How-to: Enable Piazza

1. Go to the Settings area of your course site
2. Click the Navigation tab
3. Locate Piazza in the list and click the three dots to the right of “Piazza”
4. Select Enable
5. Save your changes on this page
6. Next, click the Piazza link that now appears in your course’s left navigation menu

You will be prompted to set up your Piazza site. If you have already created a Piazza site that you would like to link to your Canvas site, use the “Already have a class on Piazza?” prompts. Note: while you will be required to enter an estimated enrollment, this will not impact anything if your actual class enrollment is either more or less than the estimated enrollment.

How-to: Enable Turnitin on an assignment

The first step in enabling Turnitin is to create a Canvas assignment. You can do this either through the Assignments area of Canvas or within a Module.

1. When editing the assignment, set the Submission Type to Online and check either the Text Entry and/or File Uploads box.
   
   
2. From the Plagiarism Review area, select “Turnitin-Plagiarism Framework 2021”.
   
   
3. Select the Turnitin options you would like to enable for your assignment.
   a. The Store submissions in: dropdown allows you to choose if your student’s work will be stored in Turnitin’s database of submissions. If you are enabling Turnitin on a draft assignment and expect students to make changes to their submission and resubmit to a final assignment, we highly recommend you select the “Do not store the submitted papers” option so that student final submissions will not return a high match against their draft submission.
   
   b. The next options allow you to specify what resources Turnitin should check student submissions against and whether you want any portions of student submissions excluded from the plagiarism check.
   
   c. The last option involves selecting when (if at all) students can view their originality report. This is the report that details what % of their submission matched against Turnitin’s database.

Viewing Originality Reports

To view Turnitin’s originality reports

1. Go to the Grades area of your Canvas site.
2. Submissions that carry a Turnitin originality report will appear with a colored tab in the grade cell.
   
   
3. Enter SpeedGrader from the assignment. On the far right side of the page a percentage will appear in a colored box.
   
   
4. Click on the percentage to be taken to the Turnitin originality report. Portions of the paper that match outside sources will be highlighted.
   
   
   NOTE: In general, a matching score below 33% is considered low. If you are utilizing a template that students fill out for an assignment, a higher match can be expected as each submission will return a match on the template itself.
   

Create an assignment with additional Turnitin features:

The Turnitin External Tool assignment type allows instructors to utilize additional Turnitin features from within their Canvas course. This assignment type is recommended for instructors that want to use Turnitin’s Feedback Studio for grading, or create PeerMark assignments. 

Please note that this assignment type cannot be used for Canvas Group or Peer Review assignments.

View the how-to documentation here...