Turnitin release notes

On this page, review any information or notes related to our most-recent releases, including Turnitin Feedback Studio, Originality Check, Similarity, and SimCheck.

2025 release notes

April 2025

2025 April 11

Updated access restrictions via SSO

Turnitin Administrators can now manage single-sign on (SSO) access to their organization’s Turnitin account when using Turnitin Similarity or SimCheck based on user attributes from your identity provider (like department, role, or location).

This release will help administrators:

• Streamline access management by leveraging existing identity provider groups and attributes
• Maintain stronger security by ensuring only authorized team members can access the account
• Reduce manual user management with automated, attribute-based access control

When enabling SSO, administrators can specify the attribute pairs in their SSO configuration that define who should have access. To start using SSO for your organization, visit our help center to raise a ticket and our team will help you through the setup process.

• Additional resources: Setting up SSO for Similarity or SimCheck
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2025 April 10

Updated submitted works visibility in the new Similarity Report view

We’ve updated the submitted works visibility features in the new, enhanced Similarity Report experience. Now, when viewing the Sources list with Show overlapping sources on:

1. Source cards will indicate the number of submitted works (currently “student papers” for Feedback Studio, Originality Check and Originality Check+ licenses) or similar URLS matched.
2. Selecting View other sources under the matched text within a source card displays the list of all submitted works or similar URLs containing the same text.
3. For accounts with Submission release enabled, and text is matched with another submission to the same institution, instructors can download the matched submission by selecting Download Source File from the Source Details.

• Additional resources:
  • Administrator guide to Submission release in account settings
  • Matches to submitted works in the new, enhanced Similarity Report
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2025 April 9

New in Handwritten Work: Student upload

With Paper to Digital, instructors can now allow students to upload their submissions as a PDF file directly. This update introduces new settings for instructors to set start and due dates and choose to allow late submissions and/or resubmissions.

The core functionality includes:

• The ability for students to upload submissions (single PDF file only) on mobile (browser) and desktop
• The ability for instructors to set start and due dates
• The option for instructors to allow late submissions, in which case students can submit once after the due date if they have not yet submitted
• The option for instructors to allow resubmissions, in which case students can submit as many times as possible before the due date
• The ability for instructors to upload on behalf of students whether or not the student has already uploaded a submission
• The ability for students to see history of submission titles, dates, and times

Student upload is available for the following languages: Dutch, French, German, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Traditional Chinese, Vietnamese, Simplified Chinese, Swedish, Italian, Russian, Romanian, Czech, Finnish, and Polish.

• Additional resources: We have new and updated guidance available to help instructors and students learn more about this new feature.
  • Guidance for instructors
    • Creating a Handwritten Assignment
    • Submitting on behalf of a student
    • Reviewing your students’ submissions
    • Grading a Handwritten Assignment
    • Reviewing, publishing, and downloading grades
    • Scoring criteria and settings
    • Handwritten Assignments FAQ
  • Guidance for students
    • Submitting to a Handwritten Assignment
    • How to scan your submission to a PDF
    • Reviewing your grade and feedback
      
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2025 April 2

New AI detection writing detection capabilities for Japanese submissions

• Additional resources: AI Writing guidance in Japanese
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March 2025

2025 March 6

guides.turnitin now fully available in Spanish and Japanese. Essential guidance also available for other languages

We are happy to announce the translation of guides.turnitin into Spanish and Japanese. This guidance is available to access from the language dropdown menu on all pages of guides.turnitin.

This fresh translation of our product guidance provides our Spanish and Japanese speaking customers with access to the newly structured Turnitin guides that we launched in English in 2024. These translations will be periodically updated inline with updates made to the English guidance over the year.

We are also launching ‘Turnitin Essential Guidance’ for other languages. Turnitin Essential Guidance is a selection of our highest impact guidance pages that will help our global users navigate our most popular workflows in their native language. We are releasing Turnitin Essential Guidance for the following languages:

• Brazilian Portuguese
• Dutch
• Italian
• Turkish
• French
• Vietnamese
• Korean
• German
• Chinese, traditional
• Chinese, simplified
• Arabic

• Additional resources:
  • https://guides.turnitin.com/hc/es
  • https://guides.turnitin.com/hc/ja
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February 2025

2025 February 6

Updated highlight colors improve accessibility in the new report experience

Highlighted text in the new Similarity Report and AI writing detection views have new colors for match groups, sources, and text likely written or likely written and paraphrased using AI. The updates to the highlight colors optimize contrast levels for improved accessibility, with a focus on enhanced text readability.

• Additional resources: Learn more about Turnitin’s commitment to accessibility
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The Document Details setting is now centralized for accounts with Turnitin Feedback Studio and Originality

We have centralized the Document Details setting, which enables additional metadata in the Similarity Report, between Turnitin Feedback Studio and Originality. Previously, the administrators had to update the setting in both Feedback Studio and Originality to achieve congruent functionality. Now administrators need only to update the consolidated setting in one place (either Feedback Studio or Originality) in order to apply to all environments.

