University of Tennessee: UTK uses Turnitin Similarity, integrated with Canvas, to check student writing for potential plagiarism. The tool compares submitted work against a large database of academic papers, websites, and other sources, and recent versions can also flag text that may have been written by AI. | AI Trace
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UTK uses Turnitin Similarity, integrated with Canvas, to check student writing for potential plagiarism. The tool compares submitted work against a large database of academic papers, websites, and other sources, and recent versions can also flag text that may have been written by AI.
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Turnitin Similarity is an officially approved assessment and academic integrity tool within Online@UT (Canvas). It uses AI-powered text similarity analysis to generate an originality report for each submission. More recent versions of Turnitin include an AI writing detection capability that estimates the likelihood that portions of a submission were generated by tools like ChatGPT. Per UT System policy BT0035, results from Turnitin's AI detection features cannot serve as the sole basis for an academic misconduct finding — they must be paired with additional evidence and faculty review.
