Viewing your Turnitin report
Go to your Assignment to retrieve your Turnitin report and instructor comments for a Turnitin assignment in Canvas. Depending on how your instructor set up Turnitin, you will see one of two things. In most cases, you will see a view similar to the one in Fig 1A. In some cases, you will see a view like the one in Fig 1B. In either case, select the percentage score on or next to the color-coded flag.
Figure 1A: Turnitin assignment submission details
Figure 1B: Alternative Turnitin assignment submission details
A PDF of your work will appear in the Turnitin document viewer (See Fig. 2).
Figure 2: Student view of Turnitin Feedback Studio submission
Icon legend
- Access the thumbnail bar
- Show active layers
- Feedback layer
- Similarity Index score - not available in most assignments
- Show all sources identified in the Similarity Report - not available in most assignments
- Filters and settings for Similarity Report - not available in most assignments
- Download the current view, a digital receipt or the originally submitted paper
- View information about the submission
- A grade, if it has been assigned - not available in most assignments
Navigation
Select the black tab on the left-hand side of the screen to access the thumbnail bar, which allows you to navigate quickly from page to page (See Fig. 3).
Figure 3: Page navigation
Similarity report
Your Similarity Index score (number 4 in Figure 2, above) will be displayed in red on the toolbar. The Similarity Index indicates how much of the text in your paper matches text found in the Turnitin database, which includes online journals, websites and submitted student work. The higher the similarity index, the greater the amount of text in your paper that matches sources found in the Turnitin database.
The Similarity Report will not only provide the similarity index as a summary, it will flag the specific passages that match sources in the database and indicate where the matching text is found. Select the source number to show the matching source (See Fig. 4).
Figure 4: Turnitin passages matching sources found in the Turnitin database
Note: The Similarity Report is NOT a determination of whether plagiarism has occurred.
- If your instructor has set up the assignment to allow you to view the Originality Report and revise your work before a final submission, use this information to check that you have paraphrased your work appropriately and cited your sources correctly. See the Plagiarism and Copyright page from University of Missouri Libraries for more help. Don’t forget that the Online Writery is a resource for you.
- If you are receiving your Originality Report as part of your final grade, the determination of whether plagiarism has occurred is at your instructor’s discretion. If your instructor believes that you have plagiarized part of your paper, use this discussion as a springboard for learning how you can improve your paraphrasing and citation skills.
Feedback layer - not available in all reports
Select the feedback layer (No. 3 in Figure 2 above, in blue) to view your instructor’s feedback for your paper.
If your instructor has inserted an inline comment, you will see a speech bubble icon where the comment appears (See Fig. 5).
Figure 5: Speech bubble icon
Select the speech bubble to open the comment (See Fig 6). Comments might also appear as inline text.
Figure 6: Inline Comment
Downloading your Turnitin reports
Select the Download button (No. 7 in Figure 2) to download the current view, a digital receipt or the originally submitted paper.
For example, to download all reports, highlight the Grading layer (blue) and the Similarity layer (red), and then select the Download button and choose "Current View" (See Fig. 8).
Figure 8: Download options
Your downloaded PDF file will contain your submitted paper with comments marked; at the end of the paper, you will find a summary of all comments.
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