Plagiarism detection is the process of checking papers against external sources and identifying sections of papers that may have been copied.
There are two tools for plagiarism detection at the University of Iowa, Turnitin and iThenticate. Turnitin benefits undergraduate students compared to iThenticate, which is targeted towards academic professionals.
Turnitin
The University of Iowa has licensed Turnitin, an online, automatic similarity detection service for use with student submissions, and we encourage all instructors to utilize this tool in their ICON courses.
Students submit their papers via an ICON (Canvas) assignment, and the instructor receives an originality report showing possible matches between the submitted paper and Turnitin's database and internet resources. It is important to note that the final decision about the presence of a plagiarism lies with the instructor.
Turnitin also offers the Feedback Studio, a comprehensive grading and writing tool, which features QuickMarks, and a peer review tool, PeerMark.
Support articles, how-tos, frequently asked questions, and more are available at the Office of Teaching, Learning and Technology's Turnitin webpage.
Turnitin is available for use in ICON (Canvas).
iThenticate
iThenticate is an online recognition detection software used for academic research, theses, dissertations, and other academic work. Students, faculty, and staff will check their submissions against a database of published scholarly work for inaccuracies in citations and similar content that has not been properly summarized or paraphrased.
The iThenticate service is for postdocs, graduate students, research staff, and faculty. There is no cost for this service. There are a limited number of licenses, so accounts will need to be requested and approved ahead of use. Customers can get the service by submitting a workflow form. iThenticate is available for use at ithenticate.its.uiowa.edu after this form has been processed.
Support articles, how-tos, frequently asked questions, and more are available at the Office of Teaching, Learning and Technology's iThenticate webpage. Additionally, users can contact the ITS Help Desk with inquiries about training and OTLT can set up a meeting.
Current Status
Maintenance
Past 90 Days
Alert History
Turnitin may have disruptions in service during the maintenance window:
- Turnitin (all integrations)
- Feedback Studio for iOS
- iThenticate
- Canvas Plagiarism Framework
Full details are available on the Turnitin status page.
Turnitin / iThenticate will be down for scheduled maintenance. This maintenance window will take place during the Gradescope maintenance window on the same day.
The following services will be unavailable during this time:
- Turnitin
- Canvas Plagiarism Framework
- Feedback Studio for iOS
- iThenticate
Additional information can be found on the Turnitin status page.
The issue has been resolved.
Turnitin is experiencing an unexpected service degradation. Users may experience issues logging in or viewing similarity reports when accessing these services via the ICON integration.
Visit the Turnitin status page for details and updates.
The issue is resolved.
Turnitin is experiencing an unexpected service degradation. During this time, users may experience issues logging in or viewing Similarity reports when accessing these services via the ICON integration.
Visit the Turnitin status page for details and updates.
The issue has been resolved.
The create assignment feature is currently unavailable in the Turnitin external tool in ICON. Updates can be found on the Turnitin Status page.
The issue has been resolved.
User of Turnitin in ICON may experience an unexpected service disruption. Turnitin engineers are working to resolve the issue.
Turnitin Plagiarism Detection has scheduled a maintenance window. Both the Turnitin External Tool and the Canvas Plagiarism Framework will be unavailable during the maintenance window.
This issue is resolved.
TurnItIn is experiencing some upload delays and delays in producing receipts and similarity reports. Users may receive a message saying it could take several hours for the report to generate. Support staff are working with TurnItIn support to resolve the issue as quickly as possible.
This has now been resolved
Turnitin is experiencing a service degradation.
The Turnitin LTI external tool is experiencing issues syncing with SpeedGrader in ICON. Similarity scores and reports may not currently be visible in SpeedGrader but are still visible through the LTI external tool assignment inbox in ICON.
Similarity Reports are currently experiencing slow generation time for the External Tool and Plagiarism Framework.
The Turnitin LTI External Tool is experiencing issues syncing with SpeedGrader in ICON. Similarity scores and reports are not currently visible in SpeedGrader but are still visible through the LTI External Tool Assignment Inbox in ICON.
Turnitin and Canvas Support are working to resolve the issue as quickly as possible. This notice will be updated once we have more information.
This issue is resolved. Turnitin is reporting regular return times on Similarity reports.
A fix has been implemented and access restored to Turnitin.com and the Turnitin ICON Integration. Users may experience slowness as service is fully restored.
Turnitin plagiarism detection is down. The outage affects Turnitin.com and the Turnitin ICON integration. ITS staff are working with Turnitin to resolve the issue.
The following services will be unavailable during a planned maintenance:
- Turnitin.com
- Turnitin Canvas Plagiarism Framework
Turnitin has resolved this degradation of service.
