Move to Turnitin's LTI 1.3 integration with Sakai with confidence
Welcome to your central resource for upgrading from Turnitin's LTI 1.1 to LTI 1.3 in Sakai. This page will guide you through every aspect of the upgrade process.
Advantages of upgrading to Turnitin's LTI 1.3 integration with Sakai
If you're currently using Turnitin's LTI 1.1 within the Sakai environment, this upgrade offers enhanced security measures and useful features like roster syncing, simplified assignment creation, and improved grade pass back services.
Delivering innovation: The road to LTI 1.3
(Webinar: March 11, 2025)
Ideal for educators, instructors, and LMS administrators, this session provides an overview of the new Turnitin Feedback Studio enhancements and resources to support your transition to Turnitin’s LTI 1.3.
The next generation of Turnitin Feedback Studio
Available exclusively in LTI 1.3 integrations and the Turnitin website
Turnitin Feedback Studio has been reimagined to meet modern education needs. With a focus on innovation and accessible design, it establishes a new foundation for delivering customer-driven enhancements.
What's new?
- User-friendly, accessible design: Featuring a new intuitive interface, streamlined layout, and in-app guidance, the new report offers an enhanced and inclusive user experience, with a goal of achieving full WCAG 2.0 and 2.1 AA compliance by the end of the year.
- Reimagined for clarity and focus: New match categories make the Similarity Report easier to understand and pinpoint problems in student submissions, saving educators time and effort in interpreting results.
- Enhanced efficiency for more meaningful feedback: Feedback Studio's revamped feedback and grading experience streamlines the assessment process, giving educators more time to deliver timely, actionable feedback that boosts student engagement and accelerates their learning.
- Flexible assessment to meet diverse needs: Discover new flexible grading options that empower educators to deliver feedback that accommodates a range of pedagogical styles and supports diverse student needs.
- A new foundation for innovation: Modernized technology lays the groundwork for faster delivery of value-add functionality and new product add-ons, enabling quicker response to evolving customer and market needs.
Learn more about the next generation of Feedback Studio.
Upgrading timelines
To ensure you have access to the latest features and enhancements within Turnitin Feedback Studio, we recommend considering an upgrade to LTI 1.3 at your earliest convenience.
Please note that Turnitin plans to end support of the Turnitin LTI 1.1 integration with Sakai on December 31, 2026 and to deprecate this integration entirely on June 30, 2027.
Sakai 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 Sakai.
Enroll in workshops: Product enhancements and technical deep dives
Explore Turnitin’s Feedback Studio latest enhancements, including powerful add-ons like Turnitin Clarity, which brings transparency to student writing, and Paper to Digital, which lets you scan and grade paper-based assignments. See these sessions under the Useful Workshops for All Users title.
For administrators, our team will also cover essential technical details for upgrading to LTI 1.3 and other critical workflows and setups. Check the availability of these sessions in the Workshops for Admins section.
More workshops coming soon
More workshops are planned to further assist the transition to LTI 1.3. Keep an eye on this space for updates.
Resources
Under development now (check out this page later for step-by-step guidance.)