Canvas and Turnitin

[dhulsey]

• Introduction
• What is "Feedback Studio"?
• Does Feedback Studio alter any functionality?
• As a local Canvas Administrator, how do I configure the Turnitin LTI?
• Can my institution enable both the API version and the LTI version as we transition to the LTI?
• What happens to API enabled assignments when the API version gets shut off?
• Do teachers and students have to sign up for an account at Turnitin.com?
• Does the LTI version of Turnitin have feature X?
• How does an instructor set up an assignment using the LTI tool?
• When creating an assignment, should I load Turnitin in a new tab?
• How do students submit to a Turnitin LTI assignment?
• How do students complete peer reviews?
• I want to set up an assignment sequence of rough draft, peer review, and final draft.
• How does the grading work?
• How do students receive their feedback?
• How can I tell if my students have viewed their feedback?
• Will Turnitin send a grade from Turnitin to the Canvas Gradebook?
• Can I use the Turnitin iPad app to grade?
• Where can I see the originality report for a paper?
• What happens when I copy a course in Canvas?
• How can I use Turnitin with an essay question on a Canvas Quiz to get an originality report?
• I want to check discussion posts for originality.
• I want to use the Turnitin LTI but need a Canvas rubric for grading / assessment
• Can Students submit to Turnitin LTI assignments from the Canvas mobile apps?
• Are there any complications with the Turnitin LTI tool?
• I have a question that is not answered here.
• I do not like something about the Turnitin LTI. Who should I make aware of my displeasure?

Introduction

Turnitin is well known for plagiarism and integrates with Canvas when an institution purchases a Trurnitin subscription. Many instructors rely on Turnitin.com services for plagiarism education, prevention, and detection. Turnitin is also a valuable tool for grading and peer reviews. Turnitin currently integrates with Canvas in two different ways, but Turnitin is phasing out the older method.

The oldest Turnitin integration with canvas is known as the API integration. Currently, Turnitin is phasing out this older integration, but still offers support to schools who are not having a good experience with the LTI.  

The newer method of using Turnitin is the LTI tool. Turnitin’s page for the LTI tool includes the official Admin, Instructor, and Student Guides

Tutorials from Instructure for using the Turnitin LTI can be found here: , How do I create a Turnitin assignment?, and How do I manage Turnitin assignments?

Canvas has also developed a more robust framework for plagiarism detection services: Spring Cleaning Is Coming: Plagiarism-Detection Improvements Headed Your Way! Turnitin has announced that they will be continuing the LTI plugin while also developing a new plugin using the framework canvas is developing. The target release for the new plugin is Fall 2017. This new plugin promises Turnitin assignment creation within Canvas's interface for those who wish to use Canvas for most operations but would like an originality report from Turnitin. Users who wish to grade in Turnitin or use Peermark will wish to use the LTI version. However, Turnitin says institutions will be able to run both the LTI and the new plugin simultaneously. 

What is "Feedback Studio"?

Feedback studio is the name for an interface overhaul for Turnitin that took place in mid 2016. You can see an interactive tour and demonstration of the interface (Note the ability to use bold, underline, italics and hotlinked text in Grademark comments).  The materials in this blog now refer to feedback Studio, but only Grademark and originality reports have been incorporated into Feedback Studio. Peermark and its interface has not changed at this time.

Does Feedback Studio alter any functionality?

Yes, but the changes only affect the grading functionality of Turnitin.  As of May 23, 2016, the ability to view the complete list of Grademark comments is missing. For students, the implementation of rubrics in Feedback Studio is clunky as I discuss in this video:

Thankfully, Turnitin is listening and refining Feedback Studio. As of early 2017, the ability to search for quick marks while grading has been restored.

As a local Canvas Administrator, how do I configure the Turnitin LTI?

There are multiple sets of instructions with varying levels of detail for local canvas Administrators on the Turnitin website. Here is the best set of instructions, and here is the current configuration of the Turnitin LTI at the account level for my school:

1. Name the configuration.

2. The consumer key is provided to your account by Turnitin.

3. The launch url is provided by Turnitin and is the same for all institutions. The launch url for Turnitin UK Users is https://submit.ac.uk/api/lti/1p0/assignment.

4. Completing the domain field with "turnitin.com" ("turnitin.uk.com" for UK users) enables Turnitin to launch from the Canvas speedgrader report icons.

