Turnitin Clarity writing-process report

Everything must happen inside the editor. "If a student completes work outside the writing tool, the tool will not track the writing process, and there is no way to submit the writing to generate the Writing Report" (instructor FAQ, read 9 November 2026). There is no offline editing; work saves every 5 seconds while typing; resubmission is allowed up to three times within 24 hours when enabled; and the optional AI Chat, powered by Anthropic's Claude 4.5 Haiku, takes up to 250 messages per student and up to 1,000 selected characters per request (student guide, read 9 November 2026). Supported browsers are the latest and one previous version of Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Edge.

Clarity has no free tier and no published price. The administrator FAQ answers "How much does Turnitin Clarity cost?" with "please contact your Turnitin account manager or contact sales", and confirms that Clarity "will need to be licensed separately at an additional cost" to Feedback Studio (administrator FAQ, read 9 November 2026). The plans field is therefore empty and the table below records the licence structure only.

Integration is through LTI 1.3 in Canvas, Moodle, Blackboard and D2L, which the vendor recommends "for an optimal experience", or through the Turnitin website without an LMS (administrator FAQ, read 9 November 2026). The LMS angle is covered on AI detectors with LMS integrations.

Retention is governed by the Turnitin Services Privacy Policy, last updated 4 February 2026, which names "data about the writing process itself, such as keystrokes, deletions, and other interactions with the writing interface" as Educational Data and states: "We may retain certain User and Customer Personal Information for the period necessary to enable the continued use of the Services ... How long we retain specific Personal Information varies depending on its type and use, after which it will be deleted" (Services Privacy Policy, read 9 November 2026). No period in days is stated, so the retention rank field is empty. On the AI assistant, the administrator FAQ says the pre-trained models "do not use or retain any student or assignment data submitted to Turnitin for AI training and evaluation", while Turnitin itself does "use anonymized student assignment data to evaluate, improve, and extend the quality of the Turnitin AI assistant".

Turnitin publishes no accuracy rate for Clarity and makes no detection claim for it. The flags are described as prompts for review rather than findings: they help an instructor "quickly identify where closer review may be needed", and "Each document is unique" with "a range of possible findings" (Reviewing the Writing Report, read 9 November 2026). The numbers Clarity does publish are thresholds, 50% and 40% of words, not error rates, and the card keeps them in the vendor claim field as the only figures the vendor states.

The vendor's caveats are about scope. "Without Turnitin Originality, AI writing detection will not appear in the Writing Report, and will not flag any content that may have been AI-generated outside of the AI Assistant", and "Currently, the full Writing Report can only be accessed by the instructor" (administrator FAQ, read 9 November 2026). The AI assistant "has been trained and tested to support interactions in English only". A report that shows when text was pasted and how long a student typed is a record of behaviour, and the vendor leaves the judgement to the instructor.