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Turnitin

Turnitin is a tool that combines plagiarism-prevention and grading feedback. Instructors can view originality reports and provide comments while grading assignments. This streamlined user interface offers students a clearer sense of how to improve their assignments. Feedback Studio includes the following features:

  • Originality – Pattern recognition algorithms instantly check student papers for potential plagiarism.
  • GradeMark – Efficiently evaluate student work with direct marks and saved comments.
  • AI Detection –  Help faculty identify when AI writing tools such as ChatGPT have been used in students’ submissions.

For more information, refer to the following documentations provided by Turnitin.

Turnitin Online Tutorials provided by Turnitin

Turnitin FAQs

Below you'll find answers to commonly asked questions about Turnitin. If you have additional questions, please reach out to your Instructional Technologist or the ITS Service Desk.

  • Turnitin does not check for plagiarism. Instead, it checks a student's work against a database. If there are instances in which a student's writing is similar to, or matches against, a source in this database, the submission will be flagged this for review. The database includes billions of web pages (current and archived), a repository of works students have submitted to Turnitin in the past, and a collection of documents comprising thousands of periodicals, journals, and publications.

    Similarity Reports provide a summary of matching or highly similar text found in a submitted paper. When a Similarity Report is available for viewing, a similarity score percentage will be made available. It is perfectly natural for an assignment to match against some material in the database. If a student has used quotes and referenced correctly, there will be matches. The similarity score simply highlights any problem areas in a student's paper; you can then use this as an investigative tool, in order to determine if the match is acceptable.

  • Turnitin is integrated into Brightspace and can be calibrated from the Assignments menu. When creating a submission folder for students to submit work, instructors will now see a Turnitin sub-menu, where they can activate Turnitin for specific assignment submissions.

    1. Click Assessment > Assignments from the Navigation Bar.
    2. Click the New Assignment
    3. Add a Name for the assignment in the space provided.
    4. Set remaining assignment options as desired.
    5. Click the Turnitin menu tab at the top of the Edit Assignment panel.
    6. Check the box for "Enable Similarity Report for this folder". Select other options as you see fit.
    7. Click Save and Close to complete the Assignment creation.

    Additional Options:

    • Frequency: Decide whether to automatically create a Similarity Report for all submissions or have only specific submissions checked.
    • Check submissions against: Choose the resources to which student papers will be compared.
    • Index files for Similarity Checking: When checked, any paper submitted to the assignment folder will be added to Turnitin's database of student papers.
    • Grammar Check Settings: Turnitin will also check grammar and other categories listed under this setting.

  • Use of Turnitin is at the instructor's discretion and is not required. As always, we encourage faculty to select and use academic technologies that support their individual teaching and learning objectives. While Turnitin is a tool that many faculty will adopt as a means of providing student feedback, peer reviews, and originality reports, there is no campus mandate regarding Turnitin, and faculty are encouraged to pursue alternate methods for assessing and critiquing student work if they elect not to use Turnitin.

  • Explore the following online tutorials to learn more about Turnitin.