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Turnitin API & Integration Plans

The Turnitin team works continuously to improve our service as provided through integrations with learning solutions. To this end, we are working on a variety of product initiatives and development efforts. A summary of our current plans is below. If you have any questions, you can contact your Turnitin partner or sales representative, or the Turnitin Integrations Team for more details.

Turnitin API & Toolsets: Out with the Old and In with the New!

Turnitin is working on a Roadmap to retire the legacy Turnitin API, made available in 2004. In its place, a variety of new toolsets for integrations will be made available, including SDKs and new APIs. The Turnitin team will work with each integrated application to migrate to one of the new tools by Q4 of 2014.

Turnitin will terminate support for the Turnitin legacy API no earlier than Q1 2015.

If you own or manage an existing integration with Turnitin and/or have questions, please contact your partner or sales representative. You may also send an email to the Turnitin Integrations Team. The Turnitin team will work with you closely to ensure there is no disruption of service to you or your customers.

IMS Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI)

In Q3 of 2013 Turnitin is planning to launch a new API compliant with IMS LTI 1.1. Via this new LTI API, user will be able to add Turnitin into any LTI compliant application as a tool provider.

Impacts to Integrations Developed by the Turnitin Team

  • Moodle Please visit our Moodle Roadmap to view tour plans.
  • Blackboard Please visit our Blackboard Roadmap to view our plans.
  • ANGEL Angel is LTI compliant, and can support Turnitin as a LTI tool provider. Thus, once the Turnitin LTI API is available in Q3 of 2013, all Angel users can begin using Turnitin via LTI. Turnitin will work with Angel users to make the switch to LTI no earlier than Q1 of 2015.
  • Blackboard CE/Vista (formally WebCT) Via Blackboard's Powerlinks, WebCT supports LTI as a tool consumer. Thus, once the Turnitin LTI API is available in Q3 of 2013, all WebCT users can begin using Turnitin via LTI. Turnitin will work with WebCT users to make the switch to LTI no earlier than Q1 of 2015.
  • Sakai Sakai is another LMS that is LTI compliant. Thus, once the Turnitin LTI API is available, Sakai consumers may incorporate Turnitin into Sakai as a tool. The Turnitin team will also work with the Sakai development community to support updates to existing integrations via porting to the new Turnitin Java SDK.

Impacts to Integrations Developed by Partners

Turnitin will work with all our third-party parters to establish a plan for migration, including Canvas, eCollege, Desire2Learn, and Schoology. Individual plans will be communicated as they are formalized.

Impacts to Integrations Developed by Institutions

The Turnitin integrations team will reach to to individual institutions with custom integrations with Turnitin to formulate plans.