Service Summary

Turnitin, available through Canvas, checks students’ work for improper citation or potential plagiarism. Files submitted to a Turnitin assignment are compared to a database of websites, newspapers, journals, books, and other students’ papers. Turnitin Originality and Turnitin Similarity are available in Canvas.

Getting This Service

Turnitin is available for instructors to add to Assignments in Canvas. Students cannot access Turnitin directly.

Training

Training workshops are held periodically. Sign up for these workshops on MasonLEAPS.

Availability

Turnitin is available 24/7. Any outages will be announced on the Alerts & Bulletins page.

Policy

All users of the George Mason University network must adhere to University Policy Number 1301: Responsible Use of Computing.

Additional Information

Additional information is available in the Teaching & Learning section of the Knowledge Base.