Turnitin in ICON and Turnitin.com are experiencing intermittent issues. The vendor is aware of the problems and is working to fix it.
Turnitin may be unavailable during the maintenance window.
Turnitin may experience disruptions during the maintenance window causing the plagiarism checks to not be run.
Please contact the ITS Help Desk for help resubmitting assignments.
The issues with turnitin-enabled assignments have been resolved.
Turnitin-enabled assignments may experience issues checking for plagiarism.
This problem has been resolved.
Some Turnitin student submissions are not generating reports. This is not affecting all Turnitin assignments.
Please contact the ITS Help Desk if you notice submissions are not getting checked by Turnitin.
The issue has been resolved.
Turnitin users may be unable to make submissions via Google Drive.
Turnitin services will be unavailable for scheduled maintenance.
The issue has been resolved.
Turnitin is experiencing an unexpected service disruption. Similarity Reports may be slow to generate or not received at all.
The Turnitin service is restored. Please contact the ITS Help Desk if you experience further issues.
The Turnitin service is now down. Support staff continue to work with the vendor to restore service.
Turnitin is experiencing slowness issues with students uploading files. Users may be unable to make submissions or experience slowness with uploading submissions. Support staff are working with Turnitin support to resolve the issue.
Turnitin in ICON, Turnitin.com and Feedback Studio for iOS will be unavailable for maintenance. No submissions or grading will be possible through any of the services listed above during this time. We advise that submission deadlines be set outside of this maintenance window.
The vendor has fixed the issues with Turnitin on ICON and Turnitin.com. Please contact the ITS Help Desk if you have any problems using this service.
There are performance issues with Turnitin on ICON and Turnitin.com. Users may be unable to submit assignments or login to the service. The vendor is working on a resolution.
The issue was resolved by the vendor.
Turnitin in ICON and Turnitin.com are currently experiencing issues. Users may be unable to submit or grade assignments or login to the service. The vendor is working on a resolution.
Turnitin in ICON and Turnitin.com will be unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Users will be unable to submit and grade during this maintenance window, so please ensure that any submission deadlines are adjusted to fall outside of the window.
Turnitin in ICON, Turnitin.com and Feedback Studio for iOS will be unavailable. Users will be unable to submit and grade during this maintenance window, so please ensure that any grading or submission deadlines are adjusted to fall outside of the window.
This issue has been resolved.
Turnitin is currently experiencing a service degradation with their Evaluation Viewer service.
This issue is being investigated by the vendor.
Turnitin Scheduled Maintenance
Turnitin in ICON and Turnitin.com will be briefly unavailable for maintenance on Sunday, October 28, 2018. Users will be unable to submit and grade during this maintenance window, so please ensure that any submission deadlines are adjusted to fall outside of the window.
This issue has been resolved.
Turnitin in ICON and Turnitin.com are experiencing intermittent issues. The vendor is aware of the problems and is working to fix it.
Turnitin in ICON and Turnitin.com users will be unable to submit and grade during this maintenance window, so please ensure that any submission deadlines are adjusted to fall outside of the window.
Turnitin support have fixed the performance problems. Please contact the ITS Help Desk if you have any problems using this service.
Turnitin in ICON and Turnitin.com are experiencing issues. The vendor is aware of the problem and is working on a fix.
This issue has been resolved. Please contact the ITS Help Desk if you experience any further problems.
Turnitin.com and Turnitin in ICON are experiencing slow submission and report generation times. Some users are unable to submit large files. The vendor is working on a solution.
The following Turnitin services will be unavailable while the system undergoes performance improvements and hardware upgrades.
- Turnitin and TurnitinUK (including all integrations)
- Feedback Studio for iOS
- iThenticate
- WriteCheck
Users will be unable to submit and grade during this maintenance window. Please ensure that any submission deadlines are adjusted to fall outside of the window.
Stay up to date with Turnitin system status by following @TurnitinStatus on Twitter.
The issue has been resolved. Please contact the ITS Help Desk if you experience any other problems with this service.
Turnitin is currently experiencing a service disruption affecting system performance. ITS staff are working with the vendor to resolve this issue.
Update: Turnitin in ICON and Turnitin.com are now working correctly. Please contact the ITS Help Desk if you have any further problems using this service.
Original Notice: Turnitin in ICON and Turnitin.com are currently experiencing issues. The vendor is working on a resolution.
UPDATE: This issue has been resolved. Please contact the ITS Help Desk if you experience any further issues with Turnitin.
Original Notice: Turnitin.com is currently experiencing a service outage. ITS support staff are working to resolve the issue as soon as possible.