5. Setting the privacy to public allows Canvas to share student names and emails with Turnitin.

6. Turnitin documentation states that the Custom Fields may be left blank. However, adding the code developed by canvas engineers adds several convenient features that sync information between canvas and Turnitin so that instructors do not need to enter information in both Canvas and Turnitin, including due dates, assignment id's, assignment titles, points possible, and availability dates. The graphic depicts all of the available codes.

Here is a short video demonstrating the syncing features added by the custom code.

Can my institution enable both the API version and the LTI version as we transition to the LTI?

Turnitin has offered varying answers on this question. The latest answer is yes. In an email sent to local Turnitin instructors on 4-11-2016, Turnitin states, "For those who are wondering, it is possible to run the legacy Canvas integration and Canvas LTI integration in parallel during the transition period."

What happens to API enabled assignments when the API version gets shut off?

In an email sent to local Turnitin instructors on 4-11-2016, Turnitin states, "When the previous Canvas integration becomes unavailable, classes and assignments originally created through the previous integration will remain accessible by logging into Turnitin directly. These older classes and assignments will not be visible in the LTI integration."  Although, I believe this access is limited to Turnitin administrators.

On the Canvas side, The API enabled assignments stay in Canvas and all Canvas functionality remains intact when the Turnitin API gets turned off. Submissions and grading in Canvas persists in Canvas once you turn off the API; only the link to Turnitin is lost, which means losing direct access to originality reports and any grading done in Turnitin. Although, with the API turned off and LTI turned on, you can currently see the icons and percent in the speedgrader for past assignments. If you try to click on the icon, you get this error message:

The text "Turnitin has been enabled for this assignment" persists in Canvas assignments when the API has been turned off but the LTI tool has not been turned on for that assignment even if the course is copied for a new term Of course, there is no way of knowing if this will change once Turnitin phases out the API altogether.

An instructor who wants to preserve grading in Turnitin from the API version for personal access, must save the grading as a .pdf one paper at a time before the API gets turned off. Originality reports can be saved one at a time, or reports can be reproduced by resubmitting the file to Turnitin and disregarding the first submission when interpreting the originality report.

When we turned on the LTI, I converted my existing assignments to use the LTI without issue.

Do teachers and students have to sign up for an account at Turnitin.com?

No one absolutely needs to create a separate Turnitin account. The tool uses the email address in the user's Canvas profile as an identifier, and log in from Canvas is seamless even for first time users. However, the instructor cannot use the Canvas test student for testing the LTI tool because the test student does not include a profile and email address. When I started using the LTI, I had a previous Turnitin account under the same email my Canvas profile uses, so the tool recognized me and put all submissions into my preexisting account.

If an instructor accessed Turnitin for the first time in the LTI and then later had a desire or need to access information in the web interface at Turnitin.com, the instructor can go through the forgotten password process at Turitin.com to set up a password and then can begin to use the webinterface. It is probably advisable for an instructor to have access to the Turnitin.com interface for using the iPad app, submitting for students at Turnitin.com, managing rubrics and saved grading comments, etc.

Does the LTI version of Turnitin have feature X?

Yes! All of the major Turnitin features are present in the LTI version, including originality reports and grading (with reusable comments, rubrics, etc.) through Feedback Studio, e-rater (automated comments), grade anything (PowerPoint Excel, etc.),  peer review (in Peermark), ios app, and cloud submit.

How does an instructor set up an assignment using the LTI tool?

Instructors add Turnitin as an external app to an assignment. This video demonstrates the process (assuming you have enabled the custom codes in your LTI configuration for Turnitin:

When creating an assignment, should I load Turnitin in a new tab?

I prefer to use a new tab, but there are pros and cons to both approaches. Probably the most important thing is to be consistent on your campus to avoid confusing students. Here is a video showing what each option looks like:

Update:  As of June 30, 2016, Instructors must no longer launch a Turnitin assignment to initiate the assignment in Turnitin. The Turnitin release notes state, "Students can now launch into an assignment and trigger its creation; this relieves instructors from being forced to have first interaction with the assignment before students are able to submit." However, the instructor must set an available from date and a due date in Canvas to allow students to initialize an assignment.

How do students submit to a Turnitin LTI assignment?

Go here for a .pdf tutorial on uploading a word processing file to a Turnitin assignment.

How do students complete peer reviews?

Here is a .pdf tutorial on using PeerMark.