• Additional resources: Account settings for Turnitin Feedback Studio and Originality Check
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January 2025

2025 January 1

ETS e-Rater removed from all Turnitin products

Educational Testing Services (ETS) will no longer be supporting their e-rater grammar service in 2025. As a result, Turnitin has removed e-rater from all of its products.

Please note that any ETS feedback previously generated before e-rater was removed will still be accessible within the Similarity Report. However, if a new report is generated, the feedback will be removed, and it won't be possible to retrieve it.

In the absence of grammar checking provided via e-rater, we recommend using Turnitin Draft Coach to provide grammar checks for students while drafting in Microsoft Word on the Web or Google Docs. If you are interested in using Draft Coach, please reach out to your account manager.

• Additional resources: N/A
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2024 release notes

December 2024

2024 December 18

Accessibility update - Keyboard navigation

We have made an accessibility improvement for uploading submissions to the Feedback Studio assignment inbox. This improvement should make it easier to navigate the page using a keyboard.

• Additional resources: N/A
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November 2024

2024 November 26

Bulk download user list

Administrators are able to download a .csv file of their account’s user list.

This functionality is available from the User area of your account. Select the user list you want to download from the side menu (Active, Pending, or Deactivated) and then select the Bulk Download button to download the list as a .csv file.

• Additional resources: Downloading your account's user list
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2024 November 21

New PDF version of the new, enhanced Similarity Report

We have released a new PDF version of the new, enhanced Similarity Report. Select the download icon at the top of the report and then select Similarity Report to download the PDF. The report will download directly to your device.

 

 

A notification will appear to let you know when your report has downloaded.

The new PDF report

This new PDF report contains three sections.

Cover Page

The first section is the Cover Page. This contains the title of the submission, the author name, and the Document Details of the submission. These details include:

• Submission ID
• Submission Date
• Download Date
• File Name
• File Size

It also contains a breakdown of the pages, words, and characters of the submission.

The page number refers to the amount of pages of the submission not including the Cover Page and the Integrity Overview.

Integrity Overview

The second section is the Integrity Overview. Split over multiple pages, the first page contains the overall similarity of the submission along with details of match groups, a breakdown of the types of source making up the top sources , and any integrity flags found. The pages beyond that contain a list of all the top sources and the % of similarity found for them in the submission.

Submission

The rest of the PDF contains the submission. The similarity highlighting will be present on the submission text and can be cross referenced to the sources in the Integrity Overview section.

• Additional resources: Downloading and sharing the Similarity Report
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2024 November 14

Bug fix - QuickMark and comment visibility issues

We have resolved an issue within grading and feedback that was affecting the visibility of QuickMarks and comments.

Instructors could not access the description field of their QuickMarks. Students were also unable to see any comments on their submission that have been left by their instructor.

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September 2024

2024 September 12

New AI detection writing detection capabilities for Spanish submissions

2024 September 12

New Similarity Report: The side panel can now be hidden for more focus on the document

Selecting the arrow icon just to the left of the side panel will hide it from view. Select the arrow icon again, which will be pointing in the reverse direction, to show the side panel.

• Additional resources: Navigating the new, enhanced Similarity Report: Hiding the side panel
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2024 September 10

New security measures for sensitive information changes

In order to protect you and your institution's data, Turnitin has updated the workflow in which user information can be edited. Any changes you make to your email address and/or password will need to be confirmed via an email link.

Email links will expire after 1 hour.

• Additional resources: Changing your security information
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August 2024

2024 August 8

Digital receipts for the new inbox

Users accessing Turnitin through their browser will now receive a digital receipt when submitting through the new inbox experience.

• Additional resources: N/A
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2024 August 8

Automatic upgrade to new, enhanced Similarity Report for all non-TFS accounts

All accounts (excluding Turnitin Feedback Studio) now have the new, enhanced Similarity Report view enabled. Administrators still have settings that allow them to disable the new report view for all users, or give instructors the choice to use either the classic report and new report views.

The new Similarity Report view is designed to provide an enhanced experience and improved accessibility, making it easier to interpret results. Updated features include:

• New Match Groups feature makes it easier to interpret similarity matches in the report (English submissions only)
• Report viewer remembers previous settings: the last viewed report mode becomes the default when reports are opened again using the same web browser on the same computer
• A fully redesigned PDF download includes a cover page that lists the institution name, class, and assignment information
• Document text is readable by a screen reader
• Document text can be copied and pasted while viewing the report
• Exclude individual text match instances from a report
• Exclude matches to content repositories while viewing the report: student paper repository, internet, and publications
• Exclude small matches by word count (only from the report)

• Additional resources:
  • Overview of the new Similarity Report experience
  • Managing user access to the new, enhanced Similarity Report
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July 2024

2024 July 30

Updated password security measures

In order to protect you and your institution's data, Turnitin has released functionality to check passwords that are known to be insecure (e.g. exposed in a non-Turnitin data leak). Turnitin will identify these passwords when users try to log in and request a password reset to proceed.

