Whether you are using Turnitin as an educational tool or to check for plagiarism, it is imperative to understand how to interpret the results. The similarity number is NOT necessarily a percentage of plagiarized material. It may all be quoted and cited correctly. All this number does is indicate how much of the paper matched an outside source. How to Interpret the Report. Regardless of the similarity index, you will need to analyze the report to determine whether the student plagiarized.
If the reference list is very long, you can exclude it as well as short phrases to bring the number down. Below the similarity number will be all the sources to which parts of the paper matched.
There is a number next to each which tells you how much of the paper came from that source. For an in-depth look into the different features, please watch the three short videos in the right hand column. The assignment settings must be set to generate Similarity Reports. If this setting is not enabled, no submissions made to the assignment will receive a report.
A Similarity Report may not be generated, depending on the file type of the submitted paper. For instructor guidance on this topic, click here. For student guidance on this topic, click here. He or she has the ability to delete your submission so that you can make a new submission. If you encounter an inactive, gray report icon on your portfolio, your Originality Report is still processing and will be available within 24 hours. All rights reserved. Please refer to the detailed reference guide 'How to Interpret an Originality Report' for additional information.
Once a lecturer has created a Turnitin assignment within a Course you are enrolled in, you will be able to access the assignment and submit your assignment via Wattle.
This will depend on how your Lecturer has created your 'Turnitin Assignment'. The default approach of the ANU will be to allow students to submit their assignments to Turnitin, review their Original Reports, make any necessary modifications to their assignments, and then resubmit.
This approach ensures ongoing education and feedback for students regarding the 'text-matches' identified within their submission, and any missing or potentially incorrect citations or referencing can be corrected prior to final submission. Your Lecturer however may choose to take a different approach for a variety of reasons.
If you have any concerns, you should discuss them with your Lecturer in the first instance. Turnitin will only provide one Originality Report in any given 24 hour period. This means that when you first submit an assignment to Turnitin, you will receive an Originality Report in a matter of minutes. If you then resubmit that assignment, you will not see the new Originality Report for 24 hours. This is designed to prevent abuse of the Turnitin system. Remember, the aim is not to try and get as low a 'similarity index' as possible, and a moderate to high 'similarity index' may not be an issue depending on the nature of your particular assignment.
If you are unable to view an Originality Report it is likely that you have resubmitted your assignment. Don't worry if this happens close to the assignment due date — even though you will not be able to see a new Originality Report for 24 hours, your most recently submitted assignment will have been submitted to your lecturer.
For Microsoft Word files, Turnitin uses the a similar word count used by MS Word and does not count the words in text-boxes, footnotes, and endnotes. As such, PDF submissions will result in inflated word count as all the text will be counted as regular word count, including footnotes, endnotes and words in text-boxes. GradeMark is an additional feature within Turnitin which allows Lecturers and Tutors to mark student submissions completely online. Within an Originality Report, Lecturers and Tutors can use GradeMark to provide feedback through inserting digital comments, voice comments and Rubrics as well as provide an overall assignment grade.
The 'Post Date' refers to the date your Lecturer has specified as the date from which grades for a particular assignment will become visible to students. PeerMark is an addition feature available from Turnitin which enables students to view, review, score and evaluate papers submitted by their classmates.
This function is not currently available at the ANU, but is being assessed and may become available at a later date. The use of Turnitin at the ANU will be integrated with our existing learning management system Wattle. In order to protect student's privacy, additional functionality has been incorporated into this integration which will transform each student's email address into a unique identifier e.
This will effectively remove a student's name or 'U' number from their email address, so there is no information stored on the Turnitin database which can connect a student to their submission. If you do not want your name to be stored on the Turnitin database, you should remove your name and 'U' number from the content of your assignment e.
As described above, your email address will not be stored on the Turnitin database. From a legal perspective, when a student submits their assignment to Turnitin and the assignment is stored on the Turnitin database, the student provides Turnitin with a perpetual license to store and use their assignment for the purposes of textual similarity review only. It is important to understand however, that students retain the ownership of the content of their submissions, including their intellectual property.
It is also important to understand that Turnitin will not provide or display the content of a student's submission to any third party. However staff and students, as the end-users of the service, are required to confirm that they agree to the terms set out in the 'User Agreement'.
If Turnitin is being used in a Course you are enrolled in, the ANU highly recommends that students use Turnitin, however, it is not mandatory for either lecturers or students. If a student does not want to submit an assignment to Turnitin, the student may 'opt-out' of using Turnitin for that assignment.
If a student does not want to submit an assignment to Turnitin, the student may 'opt-out' by approaching their lecturer and explaining they do not want to use Turnitin.
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