Why are students having difficulty submitting a late assignment to Turnitin?

When setting up a Canvas assignment, Teachers have to option to include a due date as well as availability dates. (For more, see the Canvas Guides: What is the difference between assignment due dates and availability dates?)

If an assignment has a due date and an "available until" date, students can submit until the "available until" date. Anything a student submits after the due date passes will be marked late. The assignment will be locked on the "available until" date.

However, if you are using the Legacy Turnitin integration, students will not be able to submit to the assignment after the due date unless you explicitly allow this in the Turnitin settings.

This issue only impacts the Legacy Turnitin tool in Canvas. For easier assignment setup, consider using the new Turnitin tool facilitated by the Canvas Plagiarism Framework.

Go to the Assignment tool and click on the name of the assignment

This displays the details page for this assignment, including a Turnitin Properties Panel.

Click on the Turnitin Settings IconĀ 

The settings icon is the gear in the top right corner.

This displays the Turnitin Settings for this Assignment.

Click Optional Settings

This displays the Turnitin Optional Settings for this Assignment.

Check the box next to "allow late submissions"

Click Submit