Turnitin LTI for Administrators

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. Please contact your Turnitin Account Representative for pricing information.

The integration also requires Blackbaud's Learning Management System (LMS) Gradebook as assignment grades added through Turnitin sync back to it.

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.

Note: LTI 1.3 is available for Turnitin. Unless otherwise instructed, select LTI 1.3 tool when adding Turnitin as a Learning Tool provider. You should not have versions 1.1 and 1.3 enabled at the same time. For information on updating from version 1.1 to 1.3, see Update existing Turnitin LTI 1.1 integration to LTI 1.3.

For information on using the LTI tool as a faculty member, see Turnitin LTI for Faculty.

An Integration Manager can set up Turnitin as an LTI provider.

  1. In Core, select Settings, Integration settings, then Learning tools.

  2. Select Add provider and select Turnitin as the Provider type.

  1. Enter a Provider name for the tool.

    Tip: Faculty will see the Provider name when creating assignments, so choose a name faculty can easily identify for the learning tool.

  2. Enter an optional Description.

  3. Set the Status to Active.

  4. Enter the Launch URL: https://api.turnitin.com/api/lti/1p0/assignment

    Tip: Schools in the UK should use https://api.turnitinuk.com/api/lti/1p0/assignment.

  5. Enter your Consumer Key. This is your Account ID for your Turnitin account. It can be found on the left-hand side of your account name on the Administrator page in Turnitin.

  6. Enter the Shared Secret provided by your Turnitin administrator.

  7. When finished, select Save.