Enabling the Turnitin Similarity Report

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Turnitin Feedback Studio is a tool that can be used to improve writing skills, by identifying instances of unintentional plagiarism. Feedback Studio compares submitted work to an extensive database including web pages, journals, articles, and other student submissions. Access the Similarity Report within VU Collaborate to view highlighted matched text, identified sources, and an overall similarity percentage score. This report shows how to enable the Turnitin Similarity Report in the Assessment Dropbox.

On this page:

Assessment Dropbox
Before you begin
Manage Turnitin
Similarity Report Settings
Online Grading (QuickMarks)
More Options
Save Changes
Support and Resources

Assessment Dropbox

1. In a space on the navbar, select Assessments (1), then Dropbox (2).

assessment dropbox

2. Either edit an existing Dropbox, by selecting the dropbox menu (3), then Edit Folder (4), or create a new Dropbox, see Creating an Assessment Dropbox.

edit dropbox

Before you begin

1. Enter a Due Date (1) and select Save (2) or you will receive an error message when you try to enable the similarity check.

before you begin enter due date and save

Manage Turnitin

1. Expand Evaluation & Feedback.

2. Scroll to the bottom of the Evaluation & Feedback panel and select Manage Turnitin (1).

select manage turnitin

Similarity Report settings

Enable settings to generate similarity checks.

3. Select Enable Similarity Report for this folder (1), to turn on the similarity check.
4. Select Allow learners to see similarity scores in their submission folder (2), to allow students to be able view the reports.
5. Select Automatic similarity checking on all submissions (3), to generate checks automatically (rather than the teacher manually selecting individual submissions).

select similarity check settings

Online Grading (QuickMarks)

Only select Online Grading if you want to use the QuickMarks to provide feedback on the page. All Grading should occur in the dropbox.

Expand to show Online Grading settings to enable QuickMarks

More Options

1. Select More Options, to open the Optional Settings window.

more options

Submission settings

Submit papers to (1)
- Standard paper repository, submitted to Turnitin's database, the default setting.
- Institutional paper repository, use for documents with sensitive data.
- do not store the submitted papers.
Allow submission of any file type, set by Dropbox settings.
Allow late submissions, set by Dropbox settings.
Optional settings (2)
- Enable Translate Matching, optional.
- Enable grammar checking using ETS e-rater, optional.
Attach a rubric, don't select, use Dropbox rubric.

Compare against (3), select all options.

Student paper repository
Institutional student paper repository
Current and archived website content
Periodicals, journals, and publications

Similarity Report

Generate similarity Reports for student submissions (4)

Generate reports immediately (students can't resubmit)
Generate reports immediately (students can resubmit up until the due date), after 3 resubmissions, reports generate every 24 hours, most frequently used setting
Generate report on the due date (students can resubmit up until the due date)

Exclude settings (5), leave unselected, can be toggled on and off in the similarity report

Exclude bibliographic materials
Excluded quoted materials
Exclude small sources

Exclude assignment template (6)

Upload documents i.e. forms, and questions, to be excluded from the matched text in the similarity report. Templates can be modified up until the first assessment submission.