We will also run these checks at the time of password creation and reset.

• Additional resources: Learn more about insecure passwords
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2024 July 30

We have fixed a formatting issue with our assignment inbox

We have released a fix for a formatting issue that was impacting the assignment inbox.

There have also been changes to the display of the inbox. The timestamp of the submission is now only visible when hovering over the submission date. Late submissions will still be highlighted red.

• Additional resources: N/A
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2024 July 23

Change to sort order of assignments in class view

There has been a change to the sort order of assignments in the class view. 

Previously, we had the assignment list sorted by the oldest assignment first by order created ascending from the top of the list, not by the oldest due date.

With this release, the assignment order has been changed by due date descending from the top of the list. If there is no due date, the assignment setup date will be used. In other words, the future/upcoming due date (or latest setup date) at the top of list then the oldest due date towards the bottom.

• Additional resources: N/A
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2024 July 23

We have released Paper to Digital for Turnitin website users

Turnitin is excited to release Paper to Digital, a new add-on for Turnitin Feedback Studio users who use the Turnitin website. 

Paper to Digital is an application designed for educators that use paper-based assessments in their classrooms. After purchase, when the add-on is enabled by administrators, instructors will have access to a new assignment type, Handwritten Assignments. Selecting this assignment type will launch the Paper to Digital application where instructors will be able to scan and upload paper-based assessments with short-answer work. This assignment type is best used with the following question types: multiple choice, fill in the blank (with text and/or of math notation), and questions that contain open responses, diagrams, chemical equations and structures, or maps.

Once the instructor has uploaded the assignments, they will also complete their grading and feedback work from within the application. The application contains the record of student grades for the assignment and is also where students view their graded submissions.

When grading a Handwritten Assignment, instructors can utilize the following features for an improved and faster grading experience:

• Automatic roster-matching - Once student work has been uploaded, Paper to Digital will detect students’ handwriting and automatically assign submissions to the correct student on the course roster.
• AI-assisted answer grouping - For certain question types, Paper to Digital will find and cluster together all similar answers into Answer Groups for instructors to review and grade for each question. With Answer Groups, instructors grade them once and the grade will automatically apply to all students’ answers in the group.
• Dynamic scoring and feedback - Instructors can create, edit, and grade with flexible scoring criteria (similar to rubrics) and feedback as they grade submissions. This allows for consistent and efficient grading.

Handwritten Assignments are available for the following languages: English, Turkish, Spanish, German, Dutch, Portuguese, French, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese and Traditional Chinese.

• Additional resources: We have comprehensive guidance available to help customers learn more about this new assignment type. For administrators looking to enable Handwritten Assignments for their account, check out our guidance for enabling Handwritten Assignments. For instructors looking to understand how to use the Handwritten Assignment type, check out our instructor guidance for Handwritten Assignments. To understand how students review their submissions to the Handwritten Assignment type, check out our student guidance for Handwritten Assignments.
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2024 July 16

Interactive detection categories with AI paraphrasing, word count increase, and updated low score treatment

Turnitin is excited to release new updates to our AI writing report, including a new visual design, detection categories with AI paraphrasing detection, and an increase to our maximum word count detection.

The AI writing report updates will apply to newly submitted files. To access the latest AI writing report on existing submissions, please resubmit the file to generate the updated report.

In this release, you’ll find the following updates: 

Improved report experience
The previous AI writing report score reflected the amount of likely AI generated text detected, even if it was likely modified by an AI paraphrasing tool or word spinner. In the updated report, the AI writing score is divided into two detection categories with submission highlights enabling a more granular review of AI tools used in the submission. The new submission breakdown bar provides a visual overview of the AI detection instances throughout the submission. 

 

 

Interactive detection categories
In the updated report, the AI writing score is divided into two detection categories, AI-generated only and AI-generated text that was AI-paraphrased. These categories provide more granularity into what AI capabilities were likely used and where, as well as their frequency within the submission. Selecting a category will bring the first highlight detected in the submission into focus.

AI-generated only
This category detects qualifying text that was likely generated from a Large Language Model (LLM). Text of this category is highlighted in a cyan color in the submission breakdown bar and in the submission highlights.  

AI-generated text that was AI-paraphrased
This category detects qualifying text that was likely AI-generated and then likely modified by an AI-paraphrasing tool or AI word spinner, such as Quillbot. Text of this category is highlighted in a purple color in the submission breakdown bar and in the submission highlights.