I want to set up an assignment sequence of rough draft, peer review, and final draft.

You will need two assignments in Canvas / Turnitin. The first assignment will be for students to submit drafts and critique each other with Peermark. The second assignment will be for the submission of the final draft. This video tutorial demonstrates setting up an assignment and adding a Peer review component with Peermark. Note that only the grade on the paper in Grademark gets passed back to the canvas gradebook, so if you want to grade Peer reviews, you can add reviews into the paper grade (what I do), or you can set up an assignment with no submission and manually enter grades for the peer reviews:

How does the grading work?

An instructor can choose to grade using Turnitin's Grademark or Canvas's Speedgrader.

I do all of my grading in Turnitin's Grademark. I use the Quickmarks (saved comments I can reuse) with a rubric and enter the grade in Turnitin. The grade gets passed to the Gradebook in Canvas. It actually works quite a bit like the Canvas Speedgrader, and you can advance from student to student as well as quickly flip through all of a student's submissions for the term. I prefer Turnitin's Grademark because I can save and reuse remarks (with clickable url's!). Turnitin also can layer the originality report and Grademark, so the instructor can see the originality report while grading. Unlike the older API plugin, Quickmarks, rubrics, and PeerMark libraries persist across Canvas courses, so there is no need for importing or exporting Turnitin assets after the initial use.

As of the August 29, 2015 update, the student submits the paper to Turnitin, and Turnitin sends a copy of the paper to Canvas. The copy of the paper in Canvas may be graded in the Speedgrader, but if you wish to use a Canvas rubric, you must add the rubric to the assignment before configuring the assignment submission as an external tool.

How do students receive their feedback?

Here is a tutorial for receiving instructor feedback through Grademark. If the instructor chooses to grade in the Canvas speedgrader, then the process is the same as it is for any other Canvas assignment except that the student can also click on the Turnitin icon to view her originality report.

How can I tell if my students have viewed their feedback?

If you use Grademark for grading, you can access the Turnitin inbox through the link on your Canvas assignment:

In the image above of a Turnitin assignment inbox, the eye icon indicates a student who has viewed feedback. The dots are students who have not seen the feedback.

Will Turnitin send a grade from Turnitin to the Canvas Gradebook?

Yes! Grades entered in Turnitin automatically get posted to the Canvas grade book. However, this is a one way link. Grades posted in Canvas do not show up in Turnitin.  

Can I use the Turnitin iPad app to grade?

I use it all of the time! In fact, the iPad Turnitin app does something nothing else does right now: you can download papers to the iPad and grade them without an Internet connection, using a rubric and Quickmarks (saved and reusable comments). Then, when you hit wifi again, the papers sync back to Turnitin (and therefore to Canvas).

Where can I see the originality report for a paper?

Icons for the originality report show up in the Canvas speedgrader and gradebook.  The full report can be seen by clicking on the icon in the speedgrader or accessing the LTI tool from the Canvas assignment or through the Turnitin iPad app.

What happens when I copy a course in Canvas?

The assignment, settings, instructions, and dates persist in Canvas when an instructor copies a course for a new term.The LTI assignment must be visited (if you load TII inside of Canvas or the LTI tool must be launched (if you load in a new tab) to reestablish the assignment and settings on the Turnitin side. Now, a student can access the assignment from Canvas to initialize the assignment in Turnitin; However, the instructor must set an available from date and a due date in Canvas to allow students to initialize an assignment.

How can I use Turnitin with an essay question on a Canvas Quiz to get an originality report?

There are two options.

The first option is to use a file upload question in the quiz. This allows students to upload a file in response to the question, and the instructor can bulk download the files from the quiz as documented in How do I create a File Upload quiz question?.  Once the students' files are downloaded in a zip file, the instructor could upload the zip file to the Submitting via quick submit https://guides.turnitin.com/01_Manuals_and_Guides/Instructor/Instructor_User_Manual/37_Quick_Submit on Turnitin's website. This is one good reason for instructors to set up accounts through Turnitin's interface and enable the quick submit in their settings.

The second option is to use essay questions in the quiz. After the students complete the quiz, the instructor can generate an item analysis. Download the item analysis and open it. Next, locate the column with the essay responses you wish to scan, and it helps here if you can search for a key word to locate the column. I always include the word "essay" in my essay questions, which lets me locate the columns I need quickly. Next, copy the column and submit it to Turnitin via cut and paste with Submitting via quick submit 

Here is a video that demonstrates using quick submit:

I want to check discussion posts for originality.

