Turnitin services are available at the University to support assessment on our taught programmes, and as a development tool for students to increase their awareness of plagiarism in their academic writing. Staff are primarily supported to access Turnitin originality checking via an assignment in Canvas, delivered to students who will directly submit their submissions to the assignment.

However there are also times when Turnitin is used for applications outside of teaching & learning, and a couple of techniques are outlined below. We do not advise passing other people's work through Turnitin without their consent however - depending upon the method taken this may be against Turnitin's terms and conditions, but may also lead to false positive in the future leading back to the University. If there is a requirement within your team, then speak to your school administration team to discuss your requirements.

Method 1: Set up a Canvas assignment using the Turnitin Plagiarism Framework and submit as the Test Student

1. Create a new Canvas assignment within a course (for example a Personal Test Course) following these instructions: https://liverpool.instructure.com/courses/306/pages/turn-on-similarity-report-for-speedgrader-assignments?module_item_id=1179009

1. Use the 'Test Student' button to impersonate a student, and submit document to the assignment: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/How-do-I-view-a-course-as-a-test-student-using-Student-View/ta-p/1122

1. Leave Student View and enter SpeedGrader for the assignment to access the originality report: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/How-do-I-view-plagiarism-assignments-in-SpeedGrader/ta-p/852

Method 2: Set up a Turnitin assignment on the Turnitin server and submit a single submission as a non-enrolled student

Following these instructions from IT Services: https://liverpool.service-now.com/sp?id=kb_article_view&sysparm_article=KB0010521