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Baltimore City Community College

Turnitin Instructions for Students

Instructions on Submitting an Assignment with Turnitin 1. Navigate to the assignment within your course in Canvas.

2. You will notice under the Submitting information that Turnitin is enabled. Click the Submit Assignment button.

3. Submit the assignment as you normally would. In the

case of this example, the assignment wants you to

submit in the text entry box. If this were a file upload

assignment, you would need to upload your essay as a

Word document or other accepted file. Because

Turnitin is enabled, you will need to click on the

checkbox confirming that the submission is your own,

original work before you can submit it.

4. The assignment is now submitted. Turnitin will now

proceed to generate an originality report for the

submission. By default, both you and your instructor

can view this originality report.

Note: Instructors have the ability to disable student viewing of the reports. If this is the case, then you will

not be able to access it.

Note: The originality report is not generated immediately. It will usually be ready within 24 hours of

submission, but depends on the volume of submissions.

Instructions for Viewing the Originality Report as a Student 1. You can view the originality report once it’s been generated. Start by navigating to the course in which you

submitted the assignment.

Note: Instructors have the ability to disable student viewing of the reports. If this is the case, then these

instructions will not work.

2. Go to the Grades section using the Course Navigation Menu on the left.

3. Find the assignment that you submitted in your grades list. If the originality report is complete, then there will

be a small colored icon on the right. Click on the icon to view the originality report.

4. The report will open in a new page or tab in your web browser. You

may have to agree to Turnitin’s terms of service before viewing the

report.

5. The report will highlight portions of your submission that it has found

matches for in its databases (which include web sites, periodicals,

journal articles, other student submissions, etc.). These highlights will

be color coded (and numbered) and correspond to the sources listed

on the right. The percentage at the top indicates how much of the

submission matches other sources. Each smaller percentage

corresponds to a particular source.