Turnitin is linked to every Capella courseroom and builds an originality report on what you submit. In FlexPath you get Turnitin Drafts (Draft 1 and Draft 2) that are for your own eyes and can be used as many times as you like — after 24 hours a resubmission replaces the previous report with a fresh one. When you are ready, you submit under the attempt, which faculty evaluate and which cannot be resubmitted. So the draft slots are exactly where you read and fix your similarity before it counts.
What Turnitin is at Capella
Turnitin is the similarity-checking service Capella connects to its classrooms. It compares your writing against published sources, web pages, and other student papers, then returns an originality report highlighting matched passages. It is a mirror, not a judge: a percentage and a set of highlights, not a verdict on whether you cheated.
Drafts versus the attempt
This is the distinction that trips people up. FlexPath gives you Turnitin Draft 1 and Draft 2, which are private practice runs — submit, read the report, revise, and after 24 hours resubmit to replace the old report. The attempt is different: it is the version faculty score, and once submitted it cannot be resubmitted. Use the drafts to get your report clean; save the attempt for work you are confident in.
What the similarity score actually means
A high percentage is not automatically a problem, and a low one is not automatically safe. Quoted material, reference lists, and common phrases all inflate the number legitimately. What matters is the pattern of the highlights: long unquoted matches to a single source are the real risk, while scattered short matches on cited facts usually are not. Read the report, do not just chase the number.
Bringing similarity down honestly
The wrong fix is swapping a few words to dodge the checker; Turnitin catches patchwriting and it reads as evasion. The right fix is to genuinely restate ideas in your own analysis and cite the source, quote sparingly and only when the exact wording matters, and make sure your reference list is formatted so Turnitin recognises it as references rather than body text.
Where a tutor fits
We do not run your work through Turnitin for you or ghost-write the attempt. What we do is help you read a draft report, show you which highlights are harmless and which need real revision, and coach the paraphrase-and-cite moves that lower similarity the honest way — so the attempt you submit is genuinely yours and genuinely clean.
Sources and verification
Facts on this page come from official sources; anything that matters is worth checking against the originals:
- www.capella.edu: Capella University's official site
- capella.libanswers.com: Capella's official advising FAQ / Ask a Librarian answers
- capella.edu/capella-experience/flexpath: the official FlexPath format page
- www.hlcommission.org: Higher Learning Commission, the institutional accreditor
- apastyle.apa.org: APA Style, the official style authority