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Turnitin is a tool to detect plagiarism and provide feedback to students and the instructor. Turnitin ensures original work by checking submitted papers against 14 billion web pages, 150 million student papers, and leading library databases and publications.

Turnitin works with Canvas Assignments. Turnitin will also produce a grammar report, identifying opportunities to improve grammar and usage.

The following videos provide more information about how to submit a Canvas assignment through Turnitin, how to view a Origniality Report for your written assignments, and how to navigate the grammar and spell-check functions in Turnitin.

How to Submit an Assignment through Turnitin

How to Read the Originality Report

A Note About Your Originality Report

The similarity score does not show the percentage of plagiarized content in a student’s paper. The similarity score is just a percentage of material in the paper that matches sources in the Turnitin databases. Whether or not this content is plagiarised will generally require more review -- this offers a great opportunity to sit down with a reference librarian or a writing tutor, discuss your Originality Report, and review your paper for proper citation.

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