A feature request for using Turnitin on Canvas discussions is under review: . In the meantime, you can navigate to a discussion, select the entire page (ctrl A on Windows; Command A on Mac). Next, use Submitting via quick submit  on Turnitin's website and paste in the text. Some text you may not want will be included like the discussion prompts and your discussion replies to students, but if you can live with that, you can batch scan the posts, and what you copy even includes each student's name, so you know who wrote each post:

I want to use the Turnitin LTI but need a Canvas rubric for grading / assessment

Create your assignment as a Canvas assignment without linking it to Turnitin. Save the assignment. Add your rubric to the assignment, and edit the assignment to enable Turnitin. I

Can Students submit to Turnitin LTI assignments from the Canvas mobile apps?

Not at this time. As per Canvas iOS app and External Apps(LTI), Turnitin needs to make its LTI tool fully compatible for a mobile environment. However, it is possible for students to submit essays by using the browser on their mobile device. Additionally, Turnitin's iPad app supports student use for submitting papers  and viewing feedback. For students to gain access to the iPad app, they should go through the password recovery process after accessing Turnitin at least once through the canvas integration.

Are there any complications with the Turnitin LTI tool?

There is some loss of Canvas functionality that may affect some instructors:

• Turnitin assignments will only accept one file per assignment.
• Using differentiated due dates as documented inHow do I assign an Assignment to an individual student or course section? breaks date syncing with Turnitin because Turnitin can only handle one set of dates per assignment. As a workaround, an instructor could set a date in Turnitin that corresponds with the last date in Canvas, allowing all groups to submit to the same assignment, but this only works if your school is not using the custom codes to automatically sync due dates with Turnitin.  Alternatively, an instructor could set up multiple assignments, releasing each assignment only to one subset of students.
• If an instructor wishes to alter a Canvas rubric on a Turnitin assignment, she must Turn off the LTI to alter the rubric and then reinstate the LTI when done editing the rubric. Warning: disabling the LTI after students have submitted will severe the connection between Canvas and the LTI; you should only do this if students have not submitted.
• It is not possible to use the Turnitin LTI (or any other external tool submission) with a Canvas group assignment; the option to assign to a group disappears as soon as "External Tool" is selected as the submission type.

I have a question that is not answered here.

You can comment on this blog, and I am happy to help, but I do not work for Instructure or Turnitin and have no inside information. I am an English Professor, and I use the Turnitin LTI tool in Canvas daily. 

I do not like something about the Turnitin LTI. Who should I make aware of my displeasure?

Most issues are going to be with Turnitin. File bug reports and give feedback at Turnitin - Support Wizard.  You can also contact your local Canvas admin to pass feedback to the Turnitin rep for your institution. I encourage you to do this. Let Turnitin know that Canvas users want and deserve their attention. Turnitin is a great product, but it is also an expensive one. Get the most for your money by getting your feedback to the right folks.

However, it is also true that Canvas and Turnitin are working together, and Instructure Employees have initiated discussions on the following known issues:

Turnitin + Canvas: submissions appearing on the wrong assignment

Turnitin + Canvas issue: "Resubmit to Turnitin" button occasionally results in submission getting st...

Turnitin + Canvas: Allow teachers to resubmit on behalf of students

Canvas + Turnitin: Retreive TII originality score again after due date has passed

Questions? If so, please don’t be shy!

Does Feedback Studio alter any functionality?

[Stef_retired]

snugent, I don't have the opportunity to test this now, but I believe the Turnitin iPad app works for institutions using the API integration as well. Here's the documentation: Turnitin - iPad (refer to "How do I generate a class access code?").

[snugent]

I am full of TurnItIn questions. I have been playing around with the Peermark options. Is there a reason there are two options for setting point values and due dates?

Settings page

PeerMark page

[dhulsey]

Hi, snugent​! The first set of due dates is for students to submit papers. The second set of due dates occurs to let students know when the peer reviews for other students are due. The many due dates were one of the hardest things for me to wrap my head around when I first started using the LTI, so I feel your pain on this.

The points are also set up to be separate grades for submitting a draft and for critiquing another student's paper. Sadly, only the grade on the paper syncs back to the canvas grade book.

