This article is for faculty who want to set up a gradable Turnitin assignment that students can submit to in Canvas.
Article Overview
1. Create an Assignment
Select the course in which you would like to create your assignment.
From the left-hand navigation, select Modules. The Modules tab can be found in the Course Navigation to the left in Canvas.
Select the + Module button and enter a name for the module in the box provided.
Choose the module to add the assignment to and click the plus symbol to the right of that module.
Choose to add an Assignment and Create Assignment. Give the new assignment a name and finally Add Item.
2. Change the Assignment Submission Type to Online
Open the assignment by clicking on its name inside of the module. Next, edit the assignment by clicking on the Edit button on the top right.
Choose Online as the submission type by clicking on the dropdown box, and then choose Text Entry or File Uploads (or both). Next, choose the number of submission attempts you want to give to your students.
If you want to ensure that students are submitting file in which Turnitin can generate a similarity report, choose to Restrict Upload File Types to readable text files such as pdf, doc, docx, pptx, etc.
3. Modify Assignment Settings for Turnitin
Select Turnitin from the Plagiarism Review drop-down menu.
Choose to store papers in the repository or not, choose to which repositories you want to compare the submissions, choose to exclude the bibliography, quoted material, translated matching (if enabled), and small sources as needed.
Choose to add e-rater spelling and grammar suggestions to the submissions.
Choose if you would like to Save these settings as default settings and when you want to show the originality report to students.
Choose if this is going to be a Group Assignment, if you want to use Canvas Peer Review, and if you want to enable Anonymous Grading.
Assign this to Everyone or Everyone Else to ensure the due date is reflected in Turnitin. Choose a Due Date, Available from date, and an Until date as needed.
It is best practice to enter in a due date for collusion check to occur. On the due date of the assignment, all submissions are compared against one another to check for collusion.
Select Save and publish to publish this assignment. Select Save to save the assignment.
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