It is best practice to create a new Turnitin class for the start of a new semester or academic year and avoid reusing the same Turnitin class with a new student cohort. Reusing Turnitin classes will continue to include previous students who may have already completed the class or left the institution, resulting in inactive students being counted against your institution's active student license limit.
If you are using an LMS, we recommend creating a new LMS course in preparation for a new semester or year and expiring inactive ones. Alternatively, you can follow the Turnitin LMS-specific course copy recommendations available as a way to easily copy classes to be reused with a new student cohort.
Depending on how you access Turnitin, please find our current supported course copy recommendations below:
- Turnitin website
- Canvas Plagiarism Framework
- Canvas LTI 1.3
- D2L LTI 1.3
- Blackboard LTI 1.3
- Moodle LTI 1.3
- Moodle Direct V2
- Moodle Plagiarism Plugin
If you are looking for guidance on how to copy classes on the Turnitin website, please click here.