In this guide, administrators can learn how to configure settings related to instructor access, report viewing, and feature availability.
In this guide:
- Admin user settings
- Restrict website access
- Submission privacy settings
- Originality add-on settings
- Deletion requests
- Assignment settings
- Classic Standard Assignment settings
The account settings page allows you to change the account name or account administrator, and the default options set at account creation.
- To begin customizing your Turnitin account settings, log in to the administrator workflow and select the applicable account from the account list page.
- Select Settings.
Depending on your licence type, there is a list of features that you turn on or off for your institution. If any of the below settings are greyed out or missing from view, they are not available for your license.
Admin user settings
The institution's account name and administrator details are listed within the admin user settings. Editing the administrator details for a user other than yourself will remove your administrator access once you select Save.
Restrict website access
Using the Turnitin website to edit classes or assignments that were created within an integrated LMS can cause usage errors on both platforms. Administrators of accounts with configured integrations can either allow instructors and students to access both their LMS and the Turnitin website or restrict access to the Turnitin website to a view-only state.
- Full access - instructors and students have full access to view and edit account details, classes, and submissions.
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View-only access - instructors and students will be able to view details for:
- personal account
- class and assignments
- submissions
- student information (instructor only)
- Disabled - Instructors and students can view the account name but cannot see classes, assignments, or submissions.
Submission privacy settings
Paper repository options
Manage the repository options that the instructors in your account have access to for their assignment settings.
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Enable instructor standard repository options:
Chosen instructors will be able to set the assignment option to either store student papers within the standard paper repository or not store the papers in any repository. -
Enable instructor expanded repository options:
Instructors will be able to set their assignment options to store student papers in the standard paper repository or the institutional repository. -
Submit all papers to the standard repository:
All student papers submitted to the account will be stored in the standard paper repository.
Submission release - student matches
If two student submissions match against each other, you can manage the privacy of your students' submissions. There are two scenarios for matching student submissions:
- Students within your institution matching to each other
- A student from an external institution matching to your student's submission
For student matches within your account and sub-accounts, you can enable or disable the ability for instructors to automatically view the full text of the matching submission for a student outside of their class.
Originality add-on settings
AI writing
AI writing detection is available as part of the Originality add-on. AI writing detection appears as part of the side panel within the Similarity Report and is designed to help educators identify text that could be prepared by a generative AI tool.
Depending on your institution’s preferences for AI writing detection, you can choose between the following options:
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Enable AI writing detection - Enables AI detection for instructors and is controlled by a parent administrator account. AI writing detection is enabled by default.
Sub-admins can turn off the setting as needed for their accounts. If the AI detection setting is disabled, it has been turned off by a parent account admin and cannot be enabled.
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Allow sub-accounts to enable AI writing detection (only editable by parent administrator roles) - Permits sub-admins to enable AI writing detection for their sub-account and their child accounts when it is not enabled at the institution-level. This setting is only editable by the parent account admin.
When a sub-account admin enables AI writing for their child accounts, sub-account admins will also be able to view the AI writing usage statistics for the account.
The AI writing setting is controlled by the top-level administrator account. Disabling the setting from the top-level account will disable AI writing access for all associated sub-accounts (unless Allow sub-accounts to enable AI writing detection is enabled). When enabled, sub-accounts can edit the setting as required.
View our AI writing guidance to learn more.
Document details (Turnitin Originality only)
The document details area appears as part of the side panel within the Similarity Report and will provide insights on a file’s metadata, as well as images and spelling usage.
View our Viewing document details guidance to learn more.
Deletion requests
When enabled, instructors have the ability to request the deletion of any submissions in their assignments. Administrators can approve or reject requests from the Manage Submissions tab of their account.
To aid with the visibility of deletion requests, administrators can delegate up to five email addresses to receive a weekly notification email listing all pending deletion requests for their account. If deletion requests are enabled, at least one email must be listed to receive the notification email. If more than one email is added, separate each with a comma.
View our Managing paper deletions guidance to learn more about managing paper deletion requests.
Administrators can still permanently delete submissions without a request if instructor requests are disabled.
