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How to view your Turnitin submission status, Digital Receipt, Submission ID, and feedback

This page is for the new LTi integration. If your assignment was held during the 2021-22 academic year go here to see the guides for the building block integration

After you have submitted you may need to view your submission to obtain a digital receipt, submission ID, or view your grade and feedback when they are ready.

Viewing Feedback

Turnitin Assignment Dashboard showing an example assignment with a submitted document titled "Test submission.docx". The title is a clickable link.
  • Selecting your paper title will load it into Feedback studio which shows an online version of your paper that your tutor uses to grade your work. If available it will contain your grade and feedback. Also, if it has been enabled on your assignment, you will be able to view your similarity report.
Example of what Feedback Studio looks like from a student view.
  • If your tutor has used Feedback Studio to add comments, these will appear on screen after you’ve loaded your paper.  Comments will appear as blue speech marks or blue boxes.
Close-up of a submitted paper in Turnitin Feedback Studio showing a tutor's comment expanded in a pop-up box beside the document text.
  • Clicking on a blue box will expand the comment or QuickMark to see the detailed comment if applicable.

Viewing your provisional score, general comments, rubrics, and listening to voice comments

Turnitin Feedback Studio's Instructor Feedback panel showing a provisional score of 55 out of 100 at the top.
  • On the right-hand side of the page you should see a series of blue boxes.  These allow you access to the rubric scorecard for your assignment (if one is being used) you may also allow you to listen to any voice comments.  Voice comments are short recordings that your tutor may make to summarise their thoughts.  This will not be available unless your tutor has chosen to use this feature.  At the bottom of this sidebar, you can view general comments which have been left by the marker.
  • The very top of the blue sidebar area shows you any score which has been entered by the marker for your paper.  Note that scores which appear in Turnitin are usually provisional, and should not be considered your ‘final’ mark.

Downloading a PDF of your submission with feedback to view offline (or print)

  • If you wish to download a copy of your submission including any feedback, you can download a PDF to be viewed offline or to be printed.
Turnitin Feedback Studio showing the download icon, represented by a downward-pointing arrow, in the toolbar on the right-hand side. Select this icon to open the download options for your submitted paper and feedback.
  • First look for the download icon in the right-hand side panel.  This is highlighted in the screenshot above.  Click on the icon.
Turnitin Feedback Studio download menu showing the option "Current View". Select "Current View" to download a PDF containing your submission and available feedback. A "Preparing Download" message appears before the PDF opens or is saved.
  • Having clicked on the button, you should see a popup message asking what you wish to download.  Click on ‘Current View’.  The popup will disappear, and a message saying ‘Preparing Download’ should appear.  Shortly after, your PDF should open (or you may be asked to save the PDF depending on your local browser settings.

Resubmit Paper

Turnitin Assignment Dashboard showing a submitted document titled "Test submission.docx". A red box highlights the upward-pointing arrow icon in the submission row, labelled "Upload Paper" when hovered over. Select this icon to resubmit your paper if the assignment allows resubmissions.
  • Locate the link to the Turnitin Assignment and open it.
  • Selecting the upward pointing arrow icon titled “Upload Paper” when you hover over it will allow you to resubmit your paper if resubmissions are allowed. This is the same process you followed when you originally submitted.

Download digital receipt

Turnitin Assignment Dashboard showing a submitted document with its upload date and similarity score. A red box highlights the notepad icon at the far right of the submission row. Select this icon to download your digital receipt, which contains important information about your submission
  • Locate the link to the Turnitin Assignment and open it.
  • Selecting the notepad icon will download a digital receipt for your paper.
  • when you open it you will be able to see important information regarding your submission
Example Turnitin Digital Receipt confirming that a paper has been received. The receipt lists the submission author, assignment title, document name, file size, page and word counts, submission date, and Submission ID. A red box and arrow highlight the Submission ID, 182927522, near the bottom of the receipt details. This unique number, also called the Paper ID, should be quoted when requesting assistance with a submission.
  • The unique identifier for your submission is the Submission ID sometimes referred to as the Paper ID. Try to quote it if you have any need for assistance.

Download Paper

Turnitin Assignment Dashboard showing a submitted document titled "Test submission.docx". A red box highlights the downward-pointing arrow icon near the right-hand end of the submission row. Select this icon to download an unaltered copy of your originally submitted paper.
  • Locate the link to the Turnitin Assignment and open it.
  • Selecting the downward pointing arrow icon allows you to download your paper, this file is unaltered from your original submission. Once you have selected it your download will begin.

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