Turnitin is SSU's plagiarism-prevention solution. Faculty can use it to help assess the originality of student work.

SSU faculty can only access Turnitin or have students submit work to Turnitin via Canvas' Assignment tool. Faculty cannot submit work to Turnitin on behalf of students; students must submit their work themselves, via a Canvas Assignment, for Turnitin to evaluate it.

Best Practices

• While Turnitin can help prevent plagiarism, it shouldn't be a substitute for designing your writing assignments to be cheating-resistant. Turnitin can detect plagiarism, that is, copying text from books, the internet, or previously submitted student papers. However, it can't detect other forms of cheating, such as papers written by paper mills or AI chat tools. If you scaffold your assignments over the course of the term and provide students with targeted feedback, it becomes much harder for students to cheat: Each submission requires your students to integrate your previous feedback, which is much harder to "cheat," no matter the method. To make sure that students' earlier drafts aren't flagged as cheating, you should change the Plagiarism Review settings for those draft assignments so that "Store submissions in" to "Do not store the submitted papers."

Resources

• SSU Policy on Cheating and Plagiarism
• How to enable Turnitin in Canvas
• Official Turnitin Help Guide

Get Support

If your question isn’t answered by the above resources, we encourage you to visit CTET either in person or via Zoom, submit a help request, or just email us. We are happy to do a 1-on-1 training or support session with you. You can find our current business hours and contact information, including our Zoom link, on our Contact Us page.

Student Support

CTET only supports faculty, not students. If your students report any issues to you, we would encourage you to look at the issue with them and, once you've documented it, report it to us. Then we can figure out the cause of the problem.