Detect Plagiarism with Copyleaks

To check student assignment submissions for potential plagiarism, you can enable Copyleaks on your Canvas assignment. Copyleaks will run a similarity report against documents in its repository, our institution’s repository, website content, periodicals, journals, and articles.

Steps:

  1. Create an assignment with the Submission Type Online. Choose the input method as file uploads and/or text entry.
    screenshot of submission type in Turnitin
  2. Select Copyleaks Plagiarism Checker in the Plagiarism Review option.

  3. Choose when to show the Similarity Report to students.

screenshot of the how to report to students dropdown menu

Visit for additional information on interpreting the report.