Answered By: Signe Boudreau
Last Updated: Jul 19, 2024     Views: 855

NOTICE: New enrollment requests for the Libraries Turnitin course were no longer accepted after July 15, 2023 and no longer supports it after the Spring 2024 semester. This does not impact access to Turnitin connected to academic courses.

What Is Turnitin?

Turnitin is a feature in Canvas for checking the originality of student work. The software uses text-matching to identify content that appears to be copied from other sources. When a draft is submitted, the software generates a report where instances of text that the computer feels are not the student's original work are highlighted with a link to the original source for comparison.

Some UNL instructors use Turnitin as part of class assignments.