Turnitin Plagiarism Prevention
Toronto Metropolitan University subscribes to Turnitin, a plagarism detection tool. Turnitin Originality Check helps to promote academic integrity by comparing a student’s written assignment submissions against the Turnitin content database and provides instructors with a report showing areas of similarity
- Plagiarism detection tool
- Integrated with D2L Brightspace
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Turnitin is integrated within the Toronto Metropolitan University D2L Brightspace environment.
Instructors can enable Turnitin when creating an assignment in D2L Brightspace. The reports and at-a-glance similarity score can be accessed directly from the D2L Brightspace Assignment submission list.
Learn how to enable Turnitin for assignments.
As of September 1st 2022, instructors continue to have access to Turnitin for originality checking, but can no longer use the tool’s grading and feedback functionalities.
Users are encouraged to use the grading, annotation and feedback features available in the Brightspace Assignment tool in tandem with Turnitin Originality. Please visit our Brightspace Assignment resource to learn more.
See the comparison table below to learn more about the resulting difference in functionality due to this change, and recommended alternatives.
Tool |
Turnitin Feedback Studio
|
Turnitin Originality | D2L Brightspace Assignments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Availability | Not Available | Available | Available |
Generate Similarity Score against the Turnitin content database |
✗ | ✓ |
|
Provide instructors with a report showing areas of similarity |
✗ |
✓ |
|
Reports & similarity score accessed from the Assignment submission list |
✗ |
✓ |
|
Annotate feedback on student submissions |
✗ |
✓ | |
| Turnitin QuickMark Sets | ✗ |
✗ | ✗ |
| Turnitin ETS e-rater® (grammar-checking) | ✗ | ✓ | |
Score/grade student submissions |
✗ |
|
✓ |
| All instructors, TA/GA's & Graders can provide feedback and score | ✗ | ✓ Learn more about grading and feedback with Brightspace Assignments |
|
Integrated rubric grading |
✗ |
|
✓ |
Sync score to D2L Brightspace Grades |
✗ |
|
✓ |
Turnitin services may be unavailable during their scheduled maintenance windows (external link) on the 1st and 3rd Saturday of each month between 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. EST.
- For more information on Academic Integrity initiatives and resources, visit the Academic Integrity Office website
- Turnitin Known Issues (external link)
- For Turnitin issues related to D2L Brightspace, please visit the D2L Help page.
- For Turnitin issues which are not related to D2L Brightspace, instructors can submit a ticket directed to the Turnitin Helpdesk. (external link)