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After logging in to Moodle, click on the course in which you want to view a Originality Report.
In this case, we click on Demo Course.
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Click on Assignment 1 Learning Strategies.
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Click the My Submissions tab to check your submission status.
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After submission, you have to wait for at least 30 minutes before you can generate an Originality Report.
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At this stage, the status of Similarity will be shown as Pending.
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Click on the Refresh Submissions tab to check if the Originality Report is ready.
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When it is ready, a percentage will be shown under Similarity. It indicates the percentage of the content of the submitted text that
matches with sources stored in Turnitin. In this case, it is 70%.
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To view the Originality Report, click on the percentage and a new window will open.
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The left side shows your submitted work and the right side shows a list of matching sources.
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The matching sources are listed from the highest to the lowest percentages.
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In this case, the matching source with the highest percentage is a “Publication”,
indicating that the corresponding part of your paper is similar to the content of a book written by Perry den Brok. “Publication”
includes commercial pages from books, newspapers and journals.
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The matching source with the second highest percentage has a percentage of 14%
and the source is a publicly accessible source, the “Internet source” -www.rainbowskill.com.
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“Student paper” indicates that matches are found between the submitted work and a student’s paper.
The name of the university where the student paper is from is also shown.
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The text is numbered and highlighted in a colour that corresponds to the matching source.
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View Match Breakdown
Mouse over a matching source, say “2 www.rainbowskill.com”, and
click on the arrow (View Match Breakdown) to view the matching details.
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The Match Breakdown of “2 www.rainbowskill.com” is then shown.
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View source in web page
Mouse over a source, say “www.rainbowskill.com”, and
click on the arrow (View source in web page) to view the matching text on the left.
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View/edit filters and settings
By default, the Similarity Index, which is 70% in this case, includes quotes and bibliography.
To change this setting, click on “ ” (View/edit filters and settings).
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Check the boxes “Exclude Quotes” and “Exclude Bibliography”,
then click on the Apply Changes button.
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Note that a new similarity index (61% in this case) is shown.
However, the similarity index displayed on the My Submissions page will not be changed.
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