Turnitin doesn't create similarity report for files uploaded from OneDrive

Question

We create assignments in Canvas and have added Turnitin integration for plagiarism checks. When a student adds a submission via OneDrive LTI integration a similarity report is not created in the SpeedGrader. If they upload the file directly then a report is created.

OneDrive integration is very convenient for the students to add their submissions directly to Canvas but if the Turnitin integration doesn't work it becomes useless. How could this be fixed?

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Chris_Hofer · Accepted Answer

Hi @MarinJohnson ...

This would be news to me if documents from OneDrive would be able to be submitted via Turnitin.  I do know there is a LTI external tool integration for OneDrive and another for the Turnitin LTI, but I'm not aware that those two external tools "talk" to each other in the way you describe.  In my past role as a Canvas administrator in higher education, we had Turnitin integrated into our Canvas environment, but I don't recall ever seeing any functionality that would allow submissions from OneDrive.  Students would always need to upload a document to the Turnitin interface that was saved on their computer hard drive.  So, what you describe...

"When a student adds a submission via OneDrive LTI integration a similarity report is not created in the SpeedGrader. If they upload the file directly then a report is created."

...does sound correct to me.

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