In this guide:
- Why does our institution need to upgrade to Turnitin's LTI 1.3?
- What are the end of support dates?
- How does this affect Turnitin LTI 1.1 assignments in my past courses?
- How does this affect new Turnitin LTI 1.3 assignments created in my current courses?
- What are the enhancements that I will gain with LTI 1.3?
- What changes to existing workflows do I need to be aware of?
- How does this affect Turnitin LTI 1.1 assignments that have been copied from past courses into current courses?
- What happens to QuickMarks, rubrics, and PeerMark questions that I created?
- What support guides are available to assist me and my students?
Why does our institution need to upgrade to Turnitin's LTI 1.3?
As part of Turnitin’s commitment to providing the best customer experience and helping you get the most out of our solutions, we are encouraging our customers who have Turnitin's LTI 1.1 integrated in D2L Brightspace to upgrade to Turnitin's LTI 1.3. This upgrade provides additional security improvements as well as additional enhancements such as roster syncing, easier assignment creation, and better grade pass back service.
Please note that Turnitin plans to end support of the Turnitin LTI 1.1 integration with D2L on June 30, 2026 and to deprecate this integration entirely on December 31, 2026. In addition, this upgrade does not affect users of the Turnitin V2 custom integration (which places the option to use Turnitin’s Feedback Studio directly within the D2L Assignment workflow itself). If you have both integrations in your D2L Brightspace environment, we recommend updating the LTI 1.1 integration only. This workflow is mainly used for PeerMark assignments.
To learn more about Turnitin's LTI 1.3, please see Turnitin Feedback Studio & LTI integrations. You may also view our comparison chart of the integrations that we offer to our D2L customers that use Feedback Studio.
What are the end of support dates?
The end of support date for Turnitin's LTI 1.1 integration with D2L Brightspace is on June 30, 2026. You can update your integration till this date during the time that works best for your academic schedule.
D2L will continue to support LTI 1.1 for other tools for the foreseeable future. In addition, Turnitin will continue to support our V2 and LTI 1.3 integrations with D2L.
How does this affect Turnitin LTI 1.1 assignments in my past courses?
This change does not affect Turnitin LTI 1.1 assignments in your past courses. You can still access those LTI 1.1 assignments in past courses as needed.
How does this affect new Turnitin LTI 1.3 assignments created in my current courses?
Because the LTI 1.3 integration is deep linking, creating the assignment via the Content workflow is a more streamlined process (resulting in less clicking and duplication of assignment information in both Turnitin and D2L Brightspace). For more information, view our guidance on how to create a D2L LTI 1.3 assignment.
What are the enhancements that I will gain with LTI 1.3?
- Overall improved user interface for you (and your students) including seeing at a glance which students have submitted or not to the assignment via the Assignment Inbox
- Easier assignment creation workflow
- Paper deletion request workflow
- Access to the Assignment Copy tool
- Access to Paper to Digital which enables instructors to grade handwritten assignments more efficiently by clustering similar responses for multiple-choice questions, short answers, and equations (For a hands-on experience, try our self-guided demo).
- Ability to resync grades to the LMS gradebook as needed
- Access to assignment level insights within the LTI inbox including robust assignment analytics and Flags
- Roster syncing function that updates every time the assignment is launched; because this is based on the D2L Brightspace course roster, this means that students that have been added to the class or dropped from the class will show in the assignment inbox automatically
- Ability to submit an assignment on behalf of a student as needed
What changes to existing workflows do I need to be aware of?
Because this workflow is primarily used for creating PeerMark assignments, there is no change to the existing workflow.
Please note that dropped or deactivated students will be removed from the Turnitin assignment inbox. They will also be dropped from the course via turnitin.com. If you need to see a submission made by students that have been dropped from a course, please contact your Turnitin admin. They will work with Turnitin Support to provide a copy of the Feedback Studio report/submission as a secured file.
How does this affect Turnitin LTI 1.1 assignments that have been copied from past courses into current courses?
When launched, past LTI 1.1 assignments will convert automatically to LTI 1.3 assignments in the current course when the admin enables Auto Migrate Links when setting up the LTI 1.3 integration. Please refer to our guidance for using Turnitin assignment copy and for LMS course copy recommendations.
What happens to QuickMarks, rubrics, and PeerMark questions that I created?
Your QuickMarks, rubrics and grading forms, and PeerMark questions that have been saved will be available to you for your new LTI 1.3 assignments. Instructors can also export QuickMarks and rubrics and grading forms and import them as needed. See our guidance below.
If there is an issue with accessing them, please contact Turnitin support for assistance.