Turnitin (New for Spring 2016)

Good afternoon ESU Canvas Community!

There is an important change coming to the Turnitin (TII)/Canvas integration. Currently there is a checkbox that appears within the Assignment creation parameters that allows the faculty to easily enable TII plagiarism detection. That feature, called an Application Programming Interface, or API, is being deprecated by the company that makes Turnitin. Instead they have developed a new integration format based on the Learning Tools Interoperability standard, or LTI. This new LTI integration is an industry norm; however, it significantly affects the workflow regarding how plagiarism detection is enabled within Canvas. To our disappointment, there will no longer be a checkbox within the Assignment parameters, so it may be a little less intuitive. However, there are several new affordances provided with this integration. Moreover, the integration between the products is deeper allowing for more of the TII features to be used during grading. 

This short tutorial will help you through the process:

 As always, please feel free to contact us at Learning Technologies when if you need help, we're glad to help!