Deter students from plagiarising and encourage good academic practice.

Ensure a level of equality and parity when checking the similarity of students’ work against the vast range of possible online sources.

Identify collusion between students on their course and potentially from other institutions who use Turnitin in the UK.

Help students as a formative learning tool around referencing.

Check that online sources in an assignment have been properly cited and the text has not simply been copied without appropriate referencing.

The similarity report is an effective way to: If the new window does not appear, you may need to add to the list of sites allowed to create pop-up windows on the web browser that you are using.This guide describes what a similarity report shows and how to interpret matches highlighted on a student’s assignment submitted to Turnitin. If you see dash under the Similarity column, this means that your report is still being generated and will be updated once processing has finished. If you have been restricted from viewing the Similarity Report, we will show a paper icon with a line cut through it. If the similarity score does not appear under the similarity column, your instructor may have prevented access to the similarity report by students. You can switch on the similarity layer at any time.

Selecting the View button, opens the viewer with the Feedback layer open. This is a numerical and visual indicator of the amount of similarity we found in your work.įollowing the link will open the Turnitin Feedback Studio viewer with the similarity layer open so you can read more about any matches we've found. Under the Similarity column, you'll find your similarity score. Find the assignment inbox for the assignment you submitted to.From the main homepage, select the name of the class to view the class portfolio.To access a Similarity Report, you must firstly access the main homepage by clicking the All Classes tab from the top of any page.The similarity report is a tool for instructors and students to easily find matches or similar text within submitted work. The similarity score is a percentage of the paper's matches to other sources it is not an assessment of whether the paper includes plagiarized material. Turnitin compares papers against an ever expanding database of Internet pages, archived pages that might not be available any more, a subscription repository of periodicals, journals, publications, and a repository of previously submitted papers.

Originality Check Student Website Accessing the Similarity Report and Similarity Score

Turnitin similarity score