Turnitin's AI writing detection capability is designed to help educators identify text that might be prepared by a generative AI tool such as large-language models, chatbots, and word spinners.
Our AI writing detection model may not always be accurate (it may misidentify human-written, AI-generated, and AI-generated and AI-paraphrased text), so it should not be used as the sole basis for adverse actions against a student. It takes further scrutiny and human judgment in conjunction with an organization's application of its specific academic policies to determine whether any academic misconduct has occurred.
The percentage generated by Turnitin’s AI writing detection model is different, and independent of, the similarity score. AI writing highlights are not visible in the Similarity Report.
How to use Turnitin's AI Detector in Canvas
- To use the AI detector in Canvas, you must have students submit their papers to a Turnitin assignment. Please see the Creating a Turnitin Assignment article to learn how to add these assignments to your course in Canvas.
- Students submit their papers and Turnitin will generate a report that includes:
- Similarity report: The same detailed similarity report available in the plagiarism framework is accessible via the Feedback Studio.
- Quickmarks: Instructors can create a library of comments and feedback that can be reused when grading submissions.
- Rubrics and forms: With Turnitin's flexible rubric tool, instructors can create scoring rubrics with weighted criteria as well as qualitative rubrics and grading forms.
- eRater® feedback: Automated checking for grammar, usage, mechanics, style and spelling errors; provides in-depth feedback with on-paper marks.
- AI Writing Report: The percentage shown in the AI writing detection indicator and in the AI writing report is the amount of qualifying text within the submission that Turnitin’s AI writing detection model determines was generated by AI (with 98% confidence based on data that was collected and verified in a controlled lab environment).
- To access the report and Feedback Studio tools from the Assignment Inbox, select the percentage icon in the "Similarity" column. Then, click on the AI box from the report to open the full AI detection analysis window:
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