Instructors can use Turnitin to check Canvas assignment submissions for potential unoriginal content.  

Turnitin scans the internet, its own databases, and large academic proprietary databases, and looks for similarities in a given student submission. Instructors receive (in the Canvas Assignments tool) a Similarity Score and Similarity Report from Turnitin for each submission.

There are two Turnitin tools in Canvas: the Canvas Plagiarism Framework and the Legacy Turnitin tool. Both tools check the same sources and generate Similarity Reports. However, we recommend using the Canvas Plagiarism Framework because it is easier to set up and more tightly integrated into Canvas. Learn more about the differences between our Turnitin tools.