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Turnitin

Turnitin is Montclair State University’s plagiarism detection system. It is seamlessly integrated directly within Canvas. Turnitin is the world’s leading cloud-based software for evaluating student work. Its features include an Originality Report that determines plagiarism, Grademark for providing feedback, and peer review resources.

Enabling Turnitin in a Canvas Assignment

  1. Log in to Canvas at http://montclair.instructure.com/
  2. Select your course
  3. Click Assignments in the Course Navigation menu
  4. Click Add assignment
  5. Enter the assignment title, point value, and other relevant information
  6. In the Submission Type menu, select Online. (Select Text Entry and/or File Upload)screenshot showing turnitin options
  7. Under Plagiarism Review, select Turnitinscreenshot showing turnitin being selecting under plagiarism review
  8. Choose your desired settings based on the Turnitin options provided. Click Save as default settings to preserve your settings for future Turnitin assignments.

NOTE: If you copy a Turnitin assignment prior to December 27, 2021, faculty will need to edit the assignment to enable the new configuration of Turnitin by following the steps above.