The document provides steps for teachers to view originality reports on Turnitin for student assignments. It explains how to access an assignment on Turnitin and view the submission inbox to see student submissions. Teachers can then click on a student's name to see the originality report, which shows the submitted text side by side with matching sources from publications, websites, or other student papers. The report highlights matching text and lists sources from highest to lowest percentage of matches. Teachers can view more details on matches by clicking buttons in the report. Settings can also be adjusted to exclude quotes or bibliography from the similarity index percentage shown.

1. Viewing the Originality Report
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After logging in Moodle, click on the course you want to view the Originality Report.
In this case, we click on “Demo Course”.

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Click on Assignment 1 Learning Strategies.

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Then click the Submission Inbox tab to check the status of student submission.

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On the Submission Inbox page, enrolled students are listed on the left side of the screen.

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If you want to view the submission details of a particular student, click the Expand icon “ ” next to the student’s name.
In this case, we click the Expand icon next to STUDENT02, LTTC.

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Details like submission date, similarity percentage, etc. will be shown.

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To view the Originality Report, click on the percentage and a new window will open.

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The left side shows the original submitted work and the right side shows a list of matching sources.

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The matching sources are listed from the highest to the lowest percentages.

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In this case, the highest percentage is “Publication”, indicating that the corresponding part of the paper is similar to the content of
a book written by Perry den Brok. “Publication” includes commercial pages from books, newspapers and journals.

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The second highest percentage is 14% and it is from a public accessible “Internet source”, www.rainbowskill.com.

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“Student paper” indicates that the work is similar to another student’s paper.
The name of the university where the student studies will also be shown.

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The corresponding text is numbered and highlighted in the same colour as the matching source.

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View Match Breakdown
Mouse over a matching source, say “2 www.rainbowskill.com”, and click on the arrow (View Match Breakdown)
to view the matching details.

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The Match Breakdown of 2 “www.rainbowskill.com” is shown.

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Mouse over a source, say “www.rainbowskill.com”, and click on the arrow (View source in web page)
to view the matching text on the left.

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View source in web page
Mouse over a source, say “www.rainbowskill.com”, and click on the arrow (View source in web page)
to view the matching text on the left.

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View/edit filters and settings
By default, the Similarity Index, which is 70% in this case, includes quotes and bibliography.
To change this setting, click on “ ” (View/edit filters and settings).

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Check the boxes “Exclude Quotes” and “Exclude Bibliography”, then click the Apply Changes button.

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Note that the new similarity index (61% in this case) is shown for your reference only.
The similarity index of the Originality Report will not be changed.