Apr 21, 2026
Turnitin Direct allows you to view the originality reports for submitted student work from within the Canvas SpeedGrader to streamline the grading process.
Locate Similarity Reports within SpeedGrader
- Click Assignments on the course navigation menu.
- Locate the Turnitin Direct assignment and click on the assignment's title.
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On the Turnitin Direct assignment's page, click
SpeedGrader on the right side of the page under "related
items."
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In SpeedGrader you can navigate through each student's submission. To access
their similarity report, click the
colored percentage icon in the submission details pane on
the right of the screen.
If the similarity report has not yet processed, then you will see a grey stopwatch icon next to the submitted file. Please keep in mind that it may take up to 24 hours for a student's submission to be processed by Turnitin. If a student's submission failed to be properly sent over to Turnitin for analysis after 24 hours, you can click the Resubmit to Turnitin button to manually push the submission for re-analysis. Please allow 24 hours for Turnitin to process this re-submission.
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Turnitin's Feedback Studio will open in a new window displaying this
student's submission. Here, you can look at which passages in the student's
submission were flagged for similarity to other sources, as well as access
other Turnitin tools.
Further Resources
- Turnitin's support documentation
- Accessing the Similarity Report
- Understanding the similarity score
- Turnitin and plagiarism
- How exclusion filters refine the Similarity Report
- Managing filters and exclusions in the Similarity Report
- The paper lookup tool for Feedback Studio
- Using the search
- Downloading and sharing the Similarity Report
- View and understand word count in Turnitin

