • Specify the number of points and, if applicable, the assignment group (i.e., the group of assignments this should belong to for grading purposes). 
  • Select Online as the “Submission Type” 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). 
  • Set the number of allowed submission attempts. You will need to allow multiple submissions if you want to let students use Turnitin’s reporting as a self-check for improving their work. 
    • If the instructor is using Turnitin as a self-check tool for students, if the student resubmits an edited paper, it will not compare to the first submission they made (i.e. they will not match the text to the previous submission resulting in a 90% match score). 
  • Under “Plagiarism Review”, select Turnitin. This action will load additional Turnitin options. 
    • Choose if you would like to store the student submissions in the Turnitin repository or not and select the types of content that you would like to compare each submission against. 
    • Under “Similarity Report”, you can select if Turnitin should exclude any sources when checking student submissions. 
    • Exclude bibliographic material – 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 as a total word count or as a percentage, and you can change this setting for individual submissions later. 
    • Under “Show report to students”, choose when students can access the results of Turnitin’s report on their submission. If you are letting students, use Turnitin’s reporting as a self-check, select Immediately.  
    • If needed, check the This is a Group Assignment or Require Peer Reviews box and fill in the additional information. 
      • Group assignments will still give all students in the group access to Turnitin’s reporting. Although only one student will submit the assignment, everyone will see the report if you choose to make it available to students. 
  • You can add a due date for the assignment, which allows for late submissions in Turnitin. Alternatively, you can add availability dates and students will only be able to submit during this time frame, with no late submissions allowed. 
  • Click Save & Publish to make the assignment visible to your students. 

Some caveats 

• You cannot use it after there have been submissions. It must be set up beforehand. 
• Plagiarism Framework utilizes Canvas SpeedGrader only. Turnitin-based feedback/grading tools are not supported.
• Available to launch from Canvas SpeedGrader and indicated in the Canvas Gradebook.
• This integration works within the Canvas assignment workflow itself but does not deliver full Turnitin functionality.