Turnitin

Turnitin allows instructors to identify potential cases of plagiarism and AI use in assignment submissions.

Turnitin is only available for assignments in UB Learns.

Enabling Turnitin in an Assignment

Instructors can enable Turnitin after students have submitted assignments. If enabled after submissions have happened, instructors will have to click the icon in the Turnitin Similarity Report column for each student to generate reports.

  1. On the assignment edit page, click Evaluation & Feedback.
  2. Click Manage Turnitin.
  3. Click Enable Similarity Report for this folder.
  4. Click Allow learners to see similarity scores in their submission folder under Display if you want students to see their similarity scores.
  5. Click Automatic similarity checking on all submissions or Identify individual submissions for similarity checking under Submissions Checked to set which submissions generate a report.
  6. Click More Options.
  7. Select Standard paper repository or Do not store the submitted papers from the Submit papers to drop-down menu.
    • Standard paper repository allows future submissions to be compared to current submissions.
    • Consider using Do not store the submitted papers for assignments when students are submitting multiple drafts.
  8. Under Compare against, select the types of content you want to use to compare the submission.
  9. If you are providing a template to students, click Upload Template under Exclude assignment template and add the template.
  10. Click Submit to save More Options.
  11. Click Save to save Turnitin settings.
  12. Click Save and Close to save the changes to the assignment.

Viewing a Similarity Report

Instructors now have the option to view a classic report format or the new beta format by clicking Go to Beta View or Go to Classic View in the top-left corner of the report. Students only see the classic format.

  1. On the navbar, click Assessments and select Assignments.
  2. Click the name of the assignment.
  3. Click the Turnitin percentage icon under the Turnitin Similarity Report column. A new tab will open.
  4. To view the full AI report, click the AI score icon. A new tab will open.

Additional Resources

File Requirements (Turnitin)
New Similarity Report—Beta (Turnitin)