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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.
Products affected
Turnitin SimilarityOnline@UT (Canvas LMS)
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Trace Foundation. (2026). 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 (data as of 2026-04-22) [Data set record]. AI Trace. https://www.aitrace.org/r/practice/703d1a5d-9001-4f7d-9dca-42d270848e50. Accessed October 14, 2026.
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- https://www.aitrace.org/r/practice/703d1a5d-9001-4f7d-9dca-42d270848e50
- Data as of
- April 22, 2026
- Last verified
- March 23, 2026
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