Turnitin Feedback Studio helps instructors support academic integrity and streamline assignment feedback by checking student work for similarity and enabling efficient, high‑quality commenting workflows. It provides similarity checking and instructor‑focused feedback tools within Canvas, and serves as the University of Miami’s planned functional replacement for SafeAssign. Feedback Studio includes robust similarity reports, reusable QuickMarks, rubrics, inline annotations, and voice comments to help instructors deliver consistent, meaningful feedback efficiently.
Similarity Checking: Compares student submissions to global sources and displays matched text with links.
Instructor Feedback Tools: QuickMarks, custom rubrics, inline comments, and voice memos.
Canvas Integration: Fully integrated via LTI assignments created and graded within Canvas.
A quick start guide and instructional resources are available here.
Tipsheets, and video playlist is outlined below.
Instructors can use Turnitin in Canvas by enabling it within a Canvas assignment or by selecting Turnitin from the three dots next to the + Assignment button.
To make it visible to students, add the assignment to a module by clicking the + icon, choosing Assignment, and selecting the assignment.
To get started, instructors are encouraged to explore Turnitin Feedback Studio within their Canvas sandbox course. Turnitin can be accessed in two ways: (1) directly within a Canvas assignment under the Plagiarism Review section, and (2) through the full application available in the “Assignments” area of Canvas. For the second option, once an assignment has been created, it can also be added to the Modules area to provide students with easier access. The images below demonstrate example views of Turnitin Feedback Studio.Visualize the Experience
Turnitin Create Assignment page including fields for assignment title, instructions box, scheduling dates, max points, rubric attachment, and submission settings.
Turnitin Report Settings tab showing options for storing submissions, sources to compare, similarity report generation timing, student report access, and exclusion rules. 
Turnitin Feedback Studio showing a student paper with color‑coded similarity highlights and a right‑side panel presenting the overall similarity percentage and detailed match groups.
Turnitin Feedback Studio displaying a student paper with highlights and the Summary Comment panel expanded on the right, showing instructor comments and pinned feedback.
Turnitin Feedback Studio page open to the Rubric panel to select and grade with a rubric.
Turnitin Feedback Studio displaying highlighted text in the student paper and the QuickMarks panel on the right with thesis, fragment, and paragraph transition comments.
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