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Turnitin Resources for Students

Students have access to Turnitin through Folio. Your instructor will enable the Turnitin settings for individual assignments.

You have the ability to practice submitting Turnitin-enabled assignments and generating similarity reports within the Getting Started with Folio course in Folio.

File Types Accepted by Turnitin for Generating Originality Reports:


  • Microsoft Word (.doc/.docx)
  • PostScript (.ps/.eps)
  • HTML
  • Rich text format (.rtf)
  • Plain text (.txt)
  • Google Docs via Google Drive™
  • Adobe PDF
  • Microsoft PowerPoint (.pptx, .ppt, .ppsx, and .pps)
  • Microsoft Excel (.xls and .xlsx)
  • OpenOffice Text (.odt)

At Georgia Southern University, we believe that all students should have equal technology opportunities in the classroom. The following list includes technologies that may appear in Georgia Southern courses and the accessibility information for each of those technologies.

Last updated: 7/27/2023