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Turnitin similarity checking

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

Instructions

Getting Started

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.

Visit our Turnitin Instructor Guide to learn how to enable Turnitin for assignments.

Students 

Submit your assignment in the Assignments tool in D2L Brightspace.

Your instructor may have enabled the Turnitin similarity checking service on your assignment.

This service has its own set of requirements for file uploads.

Support

Details

Integrated with D2L Brightspace?: Yes

Required Assessments

Contract Start: 2015
Contract End: TBD

Additional Information

Changes to Turnitin at TMU

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 our comparison table to learn more about the resulting difference in functionality due to this change, and recommended alternatives:

Turnitin Status Page

Find real-time information about the Turnitin status as well as updates about scheduled maintenance and past incidents.

http://turnitin.com/en_us/support/system-status (external link) 

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