Turnitin (Staff Guide)

Turnitin is LJMU's plagiarism detection and text matching tool.

It matches any assignment submission against a number of sources, including the internet, a number of journals and other academic institutions.

The Turnitin Framework allows you to link seamlessly with Turnitin. This method offers improved reliability since work is accessible in the core system (Canvas) even if Turnitin is unavailable. Tutors can therefore continue to mark submissions and students can access their feedback and marks during unscheduled periods of Turnitin downtime.

There is an online Academic Misconduct Quiz that can be added to any module which helps students to understand plagiarism. If you would like to know more contact the Teaching and Learning Academy via LJMUHelpMe.

Turnitin initially runs an originality report against external sources when a student submits before the due date. It does not match against other students' submissions within the assignment. Once the due date is reached a secondary analysis is performed and this looks for matches within the assignment folder between other student submissions for evidence of collusion. The overall matches are then added to the report.

Guides

• Staff Guide - Create a Canvas Assignment and add Turnitin Plagiarism Options
• Overview of the new Similarity Report experience
• Canvas Assessment

Turnitin Framework

The Turnitin framework tool allows students to submit their assignments into the Canvas interface, with TII working invisibly in the background. Tutors can quickly create assignments which displays both TII and Canvas assignment settings on the same page.

Turnitin runs a similarity check on the paper submission date, then reruns the similarity check on the due date; this checks for collusion between students in the same class. If the similarity score updates after the similarity check on the due date, the new score is not sent to Canvas.

Grading

There is no Turnitin assignment box—Canvas’s interface for handling assignments, grading is done in SpeedGrader, not inside Turnitin’s Feedback Studio.  

Post grade policies

Once an assignment has a policy that has been set to manual, students are unable to view their originality report.  You should provide students with the opportunity to review the originality report before the assignment is hidden for marking.

You will need to post grades once you have finished marking to ensure that students receive their marks, feedback and access their originality report. 

Training

You may be interested in attending one of our training sessions. The Teaching and Learning Academy provide a wide range of Technology Enhanced Learning training. Take a look at our Training Page for further information.