Turnitin Review Features

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Overview

There are many reasons to use the new Turnitin Review for your assignments including the ease of setup of the assignment and less confusion and interruption for your students. You can create a assignment with the new Turnitin Review at any time but create it BEFORE students have submitted. 

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✅ It is much easier to set up than the external tool interface: See the Teaching with Canvas page Turnitin Review or download and print the new quick steps page. 

✅ Students submit assignments using the regular Canvas Assignment interface so everything is the same and consistent for them. However, they must check the box I agree to the tool’s End-User License agreement [1] or they will receive a warning to do so [2].

Check I agree to the submission pledge

✅ Even if the Turnitin global service is down (unexpectedly or for scheduled maintenance) or is experiencing a service “degradation”, students can continue to upload assignments because they are going through the regular Canvas interface. 

You can review Canvas assignment submissions [1] at any time and wait until the Turnitin service has been restored. 

Note! The processing icon [2] is normal as it may take up to 10 minutes to process.  If you have waited long enough you can click the Resubmit to Turnitin button [3] to try again.

Processing submitted files

✅ You can use Student View in a Turnitin assignment to submit a student paper outside a graded assignment in your course. Refer to Turnitin Student View for steps on how to do this using your Sandbox course. 

✅ Students can submit after the due date without your having to make special settings because it is a regular Canvas assignment

Late submission okay

✅ You have access to all the originality scores from previous submissions, not just the most recent. So students can submit revisions as re-submissions to the same assignment.  Click the drop arrow [1] to access current and previous submissions WITH the Turnitin scores. 

See originality scores of previous submissions

✅ Students can submit more than one file at a time [1] for a multi-document assignment. 

Students can submit more than one file at a time

and you will see originality reports [1] for each of them (PowerPoint, PDF, and Word documents are the most popular)

See originality scores for all submitted files

✅ Once you create a Canvas assignment using the new Turnitin Review you can add a Rubric later just like any Canvas assignment.  

Note! If you choose to apply the legacy Turnitin as an external tool, then the Rubric must be added ahead of time. 

See Creating Canvas Rubrics for steps to on how to create an assignment rubric.