This article is for Faculty who want to detect AI generated text in students' submissions. Note that Turnitin's AI detection tool is only accessible for faculty. Faculty cannot enable student viewing of the AI detection report at this time. The AI detection tool is available for faculty use as of 3/19/25. Any work submitted to Turnitin prior to 3/19/25 must be resubmitted in Turnitin to generate an AI detection report. Turnitin recommends faculty interpret AI detection report data only for English language prose, paragraphs - not for lists, outlines, short questions or poetry.
Article Overview
1. Accessing Turnitin's AI Detection Report Via Canvas
1.1. Select the name of the assignment that uses Turnitin.
Will only need to open SpeedGrader if using the Turnitin Plagiarism Review Tool. If you're using the Turnitin LTI assignment, you can open the assignment and click on the similarity score.
1.2. Select SpeedGrader On the Right to Open the Student's Submission.
1.3. Select the Colored Box for the Similarity Score to Open the Student's Submission in Turnitin.
1.4. View the Student's Submission in Turnitin in an External Window
Note the caution message that can be seen when hovering your cursor over the blue AI badge in Feedback studio.
The example showin in this article has been generated 100% in ChatGPT, copied into a Word document, and uploaded into a Turnitin assignment. Regarding student submissions, heed Turnitin's warnings about the limitations of AI detection before jumping to conclusions. Read Turnitin's AI Writing Detection Capabilities before relying on the tool extensively.
2. Viewing the AI Detection Report
2.1. Inside Turnitin's Feedback Studio Select the Blue AI Badge to Launch the AI Report
2.2. Blue Highlighted Text has been Determined to be AI Generated
Select the links Turnitin provides on the right hand panel to learn more about their tool's capabilities to detect AI generated writing.
3. Interpreting the AI Detection Report's Findings
Turnitin recommends faculty conduct an in-person writing diagnostic to obtain hand-written samples of student's work to compare against any AI detected results of a student's submission that may arise.
Notice the headings in the image below are not highlighted in blue and flagged as AI generated. Even though these headings were generated from ChatGPT along with their subsequent sections, Turnitin can only identify "blocks of text that are written in standard grammatical [English] sentences" as AI generated text with 98% confidence. Turnitin's AI detection will not flag poetry, all types of lists, and any other non-sentence structures.
Please be aware that Turnitin's AI detection is an evolving technology and results from the tool should be used with caution. AI detection software tools can inaccurately flag a student's original writing as AI generated text.
Use Turnitin's AI detection as one tool in your bag to interpret student's work, while also considering your relationship with individual students and your knowledge of their hand-written writing capabilities assessed via a hand-written writing diagnostic completed prior to them submitting written work online in Turnitin.
To learn more from Turnitin about their AI detection feature please read/watch the following:
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