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Adding a Turnitin Assignment
Turnitin assignments allow instructors to collect work from students and have that work checked against other student papers, the Internet, and journals/periodicals/publications. Each student submission receives an Originality Report with the results of these checks.
There are two ways to add a Turnitin assignment in Canvas. If you have QuickMarks or Rubrics that you have previously built directly in Turnitin (not built in Canvas) that you would like to use, you can use the External Tool/LTI method. Please note that the External Tool method does not work with groups or peer review. If you do not have any QuickMarks or Rubrics within Turnitin that you wish to reuse, or you want to use groups or peer review, then we recommend you use the built-in plagiarism framework method.
Adding a Turnitin Assignment via the Plagiarism Framework
Note: QuickMarks and Turnitin Rubrics are not available when using the plagiarism framework. You will do all the grading and feedback in the Canvas Speedgrader. The Speedgrader does allow for , there is a , and you can .
- In your Canvas course, go to the Assignments Index Page by clicking on Assignments in the course navigation.
- Click the +Assignment button in the upper right.
- Give your assignment a name and enter any instructions in the text box.
- Set the Point Value, Assignment Group, and "Display Grade as" settings.
- Set the Submission Type to Online and check the box for File Uploads and/or Text Entry.
- Scroll down to the Plagiarism Review section and set the drop down to 鈥Turnitin-Plagiarism Framework.鈥
- Enable any desired Turnitin-specific settings.
- If this is a group assignment, check the box and designate the Group Set.
- Set the Due Date and availability dates.
- Select 鈥Save & Publish.鈥
Adding a Turnitin Assignment via External Tool
Tool updated in Fall 2024
Warning: If your Turnitin assignment has not been created fresh since before Fall 2024 (it
has just been imported/copied each term), you may experience an issue with grades
failing to pass back from Turnitin to Canvas. This issue can only be resolved by manually
inputting the grades into Canvas. To avoid this issue you will need to create your
Turnitin assignments fresh next term. This only needs to be done once per assignment,
after that you can continue to copy/import into future terms.
Note: If you do not have built-in Quickmarks or Turnitin Rubrics that you need to use,
we recommend using the plagiarism framework instead.
- In your Canvas course, go to the Assignments Index Page by clicking on Assignments in the course navigation.
- Click on the three dots in the upper right of the page (at the very top - to the right of the +Assignment blue button).
- From the dropdown menu, choose "Turnitin"
- Let the pop-up window load.
- Set the Title (name), Instructions, Max Grade, Start Date, Due Date, and Feedback Release Date.
- Click "Optional Settings" at the bottom if you need to change any additional settings. Keep in mind if you wish to allow late submissions, resubmissions, or allow students to view their own Originality Report then those settings must be enabled here (they are not enabled by default).
- When ready, click the blue Submit button at the bottom of the window.
- Your new Turnitin assignment will be listed as unpublished on your Assignments page. You will need to manually publish for students to be able to see it and submit to it. You may also need to move it to the appropriate assignment group.
Note: Do not set an availability end date in the assignment settings (in Canvas) as that will prevent students from viewing your feedback when released.