Canvas: Create Turnitin Similarity Assignment

Overview

Turnitin Similarity is the University of Tennessee, Knoxville's originality and plagiarism prevention service. It is intended to deter plagiarism and promote academic integrity. Turnitin Similarity is a tool that can help students learn how to properly use citations and paraphrasing in their papers which can help students produce original work. Turnitin Similarity can be accessed through Online@UT (Canvas).

Instructions

Create a Canvas Assignment using Turnitin Similarity:

1. Select Assignments from the Canvas course navigation menu.
    
2. Select the plus (+) Assignment button to add an assignment.
   
    
3. To add Turnitin Similarity to your assignment, scroll down to the assignment Submission Type and make sure Online is selected using the drop-down menu. Then select the File Uploads or Text entry check boxes under Online Entry Options. The Turnitin feature is limited to these two Online entry options.
   
    

Customize Turnitin Similarity Settings

1. Scroll down to the Plagiarism Review section and select Turnitin Similarity from the drop-down menu.
   
   1. Under the heading Exclude from Similarity Reports, choose from the exclusion options or leave them blank if you do not want any exclusions. Turnitin provides more information for Customizing the Similarity Report.
   2. For Submission Indexing, use the check box to choose whether to index all submissions. An unchecked check box will still return a Similarity Report, but the papers submitted to the course will not be matched against any future submissions. Turnitin's Submission Indexing Options provides more information.
   3. Choose from the Similarity Report generation options under the Generate Similarity Reports heading.
      • The Immediately and on due date option generates a Similarity Report at the time of submission and on the assignment due date. Turnitin recommends this option as it allows for a collusion check within your class.
      • The Immediately option generates a Similarity Report at the time of submission.
   4. Choose an option for how to Show reports to students from the drop-down menu.
      • The Never option makes the Similarity Report unavailable to students, but it will be available to instructors after submission.
      • The After the due date option makes the Similarity Report available to students as soon as the assignment's due date passes.
      • The After the assignment is graded option makes the Similarity Report available to students when their assignment is graded.
      • The Immediately option makes the Similarity Report available to students upon submission to Canvas. Changing Similarity Report availability options provide more information on the topic.
2. Set the assignment due dates and select Save & Publish to publish the assignment, or select Save to save the assignment without publishing.