For Faculty, this is within the Plagiarism Review section of the Edit Assignment page. 

For Students, you will follow the same steps when submitting any standard Canvas assignment. 

1. Navigate to the course you would like to add the assignment to.
2. From the left-hand navigation, select Assignments and then select the + Assignment button.

3. Enter an Assignment Name, into the field provided and customize the following assignment settings:

• Group assignment
• Peer reviews
• Moderated grading
• Points
• Assignment group
• Display grade as

4. For Submission Type select Online from the drop-down. Then, check the boxes for Text Entry or File Uploads (or both).

5. If you want to ensure that students are submitting the correct file(s) in which Turnitin can generate a similarity report, choose to Restrict Upload File Types to readable text files such as pdf, doc, docx, pptx, etc.

6. Select your integration name from the Plagiarism Review drop-down menu.

The Similarity Report can be accessed from within SpeedGrader.

1. Select the assignment name and open Speedgrader from the link in the right sidebar.
    

2. Select the Similarity Score, indicated by the colored square under Submitted Files on the right, to open the Similarity Report.
    

3. You can also access the report through Gradebook, by selecting the assignment where you would enter a grade, and selecting the arrow button on the right.
 

4. A side panel will open on the right which will then provide a link to Speedgrader.

 

Turnitin does not check for plagiarism in writing. We do check all submissions against our database. If any text in a submission is similar to one of our sources, these matches are highlighted for you to review.

It is perfectly natural for a submission to match against some of our database. Our database includes billions of web pages: both current and archived content from the internet, a repository of works students have submitted to Turnitin in the past, and a collection of documents, which comprises thousands of periodicals, journals, and publications.

Even when a submission has quotation marks and references, the quoted text will show as a match. The similarity score is simply the percentage of text in a submission that matched to other sources. Use this as a tool within your review process to make your own determination if any academic misconduct is present.

The color of the report icon indicates the submission’s similarity score, based on the amount of matching text found. The percentage range is 0% to 100%. The colors for similarity ranges are:

Blue: No matching text

Green: One word to 24% matching text

Yellow: 25-49% matching text

Orange: 50-74% matching text

Red: 75-100% matching text

• Internet: An active archive of 90+ billion current and archived web pages.
• Publications: A collection of over 80 million articles from library databases, textbook publishers, digital reference collections, subscription-based publications, homework helper sites, and books.
• Crossref: A collection of published scholarly works.
• Crossref Posted Content: A collection of scholarly works that have been submitted but not yet been published.
• Submitted Works: All items previously submitted to the UT San Antonio repository and publicly submitted works.

When a student includes:

• Quotes
• References and citations
• Common facts or facts that can’t be paraphrased

(eg. “Plagiarism is presenting someone else's work or ideas as your own.”)

When assignments include:

• An expectation of supporting arguments
• Templated material
• Essay prompts or short answer questions

UT San Antonio licenses Turnitin Similarity and Turnitin Originality. 

UT San Antonio does not enable or license AI-detection tools due to reliability concerns. Third-party detector results must not serve as the sole evidence for an academic-integrity concern. For more information, please review the UT San Antonio Faculty Guidelines to Generative AI.