Here is what I do with the due dates and points:

I set the due date in Canvas for the submission of the draft. Then I add an ungraded assignment with no submission to mark when the critiques are due in the calendar and to-do list.

For points:

I have my students submit a draft and critique two other students. Each part of the assignment is worth five points:

Submission of draft: five points

Critique first paper: five points

Critique second paper: five points

Under additional options on the Peermark assignment, you can choose to automatically award points if the student completes and submits the critique. I take the automatic score and add it to the five points for submitting the draft and record the draft submission and critiques as one grade in Grademark.

I agree that the Peermark date and point process could be more streamlined, but I hope that helps!

[snugent]

Thanks  @dhulsey ​

That is very helpful. I am not writing instructor so I thought I may missing something important on doubling up of due dates.

[snugent]

Another question. Do students every see the peer review dates on the assignment dashboard? It appears to me that they don't. I can see that students see a start date on the peer review screen but I don't see the due date I set as an instructor. I like the peer review tool but it seems confusing for both instructor and student.

[dhulsey]

I don't think the students see a due date for the critiques in the Turnitin interface. I tell students to look in Canvas for the due dates , and I add an ungraded assignment with no submission to mark when the critiques are due in the calendar and to-do list. Ideally, the dates would sync across Canvas and Turnitin, but I am not sure that is possible with an LTI tool.

[snugent]

Hi Dallas

I really appreciate your perspective. Thank so much! This has really helped me to write the documentation for our faculty that is helpful. Another question. I tested having one of the students resubmit a paper. I wanted to know what happens on the instructor and student side. So in my dummy student account I went to upload the paper again.  It appears students see a message that the previous submission will be removed along with any comments.  I went ahead and upload the revision paper as my dummy student. Now the originality report is not available to the student or the instructor. I waited quite awhile and it still hasn't show up.  Also I noticed the instructor doesn't have two versions of the paper. Is this working as designed? It looks like instructors should limit each assignment to one submission. Is that what you do?

[dhulsey]

I only allow my students to submit one file. That way, if the student needs to resubmit, she has to contact me, and I can delete the file to allow re submission if necessary. Otherwise, a student can wipe out what I have already graded by resubmitting. Also, I do not want a student gaming the originality report by using repeated submissions to change the paper just enough to get a favorable originality report. 

I can't offer insight into the behavior of allowing students to resubmit before the due date because I have never chosen or tested that setting.

Anyway, I hope that helps, Susan!

[snugent]

Thanks Dallas for your reply. This good to know. I will include that in my documentation for faculty.

[Eric_Roussel]

Are we able to add the 'clock' in student view in Canvas to identify to students that the paper is being 'evaluated/reported'? This appears in the teachers view but not the students view. This might restrict some confusion from students on whether it was submitted correctly in Turnitin.

[dhulsey]

Hi, Eric! it sounds like you might be talking about the older way of using Turnitin via the API plugin. The first thing you should know is that Turnitin is sunsetting the API tool in favor of the LTI method.

I do not think the students can see the clock that indicates Turnitin is processing the originality report with the API tool. Students can see a clock when the LTI version processes the report, but the LTI, in my experience, does not usually experience delays in processing the report as the API version does.

I hope that helps!

[dhulsey]

Positive changes to the Turnitin LTI are coming out this weekend with the promise of more updates in the future: Will Instructure update the Turnitin Legacy integration when new Turnitin APIs become available?. ​

[dhulsey]

Updated for the changes released on 8-29-2015. Thanks for reading!

[dvaughan]

We have just signed up for Turnitin and configured our LTI and CANVAS integration in Turnitin but when we configure in CANVAS as per the instructions our settings can't be validated - we get a message saying invalid when we click on confirm settings. We have supplied the account id, the shared secret and the UK URL as specified in the CANVAS Turnitin Integration guide. Any suggestions?

[dhulsey]

Hi,  @dvaughan ​. As an instructor, my experience on the administrative side of things is extremely limited. I know  @Chris_Hofer ​ is a Canvas admin who has set up the Turnitin LTI for his campus, so he might have some thoughts or insider knowledge if something more needs to be done on the Canvas side of things. Otherwise, my suggestion is to make a screencast with something like Screencast-O-Matic - Free online screen recorder for instant screen capture video sharing ​and send it in to Turnitin and Canvas support.

