Turnitin LTI for Faculty

Turnitin is a form of plagiarism prevention, which allows faculty to easily verify student authorship through reports which show a percentage of how much of a document is original, cited from other sources, or unoriginal.

The Turnitin database contains over 45 billion web pages, over 337 million student papers, and over 130 million articles from academic books and publications that the tool uses to compare a recently updated document from a student. Results of the compare are returned in seconds, showing any matches to existing content on the web.

Turnitin’s Integration Package is required for the integration to work. Administrators can contact your Turnitin Account Representative for pricing information.

Note: You cannot utilize the Turnitin integration while impersonating another user. You must be logged in as a faculty member or student to work with it.

For information on setting up the Turnitin LTI integration as an administrator, see Turnitin LTI for Administrators.

Use Turnitin LTI 1.1 with assignments

Once Turnitin is set up as an LTI provider tool, it is available for faculty to use with assignments. After adding Turnitin to an assignment, the faculty member must access the Assignment details to launch the learning tool so it is available to students completing the assignment.

  1. From the Assignment Center or Assignments tab on a class page, select +Add, then Assignment to create a new assignment. Or select the context menu , then Edit next to an existing assignment.

  2. Under Submission method, select the Turnitin option to enable the tool.

    Note: If a third party submission option, such as Turnitin is selected in the Submission method settings for an assignment, the other Learning tool settings within the assignment are disabled as only one learning tool can be active at time.

  3. When finished, select Save.

  4. From the Assignment Center or Assignments tab on a class page, select the assignment title to open the Assignment details.

  5. The tool automatically launches in the Turnitin tile.

    Note: You may be presented with Turnitin's User Agreement the first time you launch the tool.

Upon launch, the following takes place:

  1. A Course Section is created in Turnitin if one did not already exist.

  2. The Course Roster is automatically populated in Turnitin if it has not already been added. If the roster is already populated, it is updated to include the user who launched Turnitin if they are not already there.

  3. The Assignment is created in Turnitin.

  4. The Turnitin Assignment Inbox displays for faculty in the Turnitin tile within Assignment details. From here, faculty can select the Settings icon, then select Optional Settings to configure their Turnitin options.

Note: If students access an assignment before the faculty member accesses the Assignment details page to launch the learning tool, the students will see a message stating that the learning tool has not been configured yet and they will not be able to upload their file submissions.

When students select the Assignment Detail for a Turnitin enabled assignment, they will also be able to launch it without having to navigate to a completely different page or website. Documents can also be submitted to Turnitin without having to authenticate into another system.

Faculty will see student submissions within the Turnitin inbox on the Assignment Details page, which includes the originality score. Faculty can select the title to open it in Turnitin, which allows them to use additional features such as GradeMark or PeerMark.

When Turnitin is used, Gradebook is required as assignment grades that are added through Turnitin sync back into it.

Turnitin LTI 1.1 FAQs

The assignment submitted icon displays in the gradebook and assignment evaluation page for faculty once a student has submitted their assignment. From the Assignment Center or class Assignments tab, faculty select an assignment title to open the Assignment details where the TurnitinAssignment Inbox displays student submissions and originality scores. Faculty can select a submission title to open it in Turnitin, which allows them to use additional Turnitin features, such as GradeMark or PeerMark.

In the Assignment Center or class Assignments tab, students select an assignment title to open the Assignment details. In the Turnitin tile, they select Upload Submissions to access Turnitin where they can submit documents without having to navigate to another page or sign into a different site.

When a student submits a Turnitin assignment, the assignment status updates to Completed.

No. When Turnitin is attached to an assignment, it is linked in the system through the API. Once you save an assignment with Turnitin, the option to delete the assignment is disabled and Turnitin cannot be removed from an assignment. If needed, you may recreate an assignment without Turnitin.

Although both a Rubric and Turnitin can be added to an assignment with LTI 1.1, they should not be used together. This can cause unintended consequences in both Blackbaud's LMS and Turnitin.

This occurs when a student attempts to submit a late assignment and late submissions are not allowed in the Turnitin assignment settings. Faculty can update the Turnitin assignment settings if late submissions are permitted.

  1. From the class Assignments tab or the Assignment Center, select the assignment title.

  2. In the Turnitin tile, select the Settings icon, then select Optional Settings.

  3. Under Submission Settings, enable Allow Late Submissions.

  4. Select Submit to save your changes.

When an assignment is created, it is linked to a class in Turnitin. Faculty receive this message when attempting to view student assignments after the class has expired in Turnitin. The default end date for a class in Turnitin is six months. Faculty can extend the end date for the class manually through Turnitin, or create a new Turnitin assignment for the course, which will also extend the end date.