Creating a Turnitin Assignment

1. Select the course in which you would like to create your assignment.
2. From the left-hand navigation, select Assignments.
3. Select the + Assignment button.
4. Enter an Assignment name into the box provided and customize the assignment setting
5. To add the Canvas Plagiarism Framework, change the assignment Submission Type to Online using the drop-down menu.
   
6. Under Online entry options, select the File Uploads or Text entry check box.
7. Select your Turnitin from the Plagiarism Review drop-down menu.

   
   

   
   
   
8. Customize the following Turnitin plagiarism settings:
   Submission indexing options 
   Similarity Report exclusion options 
   Changing Similarity Report availability options 
   
   
9. Choose a Similarity Report generation option that best suits your needs.
   Immediately - A Similarity Report will be generated at the time of submission.
   Immediately and on the due date - A Similarity Report will be generated at the time of submission and on the assignment due date. We recommend this option as it allows for a collusion check within your class.
   
   
10. Select Save & publish to publish this assignment. Select Save to save the assignment.

Related Resouces

• Using Turnitin with Canvas
• Customizing the Similarity Report (turnitin.com)
• Accessing the Similarity Report (turnitin.com)