[dvaughan]

Chris

Dallas referred me to you. We are trying to configure Turnitin via LTI in CANVAS and in spite of following Turnitin and CANVAS instructions when we click on 'Confirm settings' in the account Settings we get a reply saying invalid settings. I have checked our integration config in Turnitin UK, and followed the CANVAS Guide but to no avail. What are we missing?

[snugent]

Hi  @dvaughan ​

We had trouble too! We figured out that you should NOT select the Canvas option but rather the LTI option when presented with the list of all LMS configurations. Worked great once we selected the LTI option.

[Chris_Hofer]

Hello  @dvaughan ​...

I set up our instance of Turnitin at the Account level so that anyone who teaches in Canvas can use the LTI app in their courses.  So, for our Canvas instance, I did the following:

1. Navigated to our Managed Account.
2. Clicked on "Settings" on the left nav bar.
3. Clicked on the "Apps" tab.
4. Clicked on the "View App Configurations" button.
5. Clicked on the blue "Add App" button.
6. Followed the directions outlined here: Turnitin - Canvas

Is this what you have been doing?

[dvaughan]

Chris

Yes. We did that but I was also ticking the box for Turnitin in Account Settings. I was then prompted for the usual info (as per the app install) and then it validates your input but the validation kept failing. I discovered that the app install was enough as we now have the option in our assignments. I am just puzzled as to what the Account Settings are all about.

Many thanks for the reply.

Regards

Donna

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[dvaughan]

I selected both! I think its working.

Many thanks

Regards

Donna

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[Chris_Hofer]

Hi  @dvaughan ​...

Enabling Turnitin via your Administrative Pages of Canvas (via the "Settings" menu) is activating the API (legacy) version of Turnitin that is being phased out.  In  @dhulsey ​'s blog above, read through the first few paragraphs and at least the first question about having both the API and the LTI versions activated at the same time.  At our Technical College, we just disabled the API version and am now using the LTI exclusively.

[dvaughan]

Thanks. Now I comprehend! I think we are good.

Regards

Donna

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[dvaughan]

Chris

In fact I had not done that. I had installed the app the usual, non-manual way but that enabled the old legacy API mode of use. When I followed the process you show below, I still couldn’t see Turnitin as an External Tool in the Assignment. Maybe there is a delay after installing the app. Any suggestions?

Regards

Donna

Dr. Donna Vaughan

Director of Academic Affairs, Sydney

CAPA The Global Education Network

301/ 21 Berry St

North Sydney NSW 2060

AUSTRALIA

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[snugent]

Hi Donna

Here are the directions on the TurnItIn website for the LTI tool. The key is to choose the LTI option (NOT Canvas) when presented with all the LMS options. We made that mistake but the Canvas option is the old API option which you do not want. As Chris stated you cannot have both configured. It will cause issues.

Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) - Guides.turnitin.com

I have directions here for our faculty to use the LTI tool. This may help you troubleshoot the integration.

How to Create TurnItIn Assignments in Canvas: Canvas Instructor Tutorials

I hope that helps.

[Chris_Hofer]

It's been my experience that as soon as you properly enable any LTI app, it is available right away for a given course or for the entire account (depending on where you chose to enable the LTI).  Have you gotten the LTI to work?

[snugent]

 @dhulsey ​ I have another question and was wondering how you handle this in Canvas. One of our instructors was asking about how students viewed the grades. I tested this out and found a few inconsistencies. Once a TurnItIn assignment is graded I found the following as a student.

• I can view the score on the Canvas assignment index page.
• I can view the score in Canvas grades.
• I can view the score on the Canvas assignment details page. If the instructor never opened the SpeedGrader, I see message that no preview is available. But if the instructor did open the SpeedGrader, the assignment details page will display the original document, Canvas document previewer and similarity index score which is clickable but leads to nowhere and displays an error message that it can't find the settings for this (see images below).
• To view Instructor feedback from the TurnItIn tool I must click the assignment title to view the assignment page. From there  I can click the similarity index score or grademark icon. This will display the TurnItIn document previewer where I can view the grademark feedback. However, I cannot see the score in the document previewer or the on TurnItIn assignment dashboard page.

How do you direct students to view feedback and their score? This seems confusing for both instructor and student. My thinking is that it would be great if the score would display on TurnItIn Assignment dashboard and in the TurnItin document previewer and on the Canvas assignment details page the TurnItIn assignment dashboard or at least a link to the TurnItIn assignment dashboard would display. Tagging  @karl ​ and Alliance Partner - Turnitin​ to see if they have suggestions on this as well.

