Creating an Assignment with a Plagiarism check
- Create an Assignment in your Canvas course.
- Set the Submission Type to Online and check the File Uploads option.
- Select Turnitin in the Plagiarism Review section and choose Turnitin options:
- Check any content types to Exclude from Similarity Reports.
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Bibliography: For papers written in English, Turnitin's machine learning algorithm is able to understand what elements of the paper should be excluded and dynamically remove them from the Similarity Report without the need for the user to specify a specific bibliography section of their paper.
For papers written in a non-English language Turnitin looks for a beginning and terminating phrase to work out where the bibliography is.
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Quotes: Turnitin looks for all content between quotation marks and excludes this text from the report.
- Check the option to choose to Index all submissions or not.
An unchecked box will still return a Similarity Report but the papers submitted to the course will not match against any future submissions.
- Set your preferences under Show reports to students to set if or when students can see the similarity report for the assignment submission.
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