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Turnitin as part of MyCourses's Assignment, Forum, Quiz or Workshop activities

You can link Turnitin to the familiar MyCourses Assignment, Quiz, or Workshop activities, allowing you to use Turnitin's similarity check and AI detection via Turnitin's Feedback Studio interface. To do so,

• turn on Edit mode
• add or open the Assignment / Quiz / Workshop
• open the Assignment / Quiz / Workshop settings tab
• open Turnitin plagiarism plugin settings. The setting options are all intuitive and self-explanatory. You can get more information on each of the settings by clicking on the question-mark icon. The numbers in the list refer to the numbered items in the snapshot.

Note 1: The Assignment activity has two date settings related to the submission deadline. The first, called Due date, is the date after which late submissions are allowed. (This corresponds to the setting Allow submissions after due date being enabled in the Turnitin activity.) This date is marked in the students' and teachers' MyCourses calendars. The second, called Cut-off date, is the absolute deadline after which submissions are no longer allowed (Cut-off date is the assignment activity setting in MyCourses; there is no corresponding setting in the Turnitin assignment activity.) This date is not marked in the MyCourses calendar.

Note 2: If a student's response in the Assignment, Workshop or Quiz activity does not meet the word count and file size requirements, the similarity report will not be generated (see How does Turnitin work).

Turnitin assignment

Adding a Turnitin assignment in a MyCourses workspace

You can use either the current Turnitin Assignment 2 activity or the new Turnitin LTI 1.3 activity to create a Turnitin submission box until 14 June 2026. From 15 June 2026 onwards, you can only use the Turnitin LTI 1.3 activity to create a new Turnitin submission box.

Planned schedule for the removal of Turnitin Assignment 2 activity

Implementation schedule for Turnitin LTI 1.3 activity

If the file size of a submission exceeds 100 MB, it must be split into parts of less than 100 MB and submitted separately in the designated Parts (in Turnitin Assignment 2 only) or submission boxes.

Turnitin assignment 2

In Edit mode, select Turnitin Assignment 2. See . (The image of the activity chooser differs a little from the MyCourses view, but the functions are the same. The image of the MyCourses chooser is above.)

A note on parts

A submission box can contain several parts with different date settings. Work submitted in the different parts by the same student will not be compared when creating the originality report of a submission in a part (i.e., the submission in Part 1 will not be compared to the submission in Part 2), even if the option to store the work in the standard repository is selected in the submission box settings. The work of different students is compared. So, a submission box can be created containing, say, three parts, the first two for two versions of drafts and the third for the final version to be graded, all with a different Start date, Post date, and Due date.

If set to store submissions in the standard repository, this will be done on the Due date of the last part in the submission box.

A note on Post Date, the date when students see their feedback

Set the date after which the student can see the teacher's feedback and grade in Feedback Studio and the grade in the feedback box. If you set the date to be the same as Start Date, the student will see the feedback given as soon as it is given, even if given before Due Date. Naturally, by setting Post Date to be the same as Due Date, the feedback and possible grade will be visible to the student after that date.

The similarity report

Open the similarity report by double-clicking on the similarity percentage or the coloured rectangle alongside. The report will open in Turnitin's viewing tool called Feedback Studio. In addition to viewing possible similarities and their sources in the submitted text, you can give feedback to your students in several ways via the tool. Acquaint yourself with the flag feature. See the .

The AI writing report

The AI tool does not have any controls. It automatically creates the AI report when the submission meets the required conditions (see here or in for details). See Turnitin's guide for the we're using at Aalto University.

Turnitin's guide also contains useful material on the subject, in particular, the in the case of a high AI writing score.

PeerMark: Turnitin's peer review tool

PeerMark is another alternative to FeedbackFruits and MyCourses's Workshop activity. FeedbackFruits is by far the most versatile of these peer-review tools, but PeerMark also has its uses. It is easy to set up as part of a Turnitin Assignment. For details on using PeerMark, see .

Other useful features

The Turnitin Assignment has an anonymous grading feature that is useful to minimise biases, namely, confirmational bias (), that we may have. Setting up anonymous grading is easy. Read more about and in Turnitin's guide.

Turnitin LTI 1.3 has an Assignment Copy feature that allows you to copy assignment setups from earlier submission boxes (Turnitin calls them classes). See . You can also as before.

Submitting on behalf of the student

Normally, students themselves directly submit papers in a Turnitin submission box. Sometimes, a student may submit their work to the teacher through some other method, in which case the teacher can submit the work in Turnitin on their behalf. Remember, however, that The Code of Academic Integrity requires students to be treated equally, and so such flexibility, if permitted, should apply to all students.

1. Open the Turnitin submission box in your MyCourses course. If there is no Turnitin assignment activity in the course workspace yet, see the instructions above on how to add it.
2. If the student whose paper will be submitted is not listed in the Turnitin submission box, add them as a participant to the MyCourses workspace. Go to Course home page → Participants → Enroll users → type the name of the student in the Search field and choose the right student from the search results → ensure that the Assign role = Student
3. Submit the file on the student's behalf: 
   Turnitin Assignment 2: click the icon with an upward arrow (the icon looks like a cloud with an arrow in it) in the row with the student's name in a submission inbox and drag and drop the file in the submission area.
   Turnitin LTI 1.3: see .