How Can Proctorio Assist with Academic Integrity? 

With Proctorio, you can help preserve exam integrity in Canvas courses in three main ways: 

1. Requiring identity verification from each student before an exam 

2. Recording students’ exam video, audio, screen, and/or keyboard activity 

3. Restricting what students can do on their computers during an exam (e.g., no printing, copying, accessing other websites) 

After an exam, Proctorio’s algorithms automatically look over student recordings. You set the behaviors you want flagged as unusual activities by the algorithms. You and/or your teaching assistants then review the recordings and flags to determine whether any activity constitutes actual misconduct. 

Proctorio Benefits 

• Fully integrated within Online@UT (Canvas) 
• Flexible proctoring parameters 
• Ensures test taker privacy and data security (For more information, please review these Proctorio external web sites: Support for Test Takers and Proctorio’s Privacy Policy.)
• Flags suspicious behavior 

Proctorio Support Documentation

An Online@UT (Canvas) Proctorio support documentation site has been developed to familiarize faculty and students with Proctorio. Faculty will learn about best practices including wording for your syllabus. Faculty and students will learn how to get started with Proctorio, troubleshooting tips, and can review FAQs. We strongly encourage faculty and students to enroll in this site. You will need to log in with your NetID and Password. 

Enroll in the OIT online self-paced workshop and review Proctorio Support Documentation.

How Does Turnitin work? 

Turnitin is available in Online@UT (Canvas) through the Canvas Assignment feature. Instructors can create an online assignment and add Turnitin to that assignment. When students upload written work to the assignment, Turnitin compares the submissions against a repository of publications, journals, periodicals, other internet sources, and student-submitted work. A detailed Similarity Report is generated for both instructors and students that identify text similar to these sources.

What is the Turnitin Similarity Report? 

After students submit their work through the Canvas Assignment feature, a Turnitin Similarity Report is generated, accompanied by a similarity score. This score indicates the percentage of matching and similar text found in the paper. The Similarity Report summary highlights the areas of similarity and provides instructors and students with a visual and numerical indicator of the paper’s content matches. It can help students identify paraphrases or citations that need revision and improve their writing.

Please consult Turnitin’s Understanding the Similarity Report: An Educator Guide or Understanding the Similarity Report: A Student Guide for a detailed explanation of the key features and information in Turnitin’s Similarity Report. 

Key Turnitin Features 

• Canvas Integration 
  Seamlessly integrates with Canvas SpeedGrader™ and Gradebook. 
• Highlighted Similarities 
  Turnitin highlights passages in student work similar to content found in multiple sources and produces a list of matching content.
• Clear & Concise Similarity Report 
  The Turnitin Similarity Report numbers and color codes sources that correspond to matching text passages, making them easy to find. Selecting the highlighted text within the paper will open the corresponding source, and selecting the source will show the highlighted text.
• Student Access to Similarity Report
  Instructors have the option to allow students to view their Similarity Report directly after submitting their assignments or after their submitted assignment is graded. 
• Compatible File Formats 
  Microsoft Word (.doc, .docx), PowerPoint (.ppt, .pptx), Excel (.xls, .xlsx), Adobe PDF, Rich Text Format (.rtf), Plain Text (.txt), OpenOffice (.odt), HTML, WordPerfect (.wpd), PostScript (.ps), Hangul (.hwp), Google Docs, Google Slides, and Google Sheets (submitted via the Google Drive submission option in Canvas). Apple Pages are not accepted.