Using Turnitin for Assignment Submissions
Setting up a Turnitin assignment
Follow the recommended process for assignment set up in Canvas. This will allow students to immediately see their Turnitin report once they have submitted their assignment. Please ensure students can make multiple submissions. The University Academic Integrity Policy document states:
Program Convenors and Assistant Dean (Teaching and Learning)s are responsible for ensuring that mechanisms are in place to provide students with education about academic integrity, including (but not limited to) compulsory Academic Integrity Module (AIM)s and the use of electronic text-matching software as a learning tool, where appropriate https://policies.newcastle.edu.au/document/view-current.php?id=35
Viewing a Turnitin report
When an assignment has been set up with Turnitin, the similarity score will be available via Grades and SpeedGrader. You will be able to click into the similarity report for a more detailed view of the overall score. Turnitin has created a resource to assist in interpreting the Similarity report.
The AI writing detection feature is only available from within the Turnitin report. It does not display from within the Canvas interface and is not available to students. You will need to click through from the relevant student submission’s similarity score in Canvas to open it in Turnitin Feedback Studio. The AI indicator will appear on the side panel and after a short period of processing will display one of three states. Please refer to Turnitin’s AI Writing Detection guide for information on the states. Submissions need to have at least 300 words of prose text for the AI detection to apply. The AI writing detection model may not always be accurate.
What does a Turnitin report look like?
(1) Assignment Title and Student Name.
(2) Overall percentage of text found in Turnitin sources.
(3) Original assignment with Matches text highlighted.
(4) Key for colour coded and numbered sources in matched text
(5) Highlighted text that has been flagged by Turnitin as matching another source. Click the highlighted text to see the matched text in the source material.
(6) Additional features of the Turnitin report are available here. For example, you can filter the report to exclude specific matches, exclude the bibliography, or ignore small matches.
What does the AI Writing report look like?
(1) If you need to download a copy of the report, to share with staff or the student, click the button.
(2) The overall AI writing report score is displayed along with links to additional resources to assist in interpreting what the report means.
(3) Turnitin highlights the text its AI writing detection model determines was generated by AI.
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