Brightspace Content is Getting Upgraded
Beginning with the Fall 2027 semester, Brightspace courses will default to the New Content Experience. Additionally, Instructors now have the ability to enable or disable the New Content Experience in their own courses ahead of the change in Fall 2027. For more information about this transition, see our New Content Experience Transition page.
Brightspace has a third party similarity checker called聽Turnitin. This tool allows instructors to choose whether or not to run student submissions through a program that checks for similarity to other written text, generates feedback for students on revision strategies, and serves as a general online platform for instructors to provide electronic feedback to students. You can聽. Instructors must enable Turnitin for each assignment. It鈥檚 not possible to enable Turnitin for an entire course.
If you would like to use Turnitin for an individual student submission that is not associated with a Brightspace assignment, please contact Brightspace support directly.
Updated May 2025
Enable Turnitin on an assignment
1. In your course, go to the assignment and choose Edit Assignment. If this is a new assignment, move on to Step 2.
2. On the edit page, expand the area titled Evaluation and Feedback. Click on the link to聽Manage Turnitin.
3. A window will open. At the least you must check the box to Enable Similarity Report聽for this folder. You can also select聽Enable Online Grading聽for this folder if you want to use Turnitin to grade submissions. Make whatever selections you require, and click聽Save聽at the bottom.
4. The window will close. Verify that your changes were made, then click Save and Close.
5. You鈥檒l see a new symbol displayed by your assignment now, when viewing your assignment list. This indicates that Turnitin has been enabled.