SpeedGrader was never opened.

SpeedGrader was opened.

[dhulsey]

Hi, Susan! The features you are asking about went live on Saturday September 29, so I am just now adjusting to them. I noticed that the icons in the Speedgrader and in the grade book are links to nowhere. I don't know if that is a bug or (the classic response) "working as intended." You might want to submit a bug report simultaneously to Canvas and Turnitin.

Currently, I always direct my students to open the LTI tool for feedback. I plaster my tutorial everywhere, and place a link to it in the instructions of every assignment that uses Turnitin:

To access your originality report and feedback once your assignment is graded, please follow the instructions in this tutorial: https://www.nmjc.edu/userfiles/dhulsey/LTI/ltiversionNMJCCanvasTurnitinFeedbackStudentTutorial.pdf

I keep the above text snippet on my clipboard manager, so if someone messages me and asks, I paste in the snippet.

Additionally, one awesome feature of Turnitin is that the instructor can see who has viewed feedback and who has not. I wait a few days after grading, and I message anyone who has not viewed their feedback with a copy of the tutorial and an offer to help.

In the image above of a Turnitin assignment inbox, the person and check icon is a student who has viewed feedback. The dots are students who have not seen the feedback.

I hope that helps!

[snugent]

Thanks Dallas that is awesome!

[dvaughan]

No. I configured both LTI and ‘CANVAS’ (which I assume is the old api) in Turnitin and I seem to just be picking up the API version. To be honest, I am happy with that because the LTI integration is too complex. I’m hopeful that CANVAS will streamline it a bit. Do you know if they are planning this?

Regards

Donna

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[Chris_Hofer]

The API won't be around for very much longer (again, see  @dhulsey ​'s blog at the top)...as it's a "legacy" version that won't be supported.  Using the LTI is the way to go, IMHO.  There are some great tutorial videos available both from Dallas and also from jmd260​ (see my other posting above, or here: https://community.canvaslms.com/groups/designers/blog/2015/04/18/canvas-and-turnitin#comment-2429).  I really don't know the plans of Turnitin.  From what I've gathered, Dallas has been doing a great job of keeping his blog up-to-date and has been letting us know here when there are new updates coming.  Thanks Dallas!

[dvaughan]

Chris

Do I have to setup every instructor in Turnitin?

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[dhulsey]

HI, Donna. As the Canvas admin at your school, you would set up the LTI for your Canvas account. Each instructor then has access to Turnitin and can set up assignments by following this tutorial: ​Turnitin LTI - YouTube.

[scottdennis]

Dallas is doing an amazing job of keeping everyone in the loop w/ regards to Turnitin.

[dhulsey]

Hey, Thanks  @scottdennis ​. I appreciate that you noticed!

[dvaughan]

Dear All

Many thanks for your help. I finally have Turnitin working. The problem was two systems each with two different sets of settings depending on the integration method and I kept getting the wrong combinations. I have taken your advice and gone LTI after all.

Many thanks once again

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[tdelillo]

This post is great for explaining the LTI, thanks  @dhulsey  and everyone who has commented. What I'm missing here is a side-by-side comparison of how the legacy integration functions versus how the LTI integration functions. As an admin who doesn't actually use Turnitin (except to test out things occasionally), that would help me tremendously, because I expect to have to explain to faculty what is going to change when we move to the LTI. I'm sure someone who has made the switch created something like that for their faculty. Can anyone save me a lot of work?

[snugent]

Hi Tracey

We didn't use the API before we completed a LTI integration with TurnItIn but the Canvas guides are geared toward the API rather than the LTI

How do I create a new assignment with Turnitin?

Here is the page I created on the Instructor tutorials site I maintain. Feel free to use. This may help you compare.

How to Create TurnItIn Assignments in Canvas: Canvas Instructor Tutorials

[tdelillo]

That is a nice tutorial, thanks! Definitely will help.

[dhulsey]

Those are some good looking documents, Susan. You put together great tutorials!

[snugent]

Thanks Dallas

I couldn't of done it without your help. I appreciate this great resource you have created!

[jhalter]

Dallas, I have some percentages from Turnitin show in Speed Grader and others no percentages are showing.  Do you have any ideas why this is occurring?

