TurnItIn for Students: View the Enhanced Similarity Report

Match Groups

The new Match Groups tab categorizes the overall similarity into four groups based on the usage of in-text citations and quotation marks. Each match is color- coded to find what areas in that submission need your attention.

The color and criteria for each match group are:

•  Not Cited or Quoted – Refers to text matches that are not written as quotations or have no citation to its original source that may indicate plagiarism. (Tis section may Include common words and terminologies).

Instructors should review to see if further action is required.

•  Missing Quotations – refers to exact match to cited text with no quotation marks.

Instructors should review if quotation marks or paraphrasing is required.

•  Missing Citation - This text is written as a quote, but lacks a citation to its original source.

Instructors should review to see if citation is required

•  Cited and Quoted - This text is properly quoted and cited.

Instructors should review to see if the correct referencing style has been applied

To display definitions in the side panel, select "Show Help" in the blue bar displaying the match total:

To hide the definitions, select "Hide Help":

Selecting a specific match group and viewing matches with source cards

Exploring a source card

Click on a match to view details in the source card. Information includes:

 1. Matching source ranking number: each highlight in the document has a source number associated with which is indicated in the top left of its corresponding source card.

2. Source type: according to Turnitin search databases (Internet, scholarly articles, and students papers).

3. The name of the matching source and the percentage matched with the document.

 4. The number of matching text blocks to that source as well as a total word count for all matches with the same criteria.

5. You can view the full source text in the same panel or click on the its direct URL. 

6. You can exclude the match into the Exclusions list either directly from the source card or from its corresponding text on the document.

Navigating multiple matches in one source card

When there are more than one match to a single source, you can move to each one in the document using the < and > arrows inside the source card.

Sources

Provides a list of sources organized in descending order by highest total similarity percentage. (These sources are the same as those detailed in source cards in the Match Groups tab.)

• Click on a source to highlight its corresponding section in the paper.

Overlapping sources

The overlapping sources list will display all matched sources to the same text that will be prioritized in this order:

1. Internet
2. Publications
3. Submitted Works (student papers)

Viewing other sources matched to the same text

1. Click on View other sources option at the bottom of the source card for that match to expand a list of all overlapping sources matched to the same text with the current top source at the top of the list.

Show overlapping sources list

Select the “show all overlapping sources” option to display individual source cards for all matches.

Applying Filters

Should be used only by your instructor

Document Details are now found within Submission Details in the new Similarity Report view.

1. To open Submission Details, select the “i” icon in the top right-hand corner of the report.

2. Details include the class, assignment, student, and file information. 

Viewing Source details for submitted works

When a matched source is a student paper either submitted to your institution or another, and you have permission to view it, selecting the  icon under the source name will display available details about that source.

Source details include:

• Name - The name of the author of the document.
• Email - The author's email address.
• Upload Date - When the document was submitted to Turnitin.
• Assignment - The name of the assignment.
• Submission Title - The title of the document as submitted to Turnitin.

The Similarity Report can be downloaded as a PDF file. Select the download icon at the top of the report and then select Similarity Report to download the PDF.