TurnItIn Originality Check is a tool that your instructors can use to detect plagiarism in student submissions.

How TurnItIn Works

• Any instructor can decide to activate TurnItIn for any Assignment folders in their course. If they do, all student work submitted to that Assignment folder will be scanned.
• When a student submits a file to a TurnItIn-enabled Assignment folder, that file is transmitted to TurnItIn.
• TurnItIn's system reads the document, and uses an algorithm to compare the document to an enormous database of Internet sources, published sources, and past student work. It identifies and highlights text in the document that matches another source in the database.
• When it's done, an Originality Report is sent back to your Instructor. This report highlights sections of the document that TurnItIn believes were taken from another source.
• The Originality Report is also assigned an Originality Score. This is the percentage of text in the document that TurnItIn believes came from existing sources. A higher Originality Score tends to indicate that more of the document was not original work by the student who submitted it.
• The instructor can activate an option that lets students see the Originality Report. However, not all instructors choose to do this.

TurnItIn AI Scan

TurnItIn has recently added a feature that analyzes student submissions and looks for signs that parts of the document were written by an AI text generator, rather than by the student. The results of this scan will be displayed to the instructor, but will not be shown to students, even if the instructor elects to show the rest of the Originality Report to students.