Turnitin-report: interpet similarity as a teacher


Turnitin Integrity report

In Moodle Assignment and Quiz there is more simple Turnitin Integrity. In the Integrity report teacher can see the similarity per centage, sources and can also filter sources. 

In Assignment open View All submissions view and the report can be observed by clicking the colored percentage button.

 

In the similarity report there is on the right side Overall similarity and by clicking it more detailed view of the sources opens.

 

All source similarities are marked in the text.

 

Excluding sources

In sources overview you can exclude sources by clicking the exclude icon or after opening the source similarity there is Exclude Match button in the end of that source text field.

 

You can view excluded sources later (Exclusions) on and also include again the excluded sources.

Turnitin Feedback studio report

 
In Moodle Turnitin assignment 2 activity creates a Feedback Studio –report of the submitted assignment, which includes the Similarity report and Grading. 

You can reach the report in the submission inbox. The students will only see the similarity percentage of their own works:

The view shows the submitted assignments, time of submission and the similarity percentage. By clicking either the assignment title or the percentage, both the teacher and the student may open the report.


Similarity report



This is an example of a Feedback Studio –report, and the similarity percentage is shown on the right upper corner. You can open the Feedback tools from the layers icon.


The whole text is on the left and the match overview is on the right. The sources are numbered and the same number appears in the text. By clicking the number at the beginning of the highlighted text, the original text appears. The original source is often also available. It is often good to filter things that automatically cause similarities, such as the list of references.

Filtering the report

You can filter the report by clicking Filters icon


 

Excluding one or multiple sources of the comparison can be done in the view with all sources by clicking the icon:

1. Select All Sources list


2. Click at the end of the list Exclude Sources -button

In this example the same submission has been sent to Turnitin before. 

3. The list of matches opens and you can select a specific source(s) by ticking.

Note: If the source includes multiple subsources, you can see them in a separate listing when clicking the arrow.  You can also select those by ticking.


4. Then click Exclude -button:


 

In the text: you can exclude a particular numbered text item if its similarity is irrelevant:

 
1. First click the number of the text item. In the Match Overview- view the source is colored. Click the arrow-button: 




2. The Match Breakdown view opens, where you can click the checkbox for the match. 

3. Click the Exclude sources -button at the bottom. => text area marked with color disappears


AI writing detection 

The last tool in teacher's report is AI writing detection. It is working now in English and Spanish texts.