Assignment settings
Assignment types
The Turnitin assignment types are only applicable if you use Turnitin via the Turnitin website or an LTI 1.3 integration. There are currently two different Turnitin assignment types available, depending on your license.
- Student Writing Assignment - a Turnitin Clarity add-on assignment. View our Creating a Student Writing assignment guidance to learn more.
- Handwritten Assignments - a Paper to Digital add-on assignment. View our Handwritten Assignment guidance to learn more.
- Standard Assignment - there are two versions of the Standard Assignment, a classic and an upgraded new version.
Learn more about our different assignment types.
The assignment settings are controlled by the top-level administrator account. Disabling an assignment from the top-level account will disable the assignment creation for all associated sub-accounts. It will not affect access to any existing assignments. When enabled, sub-accounts can edit the setting as required.
- If an assignment is not visible, it is not currently available on your license type. Reach out to your account manager to learn more.
- If it has been disabled in the past, select the checkbox to turn it on for your instructors.
- If the setting is grayed out, it has been disabled by a top-level parent account and cannot be enabled.
Standard Assignment
There are two versions of the Standard Assignment. Both versions of the assignment can be enabled for creation at the same time by selecting Instructor choice, or one version can be enabled individually.
Once you select the New Standard Assignment type for your Turnitin account, we strongly recommend keeping this setting. Changing it later may result in losing access to submissions for assignments that were copied when using the LMS workflow.
Turnitin website workflows
Hide legacy features within the Turnitin website that are not compatible with the new version of the Standard Assignment. These features include:
- Class preferences tab
- Class QuickMark breakdown
- Class calendar tab
- Class summary column
- Class Learning Analytics column
- Instructor Libraries tab
- Gradebook tab
- Discussion boards tab
This setting will be enabled by default if the new version of the Standard Assignment is enabled.
Classic Standard Assignment settings
All settings within the Classic Standard Assignment section do not affect any other assignment type, including the new version of the Standard Assignment.
These features are available for the new version of the Standard Assignment, they are simply enabled or disabled at the assignment level.
Anonymous marking
Anonymous marking masks any identifiable student personal information (name, email address, and student ID) from appearing anywhere within the assignment workflow, including while grading student submissions.
If an instructor identifies collusion in a paper at any point during marking, they will have the ability to reveal the student's name. If a student's name has been revealed, an audit trail will be created, and the administrator will receive a notification. You will also receive the instructor's reason for unveiling a student's name in order for any issues to be properly investigated.
Anonymous marking can only be enabled or disabled from the parent account and cannot be edited from sub-accounts. The setting will be greyed out when viewed from the settings of a sub-account.
Online grading
Manage whether instructors have the ability to grade and leave feedback directly on student submissions using Feedback Studio. Instructors can create and utilize rubrics, QuickMarks, and commenting tools.
Access to online grading is dependent on your institution's license type. If the setting is not visible and you would like access for your institution, reach out to your Turnitin account manager to learn more.
Translated matching
Translated matching allows students to submit content in a non-English language, whilst retaining the ability to match against our database of English language content.
If enabled, Turnitin will identify the language that a paper has been written in. This paper will then be fully translated into English. The resulting English language content is then matched against all the databases that have been activated for the assignment. If a match is found, this will be displayed alongside any matches we have found in the non-translated version of the paper.
Translated matching currently supports the following languages:
Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Bulgarian, Burmese, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified & Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dari, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, Georgian, German, Greek, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Khmer, Korean, Kurdish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Norwegian, Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovakian, Slovenian, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese
View our Using Translated Matching guidance to learn more.
New Similarity Report experience
Institutions using Originality Check can begin the transition to the enhanced report experience.
Administrators with Originality Check have the ability to:
- Make the new, enhanced Similarity Report experience the only version of the report viewer instructors and students can use.
- Enable the new Similarity Report experience as optional for instructors. This will allow instructors to switch between classic and new report views. Students will still only use the classic report view.
- Opt out of the new Similarity Report experience. This will disable the new report completely for all users.
View our Enhanced Similarity Report instructor guides to learn more about how to use the new view.