Turnitin

Turnitin can be used in coordination with Canvas starting April 16

March 20, 2024 at 11:15 am

Turnitin is a plagiarism-prevention tool that helps you check the academic integrity of student writing. Starting April 16, 2024, the LT Hub will enable Turnitin’s “Plagiarism Framework” integration with Canvas. The new integration will allow the tools to work together more closely.

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Faculty Story: Turnitin for Arts

December 20, 2023 at 2:22 pm

Read about a UBC example of using Turnitin, featuring Dr. Xiaowen Xu, Associate Professor of Teaching, Chinese Applied Linguistics, Department of Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts. Xiaowen uses the Turnitin standalone tool to allow her students to self-check against plagiarism. Read more »


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Winter 2023 Update: UBC affirms decision to not enable Turnitin’s AI-detection feature

August 28, 2023 at 11:45 am

Plagiarism-prevention tool Turnitin released an AI-detection feature in April that attempts to check for text generated by AI-writing tools, such as ChatGPT. For a number of reasons, UBC will be maintaining its April decision not to enable the Turnitin AI-detection feature, and the university will not centrally install any AI-detection tool at this time.

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UBC not enabling Turnitin’s AI-detection feature

April 4, 2023 at 12:15 pm

Turnitin is a plagiarism-prevention tool that helps check the originality of student writing. Today Turnitin is releasing a new AI-detection feature that attempts to check for text generated by AI-writing tools, such as ChatGPT. For a number of reasons, UBC has decided not to enable the new feature in Turnitin at this time.

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Turnitin Instructor Guide

December 10, 2021 at 12:28 pm

Find UBC instructions and tips for using Turnitin, a plagiarism-prevention tool that helps you check the academic integrity of student writing. You can use Turnitin by setting up an assignment in Canvas with plagiarism review enabled. The review works by checking each student’s submission for possible matches with the papers in Turnitin’s databases and flagging any matching content for you to review. Read more »


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UBC renews plagiarism-prevention tool Turnitin

October 15, 2021 at 4:00 pm

UBC will continue to support Turnitin as its primary plagiarism-prevention tool, following the final recommendations of the Plagiarism Tools Working Group.

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Assignments & Quizzes

August 21, 2020 at 11:02 pm

Find tools to facilitate assignments and formative quizzes at UBC. Read more »


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