What are the requirements for using Turnitin in a Waterloo LEARN course? Once you enable Turnitin for a dropbox in a course, all student submissions made to that dropbox are checked against the Turnitin database.įor information regarding using Turnitin from an Academic Integrity standpoint, please see the Academic Integritywebsite. Turnitin is primarily used as a text matching tool that can be integrated with your Waterloo LEARN course dropbox(es). What is Turnitin and how is Turnitin used? The Turnitin Instructor reference provides instructions for setting up a Turnitin dropbox within a course(s) in LEARN.