Turnitin
Turnitin offers a suite of tools that are available inside of Canvas and used by hundreds of institutions designed to discourage and prevent plagiarism in an academic setting.
Originality verifies a student's original work while also offering instructors easy-to-use feedback tools that streamline grading. The Similarity Checker compares a student's submission to common internet sources and to submissions from their peers in the same course.
Peer Review allows students to read, comment, and learn from the feedback of their classmates as a part of the writing process!
Turnitin Features
Originality
- Dashboards provide clear and actionable data points to help prevent plagiarism and uphold academic integrity.
- Check for similarity against the Turnitin database including identify code plagiarism in student programming assignments.
- Students can be enabled to check text similarity and grammar before submission and learn proper citation style.
Feedback Studio
- Comprehensive collection of internet, academic, and student paper content ensures reliable results when checking student work.
- Drag-and-drop QuickMarks, text and voice comments, and automatic grammar checking provide personalized feedback to students.
- Rubrics help instructors consistently evaluate student work and easily connect grading criteria.
Peermark
- A peer review tool that instructors can create and setup for use within their course.
- PeerMark assignments allow students to read, review and evaluated one or many papers submitted by their classmates.
- Instructors can choose whether the reviews are anonymous or attributed.
Getting Started with Turnitin
Turnitin does not identify plagiarism but instead rates the originality of a student’s work in comparison to Turnitin’s databases, previous work submitted via Turnitin, and resources such as journals and periodicals.
How-To Guides and Training
Similar to Canvas’s "Speedgrader," the Feedback Studio feature of Turnitin offers a suite of dynamic and user-friendly tools to comment on, review, and revise student submissions.
How-To Guides and Training
PeerMark facilitates the sharing, reading, and evaluation of peer review assignments in your course. Add specific questions and focus points for review or let students read and comment freely on another’s work.
How-To Guides and Training
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