Updated on 2024-05-31

 

File Size

Turnitin will accept files:

• has a minimum of 20 words;
• less than 100MB; and
• is less than 800 pages.

Note Only text will be checked by Turnitin, all the images, charts will be ignored.

Note Files of a large size can be reduced in size by moving non-text content.

 

File Type

Turnitin will only accept files that can generate Similarity Reports. This includes:

• Portable Document Format (PDF)
• Microsoft Word (DOC and DOCX)
• Microsoft PowerPoint (.pptx, .ppsx, and .pps)
• Microsoft Excel (.xls and .xlsx)
• Google Docs via Google Drive
• Corel WordPerfect
• HTML
• Adobe PostScript
• Plain text (TXT)
• Rich Text Format (RTF)
• OpenOffice (ODT)
• Hangul (HWP and HWPX)

Note For using an unsupported word processor, please save the plain text file as .txt or .rtf in order to upload to Turnitin.

Note Turnitin will NOT accept PDF image files, forms, or portfolios, files that do not contain highlightable text (e.g. a scanned file - usually an image), documents containing multiple files or files created with software other than Adobe Acrobat®.

Note For details, please refer to Turnitin Guides https://help.turnitin.com/feedback-studio/blackboard/lti/student/submitting-a-paper/file-types-and-size.htm

 

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Submission Errors

Error Message : Your submission must contain 20 words or more. Your file has not been submitted.

 

Error Message : The file type of your submission is not supported. Your file has not been submitted.

 

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Turnitin Reference Materials:

[Turnitin Official Website] Allowed file types and sizes