Turnitin®
Promotes academic integrity by leveraging cutting-edge technology to prevent plagiarism. Streamlines grading and delivers formative and summative feedback to help students improve their writing.
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October 15, 2025
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Mobile App Deprecation: The Feedback Studio iPad app will be retired at the end of 2025 and no longer available. Instructors can continue to access Feedback Studio as usual through Turnitin.com or your school’s LMS/VLE. Our teams are also actively working to deliver a fully responsive experience for the New Standard Assignment, so instructors can review and provide feedback on student work from tablets without needing a separate app.
Turnitin Draft Coach is available via Google Docs for all Stony Brook Google Apps users.
Access to all other Turnitin tools is only available via Brightspace.
Learn More About the Tools of Turnitin®
Information about creating, settings, resubmitting and paper deletions from the Content section of Brightspace (using the Turnitin LTI).
Understanding and accessing the Similarity Report. The similarity score is a percentage of a paper's content that matches to Turnitin's databases.
PeerMark is a peer review assignment tool. Instructors can create and manage PeerMark assignments that allow students to read, review, and evaluate one or many papers submitted by their classmates.
Learn Everything About Turnitin®
This comprehensive list includes how to delete and resubmit papers, documents details and flags, and tools like Quickmark and Commenting to help make grading and feedback easier.
Frequently Asked Questions
Assignments
The Turnitin® LTI (add-on for Brightspace) contains a tool for instructors to create and manage assignments that allow students to read, review, and evaluate one or many papers submitted by their peers called PeerMark™.
Learn more about setting up PeerMark™ assignments from Turnitin documentation.
Also, check out what our emerging technologist posted about PeerMark: "Using PeerMark in Brightspace"
- Create an Assignment
- Select Evaluation & Feedback
- At the bottom of the Evaluation & Feedback area, select Manage Turnitin
- On the Turnitin® Integration Page:
- Enable Similarity Report for this folder
- Click More Options in Turnitin® to specify:
- Allowed File Types
- What sources you want to compare against
- Exclusions from Similarity Reports, etc.
Student Submissions:
Once assignments are submitted, students will receive an email that looks like this:
Viewing Student Submissions:
You can view Turnitin® Similarity Report (results) in two places in Brightspace:
- In the Assignment area
- In Grades
To learn more about Turnitin® similarity reports, please click here.
Additional Resources:
Discussions
Discussion board posts are not included. Turnitin and D2L are aware of this need but have not yet shared when this feature will be available.
Request for Full text submissions
Stony Brook University does not share the work of students. Submitted papers remain the intellectual property of the author.
Submitting Papers
No, instructors cannot submit papers on a students behalf.