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Turnitin product updates

On this page, find information about upcoming features for Turnitin, and review any information or notes related to our most recent releases.

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The New Features tab provides a list of enhancements and features that are fully released. You can find more information about each release, as applicable, in the embedded links for each date.


2025 April 11

SSO Access Restrictions

Turnitin License(s): iThenticate 2.0, Turnitin Similarity, Turnitin Originality 

Turnitin Administrators can now control and manage access to their institution’s Turnitin account when using iThenticate 2.0, Turnitin Similarity, or Turnitin Originality based on user attributes from your identity provider (like department, role, or location).

This release will help you:

  • 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

How can you get access to this feature?

When enabling SSO with our technical support team, you can simply specify the attribute pairs in your SSO configuration that define who should have access.

If you already have SSO enabled and would like to enable access control, visit our help center to raise a ticket and our team will help you through the setup process.

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2025 April 2

AI writing detection for Japanese submissions

Turnitin License(s): Feedback Studio w/Originality, Turnitin Similarity w/Originality, OC w/Originality, iThenticate 2.0 w/ AI writing enabled

We’re happy to announce the release of our AI writing detection capabilities in Japanese to help educators uphold academic integrity by offering insights for Japanese language submissions. 

From this date, our AI writing detection for Japanese submissions will be available to all our existing customers who currently license Turnitin Originality and have the AI writing detection capability enabled on their accounts. It will also be available to iThenticate 2.0 customers who currently license AI writing detection and have it enabled on their accounts.

Japanese detection will run alongside our English, and Spanish detectors, and based on the language of the submission - whether it’s English, Japanese, or Spanish – the appropriate model will process the submission and provide a report. If a paper in an unsupported language is submitted, our model will not process the paper for AI writing detection.

Our Japanese model is adept at distinguishing AI-written content from human-written content specifically for academic writing, given our twenty-five years of experience in understanding and safeguarding academic integrity. Additional benefits of our capability include:

Addressing emerging challenges: We understand the importance of adapting our solutions to help our customers meet emerging challenges such as those posed by generative AI writing tools. Our AI writing indicator focuses on identifying likely AI-generated text while keeping a low false positive rate, helping institutions uphold academic integrity and advance student learning.

Supporting users’ existing workflow: The AI detection capabilities are built into our existing similarity report workflow, which means that it’s also integrated with our users’ learning management system. So, instructors can check student papers for AI writing without having to change the way they work.

Simple and comprehensible reporting: Turnitin’s AI writing indicator for Japanese shows an overall percentage of the text in the document submitted that may have been AI-generated. The accompanying report highlights the segments that are predicted to be likely AI-written. Our solution has been designed with and for educators and provides the information they need to help them determine their next course of action.

To learn more, please visit our FAQs page or contact your Turnitin account manager.


2024 September 12

AI Writing Detection for Spanish Submissions

Turnitin license(s): Originality, iThenticate 2.0 w/ AI writing enabled

We are extending our AI Writing Detection capability to support Spanish submissions.


2024 September 11

Feedback Studio Microsoft Teams Integration

Turnitin license(s): Feedback Studio

Experience the power of Turnitin Feedback Studio, the most comprehensive academic integrity, feedback, and grading solution, now available directly within Microsoft Teams. With this integration, users gain access to Turnitin’s best-in-class similarity checking and a suite of intuitive, time-saving formative feedback and grading tools that help students cultivate writing excellence, build critical thinking skills, and drive career readiness.

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2024 August 8

Enhanced Similarity Report

Turnitin license(s): Originality Check, Originality Check+, SimCheck, Similarity, Originality

Turnitin’s similarity report has been thoughtfully redesigned with an integrated, intuitive interface and new categorization of match types, making it easier to interpret and use as a formative learning tool to strengthen academic writing skills.


2024 July 16

AI Paraphrasing

Turnitin license(s): Originality, iThenticate 2.0 w/ AI writing enabled

Enhancing our AI writing detection capabilities to identify and highlight AI-generated content that was further modified using an online text spinner.
With this launch, likely AI-generated content that may have also been AI-paraphrased will be highlighted separately in the AI writing report.

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2024 September 12

Feedback Studio Paper to Digital add-on launch

Turnitin license(s): Feedback Studio

Paper-based assessments are an essential part of many courses. With Turnitin Feedback Studio’s Paper to Digital add-on, you can continue to enjoy the ease and familiarity of delivering assessments in this format without the challenges that come with grading and managing paper-bound performance data. Extend the flexibility of paper to improve grading online, fast and fair feedback for students, more secure workflow and storage options, and integration directly into your LMS and Feedback Studio.

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2024 June 4

Admin Dashboard Improvements

Turnitin license(s): Feedback Studio, Originality Check

We updated the admin dashboard to help simplify instructor management and provide deeper insights into how Turnitin is being utilized within their institution or school. Here’s a quick rundown of what’s changing:

  • Modernized UI and experience
  • New search bar functionality
  • Improved insights into classes, students, and submissions
  • Ability to download a list of instructors and their associated enrollments
  • Improved functionality for adding, locking, and deleting of instructors

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