Therefore, if Quotes have been excluded and passages have been highlighted, it might well be that these passages have been inadequately acknowledged by the student. You can learn more about excluding bibliography and quotes on Turnitin’s website. It is important to note that Turnitin does not recognise single quotation marks (‘…’). This includes indented blocks of text and anything in quotation marks as these are the most common ways of quoting and citing in an essay. Similarly, Quotes have been excluded by default. When you click on the Filter icon in the side bar, you will be able to see which parts of the submission have already been excluded from the similarity report (this will have been set up in the submission settings in Moodle).įor example, Bibliography is excluded by default within Moodle. This has been done to make results more accurate, as bibliographies almost always match other sources, and can therefore inflate the extent to which a student’s work matches other sources. Click on the percentage score to view the report The Turnitin report sits under the student’s submission.
Within the submissions table you will see a column entitled File submissions. Go to the Assignment where you wish to view reports and click View all submissions.
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How to view a student’s originality reports? You can read more about current Turnitin practice across the School and our recommendations for its the use in our Guidance for Turnitin use during the Summer assessment period. It is no replacement for academic knowledge and judgment in determining cases of academic misconduct/plagiarism. Turnitin provides a useful indicator to Markers of the extent of matched text within a document, but it cannot determine what those matches mean. Therefore, to use Turnitin to support academic misconduct, we recommend that interpretation of Turnitin reports should be the responsibility of academic colleagues. It is a text matching tool, not a plagiarism detection tool. Turnitin produces an originality report and a score (%) of matched text. TurnItIn is a service that matches text from student assignments against its extensive databases of previously submitted student coursework, websites and academic papers. 1.6.1 Using the Filter tool to exclude matches.1.2 How to view a student’s originality reports?.