In this guide:
Standard Assignment
The Standard Assignment is included in your Turnitin Feedback Studio or Originality Check license when using Turnitin’s website or LTI learning management systems.
Files and documents can be submitted to this assignment by students or their instructor. Similarity Reports can be generated for text-based submissions and, depending on your license type, grading and feedback tools and AI writing detection are also available.
There are currently two versions of the Standard Assignment, the classic version, and a new upgraded version. The version that you are able to create will depend on your institution’s account settings, contact your administrator for more information.
Learn more about this assignment from our instructor guidance:
The new version of the Standard Assignment type is currently only available for the Turnitin Feedback Studio license type.
| Feature | Classic | New |
|---|---|---|
| Classic Similarity Report | ✅ | ❌ |
| Enhanced Similarity Report | ❌ | ✅ |
| Classic grading and feedback tools | ✅ | ❌ |
| Enhanced grading and feedback tools | ❌ | ✅ |
| Flags | ✅ | ✅ |
| AI writing detection (license dependent) | ✅ | ✅ |
| Anonymous grading | ✅ | ✅ |
| Translated matching (license dependent) | ✅ | ✅ |
| Individual extensions | ❌ | ✅ |
| PeerMark | ✅ | ❌ |
Student Writing with Turnitin Clarity
The Student Writing assignment, part of the Turnitin Clarity add-on, offers a dedicated space for students to compose their work.
Ideal for essays, reflections, and research papers, this assignment gives instructors a window into the writing process through the Writing Report. After the due date passes, the Similarity Report, grading and feedback tools, and AI Writing Report are also available, depending on your institution’s license type.
Learn more about this assignment from our instructor guidance by viewing: Introduction to Turnitin Clarity's Student Writing Assignment
Student Writing can be accessed on Turnitin.com or TurnitinUK.com, but an LTI 1.3 integration is recommended for an optimum experience.
Handwritten Assignments
This assignment type is for paper-based, short answer exams or assignments. It allows instructors to scan and digitize paper-based work for online grading. Students do not submit to this assignment, the instructor uploads the work on behalf of the student and then grades the digitized submissions with AI-assistance. Once all submissions have been graded, the instructor will publish the grades.
Similarity and integrity checks are not available with this assignment type.
With handwritten assignments, you’ll grade question by question for all submissions instead of grading one student’s entire submission and moving on to the next submission.
The following question types are supported:
- Multiple choice - The multiple choice question type is for questions where students fill in bubbles or check squares.
- Fill in the blank - This question type can be used for both math and text questions and are for questions that will have answers with English-language text and/or of math notation.
‘Multiple choice’ and ‘fill in the blank’ question types can utilize AI-assisted answer grouping for faster grading.
- Other - The other question type is for questions that would contain open responses, diagrams, chemical equations and structures, and maps.
Handwritten assignments launch in our ‘Paper to Digital’ application. Within the application, you will be able to upload submissions, do the grading and feedback work, as well as keep a record of student grades for the assignment. Students will view their graded submissions within this application as well.
Grade syncing and passback is only available with LMS’s at this time; grades cannot be synced to the Turnitin Feedback Studio gradebook.