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Advanced Similarity Report settings

When creating a paper assignment, you may select to view and modify any of the advanced assignment options. The advanced assignment options are viewed by clicking the + Optional Settings link.

Generate Similarity Reports for submissions?

Select whether you would like Similarity Reports to be generated for submissions to the assignment. If you accept chosen to set this to Yes, continue to step 2. If you prefer to set this option to No, delight skip to step 3.

If the assignment is set to accept any file blazon Turnitin will only generate Similarity Reports for the following file types:

Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, WordPerfect, PostScript, PDF, HTML, RTF, OpenOffice (ODT), Hangul (HWP), Google Docs (submitted via the Google Drive submission option), plain text files.

Report generation and resubmission options

Select from the dropdown list when, after pupil submission, that you would like Similarity Reports to be generated. There are iii options for this consignment setting:

  • Immediately (first study is terminal) - Similarity Reports for all submissions volition be generated immediately. Students cannot resubmit papers. Submissions must be deleted past the instructor to enable resubmission.
  • Immediately (tin overwrite reports until due date) - Students may resubmit as often they demand to until the due date. Similarity Reports for the initial submission, and the next three resubmissions, will generate immediately.

    The commencement three resubmissions will generate a new Similarity Study straight away. After three attempts, a 24-hour expect is enforced to generate Similarity Reports for all subsequent resubmissions.

    Resubmission attempts are shared between you and your students. If you endeavor to resubmit on their behalf, one of their attempts volition be used.

    Only the latest submission is available to the instructor or student. Previous versions are overwritten.

    Similarity Reports will regenerate within an hr of the due engagement and time to permit educatee submissions to compare against one another inside the assignment. A change in the Similarity Study similarity alphabetize may outcome from the regeneration of the reports. This selection is typically used when students are self-reviewing and revising their submissions and able to view the Similarity Report. No resubmissions are immune after the due engagement and time of the assignment.

  • On due date - Similarity Reports will not be generated for any submission until the due appointment and fourth dimension of the assignment. Students may resubmit as many times as needed until the due appointment and time without receiving reports. Resubmissions may non be made after the due appointment and fourth dimension of the assignment.

If an teacher chooses to grade without a student submission and the Immediately beginning written report is last is selected, students will not exist able to submit to the consignment in one case the Grading Template is created.

Excluding the bibliography

Select whether yous would similar text appearing in the bibliography, works cited, or references sections of assignments to exist excluded from being checked for matches in the Similarity Alphabetize when generating Similarity Reports. This setting can be overridden in individual Similarity Reports.

Excluding quotes

Select whether you would similar text appearing in the quotes of an assignment to exist excluded from being checked for matches in the Similarity Index when generating Similarity Reports. This setting can be overridden in individual Similarity Reports.

Excluding modest sources

The exclude pocket-sized sources feature works by excluding sources in the source list that are below a gear up word count or pct threshold. For example, if the threshold is set to 3%, whatever one% or two% match would be removed from the current written report'southward source listing (Match Overview or All Sources). With this characteristic, you have greater command over sifting out smaller sources, allowing you lot to focus on larger, more problematic and doubtable sources within Similarity Reports.

Once yes has been selected, a xanthous box will announced allowing you to gear up the source exclusion threshold.

This setting can be overridden or adapted in private Similarity Reports via the Turnitin Viewer. You can adjust the exclude minor sources consignment setting at whatsoever time past clicking the edit icon to the right of the assignment name.

Let access to Similarity Reports

Choose whether you would like your students to view the Similarity Reports for their submissions to this assignment. This choice gives instructors more flexibility and control when creating assignments.

Repository options

If the repository options are enabled for an instructor by the administrator, ii or iv options will appear within the Submit papers to dropdown listing. Select from the dropdown list where you would similar papers to exist submitted to. The settings provide you with the power to select whether papers are stored in a Turnitin standard paper repository, your institution'due south newspaper repository, the student'southward choice of newspaper repository, or no repository at all.

The do good of submitting papers to the standard paper repository is that educatee papers can exist compared against by students from others institutions. You can engage with Instructors from other institutions to assistance each other investigate potential cases of academic misconduct.

However, by selecting to submit papers to the institution's paper repository, this means that the assignment will only exist available for comparison against other students' submissions within the institution. The papers volition still be compared against all of the Turnitin databases yous have selected.

If you select no repository, your students' papers will not be stored in the Turnitin standard paper repository or the establishment's paper repository, therefore meaning that the papers will not exist checked for collusion between students of the same or different institutions.


The search options setting allows you to select which Turnitin repositories students' submissions will be checked against when processing Similarity Reports for papers. This allows an instructor to disregard a source type if the comparison against this type of source is not needed. The similarity index percentage may decrease if a repository choice is deselected.

The available search targets are listed nether Search options. The targets with a check mark are those that will exist searched. To remove a search target repository, click on the check box to remove the check mark. Clicking on an empty choice box next to the repository will re-add the repository as a search target. This selection will not alter whatsoever currently generated Similarity Reports or Overall Similarity Index scores.

The currently available search targets are:

  • Student newspaper repository - works previously submitted in classes and assignments on Turnitin.
  • Institution paper repository - a private repository of student papers unique to your institution.
  • Current and archived internet - a repository of archived and alive publicly available internet pages containing billions of pages of existing content and tens of thousands of new pages added daily.
  • Periodicals, journals, & publications - third party periodical, journal, and publication content including many major professional journals, periodicals, and business organisation publications.

Changing avant-garde assignment choice defaults

If any changes take been fabricated to the advanced consignment options, an boosted option will be bachelor at the bottom of the options panel. The instructor is asked Would you like to salvage these options as your defaults for future assignments? Tick the box to have all futurity assignment creations use the advanced assignment options that have been selected every bit the default setting. Leave the box empty to go on with the previous default advanced assignment option settings.

The default settings can be changed at whatever time when creating a new consignment or updating an existing assignment.