New Integration - Points to Address



  • Turnitin accepts only the following file types for submissions - MS Word (*.doc or *.docx), Powerpoint (*.ppt or *.ppts), WordPerfect, RTF, PDF, Adobe Postscript, HTML and plain text.
  • The paper being submitted must contain more than 20 words, must be under 20MB (or approximately two million characters), must not exceed 400 pages in length, and must not contain spaces in between every letter (l i k e t h i s).
  • Turnitin distinguishes users on the basis of e-mail address. Therefore, once an e-mail address has been associated with a particular user it cannot be associated with another one. Can we use <useress?rname>@inst.edu instead of email add
  • You can add an attachment such as a worksheet, or reference material that may be required in order to  complete the assignment
  • There should be no users in the roster that is synced with turnitin who no longer have an account. 'admin' user can see such users in site info
  • When creating an assignment, you must choose Single Uploaded File only for the type of student submission. (This has been fixed to allow in line responses to be check.)
  • Avoid using the Duplicate option to duplicate assignments, since this may cause problems with assignment titles in the Turnitin database – rather create a new assignment from scratch.
  • The same applies with previously used assignment titles: e.g. if you set up “Test Assignment”, then delete it and later create a new assignment with the same title, it will cause a problem in the Turnitin database.
  • The name of the site containing the assignment must be greater than 5 characters.
  • Turnitin has its own internal mechanism to ignore assignments created more than 5 months ago. Thus assignment creation dates should not be more than 5 months before expected student submissions. 
  • Maximum file size upload is 20MB