This guide will walk you through using the Copyleaks Teacher Scan tool. This is a manual scan you initiate, different from the automatic scans that happen when students submit documents to assignments set up with Copyleaks enabled.

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Adding the Copyleaks Teacher Scan Tool
Performing a Teacher Scan

Adding the Copyleaks Teacher Scan Tool

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The Teacher Scan tool is available as an external tool you can add to a module, such as your instructor-only module. It should not be published to students.

In your Canvas course, go to Modules, then click the + on the instructor-only module, or whatever module you'd like to add this to.
Choose External Tool, click Copyleaks Teacher Scan (wait for it to load), then click Add Item.
You will now find Teacher Scanning Tool at the bottom of the module. You can click this to open it.

Performing a Teacher Scan

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Once you're in the Copyleaks dashboard via the Teacher Scanning Tool link, you can initiate a scan.

Click Scan Documents, or, if you'd like to just paste in text, click the three-dot option menu, then click Scan Text. The screenshot below shows the Scan Text option:
Paste in your text or upload your file, then click Scan. The screenshot below shows pasted in text.
The scan will take time to process. You will see the scores in the scan tool when it is finished, and you can click the open in new window buttons to open the full report.