Turnitin can be added directly to a Canvas course using the Assignment tool. When Turnitin is added to Canvas, students’ Turnitin accounts are automatically created. Students submit their documents through the Turnitin assignment in their Canvas course.
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A feature request for using Turnitin on Canvas discussions is under review: . In the meantime, you can navigate to a discussion, select the entire page (ctrl A on Windows; Command A on Mac). Next, use Submitting via quick submit on Turnitin's website and paste in the text.
It is not possible to use the Turnitin LTI (or any other external tool submission) with a Canvas group assignment; the option to assign to a group disappears as soon as "External Tool" is selected as the submission type. I have a question that is not answered here.
If an instructor accessed Turnitin for the first time in the LTI and then later had a desire or need to access information in the web interface at Turnitin.com, the instructor can go through the forgotten password process at Turitin.com to set up a password and then can begin to use the webinterface.
Turnitin is well known for plagiarism and integrates with Canvas when an institution purchases a Trurnitin subscription. Many instructors rely on Turnitin.com services for plagiarism education, prevention, and detection.
Set up a Canvas Assignment to use Turnitin Originality Checker 1 Check "Load This Tool In A New Tab" (The Plagiarism Framework option will no longer be visible in the assignment settings) 2 Click Save (wait to publish) 3 Open the assignment and click “Load [ assignment name] in a new window." 4 Click on the Setting icon to complete the Turnitin settings 5 See Turnitin instructions for Basic Assignment Settings and Optional Settings
Click Save (wait to publish) Open the assignment and click “Load [ assignment name] in a new window.". Click on the Setting icon to complete the Turnitin settings. See Turnitin instructions for Basic Assignment Settings and Optional Settings.
Turnitin's Similarity Report (formerly called the Originality Checker) is integrated into Canvas as an external tool. By integrating this tool with any Canvas assignment an originality report is generated for each student submission.
Turnitin should be added to the assignment when you create it; however, if an assignment does not yet have any submissions, you can edit the assignment and add Turnitin.
Revision Assistant functions as an 'App' within Canvas. You will have to add Revision Assistant as an App before using Revision Assistant in your course. This means that you will have to add Revision Assistant as an External Learning Tool from the Course Admin page before you can make and assign prompts. You can add Revision Assistant as an App by ...
Once you have Revision Assistant set up as an App, you can launch the program and peruse and assign a Revision Assistant prompt. Here's how to do that:
3. The launch url is provided by Turnitin and is the same for all institutions. The launch url for Turnitin UK Users is https://submit.ac.uk/api/lti/1p0/assignment.
The oldest Turnitin integration with canvas is known as the API integration. Currently, Turnitin is phasing out this older integration, but still offers support to schools who are not having a good experience with the LTI.
Yes! All of the major Turnitin features are present in the LTI version, including originality reports and grading (with reusable comments, rubrics, etc.) through Feedback Studio, e-rater (automated comments), grade anything (PowerPoint Excel, etc.), peer review (in Peermark), i os app, and cloud submit.
No one absolutely needs to create a separate Turnitin account. The tool uses the email address in the user's Canvas profile as an identifier, and log in from Canvas is seamless even for first time users. However, the instructor cannot use the Canvas test student for testing the LTI tool because the test student does not include a profile and email address. When I started using the LTI, I had a previous Turnitin account under the same email my Canvas profile uses, so the tool recognized me and put all submissions into my preexisting account.
Turnitin has offered varying answers on this question. The latest answer is yes. In an email sent to local Turnitin instructors on 4-11-2016, Turnitin states, "For those who are wondering, it is possible to run the legacy Canvas integration and Canvas LTI integration in parallel during the transition period."
There are multiple sets of instructions with varying levels of detail for local canvas Administrators on the Turnitin website . Here is the best set of instructions, and here is the current configuration of the Turnitin LTI at the account level for my school:
Thankfully, Turnitin is listening and refining Feedback Studio. As of early 2017, the ability to search for quick marks while grading has been restored.