Turnitin Similarity Information & Resources

What is Turnitin Similarity?

Turnitin Similarity helps safeguard institutional reputation and intellectual property by protecting against copy/paste plagiarism, student collusion, and research misconduct through a scalable workflow integrated with MSU's LMS (Canvas). Turnitin promises to provide a clean, intuitive, and thorough, similarity report, with a database containing 1.8 billion student submissions, current and historical Internet sources, and works from over 2,000 publishers to match against as well as a flags panel for highlighting active attempts at misconduct.

Turnitin articles:

• The Similarity Report explained

How does Turnitin Similarity work?

Turnitin articles:

• Accessing the Similarity Report
• Navigating the Similarity Report
• Additional Similarity articles...

Turnitin videos:

• Understanding the Similarity Report
• How to create a Similarity assignment in Canvas
• How a student submits to a Turnitin assignment and accesses the Similarity Report in Canvas

What training and support is available?

• Turnitin in Canvas webinar recording 
• Schedule a Canvas Corner session and a member of the Service Desk will be happy to assist you.

For other questions, issues, or assistance, please Contact the ITS Service Desk.