It is the responsibility of your teaching staff to determine the quality of the Similarity Report and to assess whether parts identified by Turnitin as non-original may be reasonably considered as plagiarism. Turnitin does not make a judgement as to whether plagiarism has occurred. When papers are submitted into Turnitin, sections of the papers that match other sources are highlighted and identified in the Similarity Report. Conversely, a low score may contain text that does cause concern.

A high score may contain legitimately cited text, and so is not a problem. Similarity Reports only indicate non-original text. It is very important to understand that the Similarity Score does NOT indicate whether plagiarism has taken place.

A new window will appear containing your assignment submission showing colour-coded shading where your text has been found to match other sources, a list of those sources, and the percentage similarity to your submitted text.

Similarity Report icon on the Assignment submission page

If your Turnitin feedback is available for viewing, you can see it by clicking the Turnitin icon which displays as coloured flag.

You will see the assignment details and a Submission section on the right-hand side showing confirmation of your submission time and date.

Open your subject in Canvas and navigate to the assignment.

When this option has been enabled, the Similarity Report will be available to you from the assignment submission area. This is a preference that is decided by teaching staff, including whether the Similarity Report is available immediately after you submit or after the due date. This report highlights the matching or non-original text within the document when compared to web pages, electronic journals and other assignment submissions made to Turnitin.Īt the discretion of teaching staff, student users may be able to view the Similarity Report for their own submission to Turnitin. What is a Similarity Report?ĭepending on the options selected by your teaching staff, papers submitted to Turnitin may generate a comparison document known as a Similarity Report.

This software is used by many Universities throughout Australia and internationally.

Turnitin is an online web-based program that works by comparing electronically submitted papers to billions of pages of content located on the Internet and proprietary databases as well as the work of other students whose papers have also been submitted into the system. How to access, download and interpret the Turnitin Similarity Report.

Turnitin receipt