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Plagiarism

plagiarism_resubmit

Definition: The event is emitted anytime a submission is created for an assignment with plagiarism settings turned on.

Trigger: Triggered when a submission is resubmitted.

Payload Example:

{
  "metadata": {
    "client_ip": "93.184.216.34",
    "context_account_id": "21070000000000079",
    "context_id": "21070000000000565",
    "context_role": "TaEnrollment",
    "context_sis_source_id": "2017.100.101.101-1",
    "context_type": "Course",
    "event_name": "plagiarism_resubmit",
    "event_time": "2019-11-05T21:52:21.127Z",
    "hostname": "oxana.instructure.com",
    "http_method": "POST",
    "producer": "canvas",
    "referrer": "https://oxana.instructure.com/courses/27745/gradebook/speed_grader?assignment_id=154394&student_id=90175",
    "request_id": "1dd9dc6f-2fb0-4c19-a6c5-7ee1bf3ed295",
    "root_account_id": "21070000000000001",
    "root_account_lti_guid": "VicYj3cu5BIFpoZhDVU4DZumnlBrWi1grgJEzADs.oxana.instructure.com",
    "root_account_uuid": "VicYj3cu5BIFpoZhDVU4DZumnlBrWi1grgJEzADs",
    "session_id": "ef686f8ed684abf78cbfa1f6a58112b5",
    "time_zone": "America/New_York",
    "url": "https://oxana.instructure.com/courses/565/assignments/1234567/submissions/98765/turnitin/resubmit",
    "user_account_id": "21070000000000001",
    "user_agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/73.0.3683.103 Safari/537.36",
    "user_id": "21070000000000001",
    "user_login": "oxana@example.com",
    "user_sis_id": "456-T45"
  },
  "body": {
    "assignment_id": "21070000001234567",
    "attempt": 1,
    "body": "This is my submission to the assignment",
    "grade": "F",
    "graded_at": "2019-11-05T21:52:21.127Z",
    "group_id": "21070000000000099",
    "lti_assignment_id": "a1b2c3c4-z9x8-a1s2-q5w6-p9o8i7u6y5t6",
    "lti_user_id": "a1b2c3c4z9x8a1s2q5w6p9o8i7u6y5t6a2s3d4f5",
    "score": 99.5,
    "submission_id": "21070000000112233",
    "submission_type": "online_text_entry",
    "submitted_at": "2019-11-04T21:52:21.127Z",
    "updated_at": "2019-11-05T21:52:21.127Z",
    "url": null,
    "user_id": "21070000000098765",
    "workflow_state": "submitted"
  }
}

Event Body Schema

Field Description
assignment_id The Canvas id of the assignment being submitted.
attempt This is the submission attempt number.
body The content of the submission, if it was submitted directly in a text field. NOTE: This field will be truncated to only include the first 8192 characters.
grade The grade for the submission, translated into the assignment grading scheme (so a letter grade, for example)
graded_at The timestamp when the assignment was graded.
group_id The submissions’s group ID if the assignment is a group assignment.
lti_assignment_id The LTI assignment guid of the submission's assignment
lti_user_id The LTI id of the user associated with the submission.
score The raw score.
submission_id The Canvas id of the new submission.
submission_type The type of submission (online_text_entry, online_url, online_upload, media_recording)
submitted_at The timestamp when the assignment was submitted.
updated_at The time at which this assignment was last modified in any way.
url The URL of the submission (for 'online_url' submissions).
user_id The Canvas id of the user associated with the submission.
workflow_state The state of the submission, such as 'submitted'

Note: Timestamps will be in ISO8601 format, including an offset. Be sure to take that into account when parsing, since it’s unspecified which offset timestamps will use, and the offset may even change between different timestamps within a single event.