Interactive submission breakdown bar
Use the new submission breakdown bar for a visual overview of where an AI Large Language Model and AI-paraphrasing tools have been detected within the individual pages of a submission. The interactive bar allows you to select each highlight color to bring the corresponding text and page of the submission into focus. 

Increased maximum word count for detection
The AI writing report now supports submissions with up to 30,000 words of qualifying text.

Scores below 20% are no longer surfaced
False positives (incorrectly flagging human-written text as AI-generated) are a possibility in AI models. To avoid potential incidence of false positives, no score or highlights are attributed for AI detection scores in the 1% to 19% range. When AI is detected below the 20% threshold in the report, it is now indicated with an asterisk (*%) and no percentage is attributed. This change is reflected in new submissions only and will not retroactively apply to existing submissions. 

For more information and comprehensive guidance for these updates, check out our AI writing Report guidance, AI Detection FAQ, and our Academic resources for AI generated text.

Turnitin’s AI writing assessment is designed to help educators identify text that might be prepared by a generative AI tool. Our AI writing assessment may not always be accurate (it may misidentify writing that is likely AI generated as AI generated and AI paraphrased or likely AI generated and AI paraphrased writing as only AI generated) 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.

• Additional resources: Learn more about the updated AI writing report
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June 2024

2024 June 6th

Updated instructor management for administrators

We have made improvements to the administrator’s instructor list page to streamline instructor management and provide insights into Turnitin usage within your institution.

A search bar has been provided to easily search for specific instructors, and a new class details view is available for each instructor.

To access the new instructor list, select the icon within the Instructors column, as the Instructor tab has been removed to accommodate the new workflow.

• Additional resources: Learn more about managing your instructors
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April 2024

2024 April 10th

New default view for the new, enhanced Similarity Report experience

Upon opening the new, enhanced Similarity Report experience, the default view for all users will now be the Match Groups view.

• Additional resources:
  • Check out our guidance about interpreting the new report.
  • Check out our guidance about using the new Match Groups.
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2024 April 9th

Turnitin website restriction settings for integration users

We have continued to work on our website restriction settings and administrators can now fully restrict user access of the Turnitin website to a "disabled" status if the account is integrated with a learning management system. When enabled, instructor and student users will be able to log into Turnitin using the website and view their account name, but can only view and interact with their account on their LMS.

• Additional resources: N/A
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March 2024

2024 March 27th

Quick Submit daily submission limit

We have introduced an initial limit of 100 Quick Submit submissions within a 24-hour period. This limit will not affect student submissions or submissions made on behalf of students by their instructors. 

• Additional resources: N/A
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2024 March 19th

Turnitin website view-only settings for integration users

Administrators can now restrict user access of the Turnitin website to a "view only" status if the account is integrated with a learning management system. When enabled, instructor and student users will be able to log into Turnitin using the website and view their existing class, assignment, and submission details, but they will be unable to create, edit, or submit.

• Additional resources: N/A
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2024 March 6th

Turnitin assignment inbox enhancements

We have released an update to our web based assignment inbox for better management of assignments and student submissions. These changes are designed to streamline your workflow and lay the foundation for exciting enhancements in the future.

These changes include:

• New search bar functionality

• Dynamic flags column in the assignment inbox

• Automated paper deletion workflow

• Streamlined PeerMark assignment setup

• OneDrive submissions now supported

• Additional resources: Learn more about the new assignment inbox.
  This release also impacts how students will submit their work. Learn more about the student submission workflow.
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February 2024

2024 February 13th

AI writing statistics

We have released AI Writing statistics to the Statistics page in the administrator area of Turnitin. AI Writing statistics are only available for accounts that have the AI Writing feature as part of their license type and the feature enabled by the account administrator.

When enabled, the AI Writing chart is visible at the top of the page. This chart is a visual representation of AI Writing scores found for documents submitted to the account during the specified date.

• Additional resources: Learn more about how to access your account’s Statistics page
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January 2024

2024 January 23rd

Approved paper deletions cannot be recovered

Once an administrator approves a paper deletion request from an instructor, the submission is immediately deleted and removed from our database and the assignment inbox. Once deleted, the submission can no longer be recovered by the administrator or our Technical Support team.

• Additional resources: N/A
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2024 January 1st

AI preview ended and settings update

Preview access to AI writing detection has ended as of December 31, 2023. Access to this capability is only available to customers that license Turnitin Originality. 

For customers who have the Turnitin Originality add-on, the AI writing detection setting is now controlled by the top-level parent account. Disabling the setting from the top-level account will disable AI writing access for all associated sub-accounts. When enabled at the top-level, sub-accounts can enable or disable the setting as needed.

• Additional resources: Check out our resources to help you navigate important conversations about AI in written work.
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