Turnitin refers to both the service provider and the academic integrity tool within Loyola's learning technologies portfolio. Student written submissions are checked against other submitted works across institutions, publications, and public content within the Turnitin repository. Submissions that are reviewed against the Turnitin repository will generate a Similarity Report with a score and details in respect to its similarity to other existing content. Through this process, Turnitin detects possible instances of plagiarism in student submissions and displays this report in Feedback Studio, its user interface.

Turnitin Originality refers to an add-on service within Feedback Studio that includes Turnitin AI Writing Detection.

All Turnitin services available at Loyola University Chicago are integrated into the Sakai Assignments tool for use in reviewing file submissions from students. To enable Turnitin for an assignment, simply check the box to Use Turnitin when creating an assignment folder. As students submit to a Sakai assignment folder with Turnitin enabled, Turnitin will generate a report that indicates the percentage of original content within a submission. Please note that a Turnitin report takes some time to process and reports will not be immediately available upon submission.

Turnitin is available in any Sakai site with the Assignments tool and does not require a special request.