As part of Canvas Assignments, you are able to enable the Turnitin Feedback Studio which will generate an originality report. This is a vital tool for students to be able to ensure their writing styles and referencing skills are on the right track. Turnitin helps promote critical thinking, protects academic integrity and improves students writing skills.

How does it work?

When you create a Canvas Assignment and enable Turnitin Feedback Studio, the student's submission will be checked against other students papers (stored in the Turnitin database), internet databases, Journals, Periodicals, and Publications. If it finds a text match it will be marked as a percentage. This process can take up to 24 hours but in most cases, the student will have a report within 15 minutes.

What am I looking at?

Once a student has submitted and Turnitin has produced the similarity report, staff are able to access this two ways.

Via Gradebook

Module navigation bar > Grades > locate the assignment name along the top of the table > below is an example once students have submitted assignments: you will see the Turnitin colour codes for percentages

Click the colour option > middle of the text box you will see the % > click and another tab will open in Tunritin feedback Studio (first time accessing you will be asked to agree to T's & C's)

Via SpeedGrader

Module navigation bar > assignments > open relevant assignment > left-hand side panel > SpeedGrader > left hand side of the window you will see the below information:

Click the coloured % and another tab will open in Tunritin feedback Studio (first time accessing you will be asked to agree to T's & C's)

Turnitin Feedback Studio

Once Turnitin Feedback Studio has opened you will be able to access the full details of the originality report.

The right-hand side of the page you will see the below: you have different options of viewing the %, we suggest just clicking the number

Match Overview > a breakdown fo what text matches the check has found.

If you want to look further into the text match, click the breakdown > more information will be highlighted on the paper: the source will be highlighted in a hover text box and matched to the related text in the paper.

If you want to look further into the source > click the link and you will be taken to the origin OR click to expand the text in the right-hand side panel

Interpreting the originality report

Expand the below document to help understand the colour coding of a Turnitin Feedback Studio originality report.

Reading Originality report

Further help

Once you are in the Turnitin Feedback Studio window you will see up the top right-hand corner > you will then be given the option 'Interpreting the Similarity Report' > this will open through to the Turnitin website and you can read through more information.

Any questions on Originality Report

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