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    • TII: AI Writing Detection in Canvas

    Owned by Alyssa Goudy
    Last updated: May 04, 2023
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    Turnitin has released an AI writing detection to help educators uphold academic integrity while ensuring that students are treated fairly. This feature has been added as a writing indicator to the Similarity Report. It shows an overall percentage of the document that AI writing tools, such as ChatGPT, may have generated.

    The indicator further links to a report which highlights text segments the model predicts were written by AI. To use it, you need to follow your usual Similarity checking workflow. The following instructions are for accessing the AI Detection through a TII Canvas Assignment.

    Please note:

    • Only assignments submitted after April 4th will have the AI detection available!

    • Only instructors and administrators are able to see the indicator.

    • The AI score is not embedded directly in the Canvas interface and you will need to go into the Similarity report to see the AI score and access the AI report.

    • Before accessing the AI Detection, you will need to enable TurnItIn as an assignment in Canvas. Please review the guide TII: Create Canvas Assignment.

    Accessing the AI detection through Canvas

    1. Log into Canvas and click into the course you have the assignment enabled with

    2. Click the Assignments button on the left-hand navigation menu

    3. Click the assignment you need

    4. Once in the assignment, click the SpeedGrader button on the right

    5. Once you are in Speedgrader, you will see the assignments your students have submitted. On the right-side of the page is the Speedgrader Sidebar. Under the submitted files list, to the left of the linked submission file, is a percentage in a box. Click the percentage to open the Turnitin workflow for your student’s submission.

    For more information regarding SpeedGrader in Canvas, please review the guide How do I use SpeedGrader?

    6. In the Turnitin workflow, you will see your student’s submission at the center of the page, and a toolbar to the right. At the very bottom is the AI detection tool. Please click the AI box to see the AI interpretation and additional resources.

    7. Click the AI box will open the window below. If at least one percent is determined to be generated by AI, the text will be highlighted on the student’s submission on the center page.

    AI report details

    As you can see from the next image, the following is a sample assignment that has been submitted through Turnitin that received a 100% for AI generated text.