How do I create and grade a TurnItIn assignment?
Answer
Create an Assignment
TurnItIn is JMU’s plagiarism detector within Canvas. To enable TurnItIn on an assignment, you will want to create an assignment.
Edit Submission Type
After creating an assignment, you will need to edit the submission type of the assignment to Online.
Choose Type of Online Submission
Selecting “Text Entry” and/or “File Uploads” will allow you to enable Plagiarism Review.
Enable TurnItIn
The Plagiarism Review option is located below Submission Type and Submission Attempts. Change the drop-down bar for Plagiarism Review from None to TurnItIn to see the comparisons you can make to check for plagiarism. Leaving these settings to default should be fine for most cases.
Save Assignment
Select Save or Save & Publish once you are done editing your assignment.
Interpreting TurnItIn in the Gradebook
TurnItIn will display a grey box when TurnItIn scores are processing. That will change to blue, green, yellow, orange, or red depending on how much of the document TurnItIn believes has been plagiarized. Learn more by consulting this Interpreting the Similarity Report page from TurnItIn.
TurnItIn in the Speedgrader
Viewing a student’s TurnItIn submission in the speedgrader will display a percentage for how much of the document TurnItIn considers plagiarized.
Viewing the Originality Report
Clicking on the percentage will bring up the originality report on TurnItIn’s website. You can view where TurnItIn says plagiarism occurred, how much, and from where the source for that Plagiarism may have come from. For more information on navigating TurnItIn’s website please refer to their Feedback Studio Instructor page.