The integration of Turnitin Originality with Canvas LMS enables faculty to require that student submissions are scanned by the Turnitin Originality tool to identify potential originality issues (plagiarism). This article assumes that you already have one or more Turnitin-enabled assignments in your Canvas course(s) and are ready to review the originality reports for student submissions.

Summary

The integration of Turnitin Originality with Canvas LMS enables faculty to require that student submissions are scanned by the Turnitin Originality tool to identify potential originality issues (plagiarism). This article assumes that you already have one or more Turnitin-enabled assignments in your Canvas course(s) and are ready to review the originality reports for student submissions.

Environment

Canvas, Turnitin

Content

Accessing the Enhanced Similarity Report for Student Submissions

1. Click the Grades link on the course menu from anywhere in your Canvas course.
2. In the Gradebook, locate the student submission you want to review and click the submission icon to select it. NOTE: You can quickly identify assignment submissions with Turnitin originality reports by using a colored (e.g., yellow, green, red) square in the upper right corner of the grade cell.
3. Click the right-pointing arrow to open the Grading Panel for the submission.
4. Click the SpeedGrader button to continue on the resulting grading panel.
5. In the right panel of the SpeedGrader screen, locate and click the Turnitin originality score icon that appears under Submitted Files.
6. A new browser tab containing the Turnitin Enhanced Originality Report for the student’s submission will open. You can switch between viewing the Canvas SpeedGrader screen and this originality report by clicking their respective browser tabs. After reviewing the originality report, close its tab to return to Canvas. NOTE: To learn more about the report and how to interpret and use it, we’ve provided several resources in the next section of this support document.

Turnitin Enhanced Originality Report Resources

The following resources by Turnitin provide excellent starting points for anyone wanting to understand how to interpret and use the reports. NOTE: Vendors do sometimes update their support resources. If one or more of these links are not working, please notify the OIT Support Center at SupportCenter@uhcl.edu so we can update this information.

• Interactive Self-Guided Tour
• Educator Guide - Understanding the Turnitin Similarity Report: The New Experience
• [Video] Understanding Text Similarity for Instructors: Enhanced Similarity Report [8:37]
• Turnitin Support Page: New Similarity Report Resource Center

Need Additional Help?

On behalf of OIT’s Instructional Design and Technology (IDT) team, we hope this tutorial is useful. If you encounter any difficulties or have questions related to this procedure, please contact our colleagues in OIT’s Support Center to have a help ticket created and assigned to the IDT team. You may contact the Support Center via email (supportcenter@uhcl.edu) or by telephone (281.283.2828). 

Once we receive your inquiry, a member of the IDT team will contact you as quickly as resources permit.