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Turnitin (TII) is most known for its online service comparing student assignment submissions to billions of websites and papers and generating a similarity report of exact matches. Instructors can then verify if students properly cited their sources.  The company also offers other products to help support a culture of robust academic integrity and to streamline feedback and grading of student work.

Turnitin tools at UF include:

  • Plagiarism Review (embedded in Canvas Online Assignment types): A streamlined similarity-only report from their Feedback Studio.

  • Turnitin LTI (for Canvas External Tool Assignment types): A full-featured interface which includes the similarity report from their Feedback Studio and:

    • PeerMark: A tool for students to peer review each other's submissions (limited to Standard assignment types within TII, not yet available with Clarity/Student Writing). Note: Not compatible with Group Sets, you should use Canvas Group Assignment and Peer Review instead.

    • GradeMark: Interactive grading rubrics and feedback tool (used in place of Speedgrader for all assignment types within TII, yet still automatically synchronized with your Canvas gradebook).

    • [Limited Pilot tool] Clarity/Student Writing: A modern, online word processor, infused with the Draft Coach features of Similarity, Citation, & Grammar reports as well as a proprietary AI chatbot, and a playback tool of the document’s evolution.

  • Gradescope (a separate LTI for Canvas External Tool Assignments, see its dedicated webpage for more information): A tool to facilitate more efficient and fair grading of paper-based assessments, programming assignments, and more.

  • iThenticate (a standalone website service, see its dedicated webpage for more information): A similarity report designed for researcher use before publication or grant writing submission (it does not store a repository of these submissions for future comparisons).

  • ExamSoft & Examplify (some Colleges have separate licensing for this product, see your local resource center): Similar to the Respondus products available to the entire UF community, the ExamSoft software is used for creating and analyzing tests, plus it has a student-facing lockdown application, Examplify, promoting academic integrity during test-taking.

  • Draft Coach™ (for Google Docs): A student-facing product providing immediate access to Similarity, Citation, & Grammar reports for awareness of potential issues prior to assignment submission.

 

Note: Creating an account directly on Turnitin’s webpage is not needed and is not permitted for security reasons. If you need to use Turnitin outside of Canvas eLearning, please submit a ticket for a standalone account.

 

Access Instructions and Additional Resources

Accessing Turnitin in Assignments as a Canvas Built-In Tool:

  1. Create an assignment in your Canvas course.
  2. Choose “text entry” and/or “file upload” as submission type.
  3. Select "Turnitin" under the "Plagiarism Review" drop-down menu.
  4. Choose the desired settings (refer to the Turnitin Guide for more information).

 

Available Spring 2026: Enhanced Similarity Report

To remain consistent with the External Tool report, the built-in tool has the newer Enhanced Similarity Report version available as of Spring 2026.

 

Additional resources from Turnitin:

Accessing Turnitin in Assignments as an External Tool:

  1. Create an assignment in your Canvas course.
  2. In the “Submission Type” field, select “External Tool” from the dropdown menu.
  3. A list of available external tools will appear. Scroll down and select "Turnitin External Tool".
  4. Click "Save" or "Save and Publish" at the bottom of the settings page.
  5. Click the button to Load the assignment in a new window to configure the Turnitin settings as desired, such as electing to not store submissions in the repository, attaching/creating a Turnitin rubric via GradeMark, and enabling PeerMark. Then click “Submit” at the bottom.
  6. Make sure you Publish the assignment in Canvas if you did not already do so in Step 4.

Please refer to Turnitin's File Requirements page to know more about the file types and sizes the tool accepts. 

When logged into Chrome via a UF account, the Turnitin Draft Coach™ extension in Google Docs provides direct access to the Similarity report, a Citations report, and Grammar Guide in a lefthand sidebar (see the dedicated webpage for additional information).