Frequently Asked Question
The steps for Creating a Turnitin Assignment are below, along with some links to a recording on how to use Turnitin for creating assignments, grading, peer review, draft coach and plagiarism and originality checking.
- Please find a copy of our training recording available on Canvas Studio.
- Take a look at our website, Turnitin and AI writing, as well as our AI Writing Educator Resources, AI Writing FAQs, and AI Writing Documentation.
- Want more information about Where to next? feedback? Take a look at our blog post, "Where to next?" feedback in Turnitin Feedback Studio impacts student growth.
To create an assignment using Canvas LTI 1.3, follow these steps:
- Navigate to the Canvas course where you'd like to add the Turnitin assignment
- Navigate to the course's Assignments menu
- Select the vertical ellipsis menu icon ⋮ and select Turnitin
- Give the assignment a title and add any instructions related to the assignment
Instructions can be up to 1,000 characters in length. If instructions are edited in Canvas after the initial assignment creation, any attached files will not be shown in the instructions when displayed in Turnitin.
Fill out the assignment settings to complete the assignment setup.
- For more information about the assignment settings, see the assignment settings and optional LTI settings guidance.
- Select the Submit button to complete assignment creation.
Publish the assignment to your assignments list, so that it will be visible to your students.
The assignment can be launched from the Assignment tab in the course you created it in.
To prevent students from seeing their grades prior to the Feedback release date, you must hide the grade book column. After the Feedback release date has passed, you can show the column again to give student's their grades. You can hide the column by changing your Grade Posting Policy for the entry within Canvas.