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Update: This issue has been resolved. Please contact the ITS Help Desk if you experience any other issues using Turnitin.
Original Notice: Users of Turnitin services may be unable to view submissions in the Feedback Studio. ITS support staff are working to resolve this issue. |
Turnitin in ICON (Canvas), Turnitin.com, and Feedback Studio for iOS will be unavailable for hardware updates and performance improvements. Users will be unable to submit and grade during this maintenance window, so please make sure that any submission deadlines are adjusted to fall outside of this window.
Update: Service performance has been restored to normal on Turnitin. Please contact the ITS Help Desk if you have any further problems using this service.
Original Notice: Users may experience slowness while making or viewing submissions. The vendor is working on a resolution.
Update: The vendor reports that the root cause of this problem has been identified and resolved. Please contact the ITS Help Desk if you have any further problems using this service.
Original notice: We are currently experiencing problems with the Turnitin service. Users receive errors when trying to submit papers or create assignments. ITS support staff are working with the vendor. We will update this notice as soon as more information is available.
UPDATE: This issue is resolved. Please contact the ITS Help Desk if you experience any further issues.
Original Notice: Turnitin Slowness: Turnitin.com and Turnitin integration in ICON (Canvas) may be experiencing slow Similarity Report generation or page errors when accessing the report. The vendor is investigating the issue.
UPDATE: This issue is resolved. Please contact the ITS Help Desk if you experience further issues with Turnitin.
Original Notice: Some Turnitin users (Canvas Integration and Turnitin.com) may be experiencing an error when attempting to leave comments through Feedback Studio. This matter is being addressed as a top priority by the vendor's engineering team.
Turnitin will be undergoing essential maintenance and will be unavailable. This includes Turnitin.com, Turnitin ICON integration and Turnitin mobile.
Please be aware that no submissions or grading will be possible through any of the services listed above during this time. We therefore advise that submission deadlines be set outside of this maintenance window.
Update: Canvas has fixed the underlying issue that caused submissions made via Turnitin LTI to return a file name of "default_filename.txt". Canvas has also run an automated script that should repair the majority of papers affected by the issue.
Original Alert: Some student submissions for Turnitin assignments are not displaying in Speedgrader in ICON, instead they are displayed as “default_filename.txt.” ITS staff are working with the vendor to resolve this issue.
In the meantime, the workaround is to use Turnitin’s Feedback Studio by going to the Grades or Assignments page and clicking on the color-coded percentage speech bubble to access and grade papers.
UPDATE: The issues with Turnitin have been resolved.
Original Notice :
Turnitin is currently down. This is affecting Turnitin.com and Turnitin in ICON (Canvas). The vendor is investigating the issue. We apologize for any inconvenience this downtime may cause you.
Turnitin Planned Maintenance: During this time, ETS e-rater® (the product used for grammar checking for Turnitin) services will be inaccessible. Turnitin.com, mobile, and Turnitin in ICON (Canvas) will be affected. Please plan usage accordingly.
UPDATE: The Turnitin website is functioning normally again. Please contact the ITS Help Desk if you experience further issues.
Original Notice: Turnitin.com users might experience issues logging in. The vendor is working to resolve this. However, Turnitin's ICON (Canvas) integration is functioning normally.
Turnitin will be undergoing essential maintenance and will be unavailable. Please be aware no submissions or grading will be possible through any of the services listed above during this time. We therefore advise that submission deadlines be set outside of this maintenance window.
The plagiarism detection service, Turnitin, will be down for maintenance to enable the new feature Turnitin Feedback Studio.
If an assignment was created using the “Enable Turnitin Submissions” check box, the legacy submissions will no longer be available in Turnitin in ICON. However, student submissions will still be available in SpeedGrader in ICON.
For more details, please refer to: https://its.uiowa.edu/news/important-turnitin-announcement
Update: The problems with Turnitin have been resolved. Please contact the ITS Help Desk if you have any further problems using this service.
Original Notice: The Turnitin services are experiencing service degradation. The vendor is investigating this and will provide updates as they become available.
The plagiarism detection service, Turnitin, will not be available during this maintenance window.
Please be aware that no submissions or grading within ICON/Canvas and Turnitin.com will be possible during this time. We therefore advise that submission deadlines be set outside of this maintenance window.
Turnitin is upgrading their internal network hardware.
Submissions and grading within ICON/Canvas and Turnitin.com that rely on the Turnitin service will be unavailable. We advise that submission deadlines be set outside of the maintenance window.
Some students using the plagiarism detection service, Turnitin.com will encounter issues when submitting their papers after the assignment due date. Turnitin is working to resolve this issue and will provide an update when one is available.