In addition, are you finding some delays (1-3 days) in having percentages showing up in Canvas from Turnitin?  Thank you, Joe Halter

[dhulsey]

Hi, Joseph! On the missing percentages, I would look in Turnitin to see if there is a pattern in the kinds of files students are submitting. I have a suspicion that the missing reports in the Speedgrader might be linked to the student submitting from DropBox or Google Drive instead of uploading an actual file. That is just a hunch though.

I haven't seen delays in Canvas, but that is because I don't look in Canvas as I do all of my grading in Turnitin's Grademark, but it seems likely that this could happen as the older API plugin also had this problem with displaying results in the Speedgrader, especially at high traffic times during the term. I do not see any delays in accessing reports through the LTI tool by going to the assignment and opening Turnitin from there.

Sorry I can't be more definitive, but I hope that give you a starting point for the investigation.

[Chris_Hofer]

Hey there,  @dhulsey ​...

As you may recall from earlier posts, Joe and I work at the same Tech College.  We disabled the API before the start of this semester, so people that use Turnitin are using the LTI exculsively.  If students are submitting their work via Dropbox or Google Drive through the Turnitin LTI, does it still show as a previewable document in SpeedGrader?  (I'm asking because I don't teach here at MPTC...just a Canvas admin).

[dhulsey]

Hey, Chris. I am not sure. Currently, using the LTI, the student submits to Turnitin. Then, Turnitin forwards a copy of the file the student submits to Canvas, so the student's submission exists both in Turnitin and Canvas. I raised the issue of the Cloud Submit because I am not sure what kind of file Turnitin pulls from Drobbox or GoogleDrive or even if it does pull a file or only shares the document from the cloud storage service. However, I stress this is only a hypothesis you could use to check what is happening. Likewise, I will start looking in the speedgrader to see if I can detect a pattern to missing reports.

Also, if you skip  the speedgrader and open up the LTI tool to view student submission and reports, everything is working correctly regardless of how the student submits to the assignment. 

That is all I know right now, but I'll see if I can investigate further.

[Stef_retired]

Everyone, I wanted to mention that sometimes Turnitin will post status updates on Twitter in the event of an unexpected outage or processing delay, so you might consider following @TurnitinStatus on Twitter.

[Stef_retired]

Hey again everyone, the latest Canvas Beta Release Notes (2015-09-28) might have saved the best for last (at least for those of us who depend upon Turnitin). Scroll down to the very bottom of the Release Notes to see the news about forthcoming upgrades, currently in beta, to the Canvas integration with the Turnitin LTI.

[dhulsey]

Oddly, it seems like most of those improvements are already in place as of August 29, but it is good to see improvements on the tool for sure!

Edit: Well, except for the use of the custom field to add additional code to sync due dates. That looks snazzy, and now I need to bug my Canvas admin to add that to our beta site to play around with.

[glparker]

I'm doing some testing, and one thing I found that's not noted here is what happens to existing originality reports in Canvas when you disable the Legacy Turnitin and enable the LTI turnitin.   It looks like links to old Originality reports in the Gradebook & Speedgrader no longer work. After disabling Legacy TII on my test system, I went to an old course and clicked to view an old Originality report.   I got sent to this screen with this error message.

Is this expected behavior?  Is it the case that switching to LTI Turnitin will cause us to lose access to old originality reports ?

Thanks <Glen

[dhulsey]

I don't know. Glen. You raise an important question though.  It is probably something that someone from Canvas or Turnitin would need to answer. I suggest making a bug report. Although, this is an issue with cloud computing in general. If the cloud changes, it changes past courses as well, and this could be an issue in a grade appeal, for instance, because the past course no longer exists exactly as it was taught.

On the bright side, you can probably get access to the old reports by contacting Turnitin support. Also, the LTI tool fixes this issue by using the instructor's email and Turnitin account so that reports and files are always available by logging into the Turnitin website.

I hope that helps!

[dhulsey]

Here is a quick video test in Canvas Beta of some of the new syncing features described in Canvas Beta Release Notes (2015-09-28)

Canvas Substitution Variables

By adding the following custom fields in the external app configuration, assignment dates and other information will sync between canvas and Turnitin:

• custom_duedate=$Canvas.assignment.dueAt.iso8601
• assignmentid=$Canvas.assignment.id
• custom_submission_title=$Canvas.assignment.title
• custom_maxpoints=$Canvas.assignment.pointsPossible
• custom_startdate=$Canvas.assignment.unlockAt.iso8601