Turnitin
What is Turnitin?
Turnitin is the global leader in evaluating student work. The company’s cloud-based service for originality checking, online grading and peer review saves instructors time and provides rich feedback to students. One of the most widely distributed educational applications in the world, Turnitin is used by more than 10,000 institutions in 135 countries to manage the submission, tracking and evaluation of student work online.
How Do I Create a Turnitin Assignment?
Instructors can enable Turnitin as part of a new Canvas assignment. Turnitin is enabled on a per-assignment basis in Canvas. Review the following video for details on how instructors create Turnitin assignment in Canvas.
There is a Canvas guide on the subject. Click here Links to an external site. to access it.
How do you change Turnitin settings for an assignment?
Click here Links to an external site. to review the Canvas guide.
How do you grade Turnitin assignment in SpeedGrader?
Click here Links to an external site. to review the Canvas guide.
How do students submit assignment using Turnitin?
It is also important to be able to help students use the Turnitin tool. Review the following video for details on how students submit a document to a Turnitin assignment in Canvas:
Over a period of time a number of frequently asked questions have been collected concerning Turnitin and Canvas. Click the following link to review the Canvas guide:
Turnitin and Canvas FAQs
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How do you use Turnitin as a StandAlone service outside of Canvas?
You would want to do this if you do not use Canvas for your class or if you have difficulty with access.
Click to access this document Links to an external site. on how to make it happen. On that page, find and click on "Using Turnitin.com"
The same reference also has a number of helpful instructions and explanations on using Turnitin features in Canvas:
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Resources:
https://vimeo.com/155202655
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https://vimeo.com/155202201
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http://turnitin.com/en_us/what-we-offer/faqs
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