Generate Originality Reports for Student Submissions

SETTING UP ORIGINALITY REPORTS AND OTHER ADVANCED FEATURES

Once you enable Originality Check on the Dropbox Properties tab, an options area appears at the bottom of the New/Edit Dropbox page. Here you can enable detailed Originality Reports for dropbox submissions, control end user visibility, set the Originality Reports frequency, select which sources to check the submission against, and decide whether the current submission you are running the report against is added to the file index for new submissions to be checked against.

Enable Originality Reports 1. Select Enable Originality Reports.

2. Select the Generate Originality Reports check box in the Originality Checking Options section of the Properties tab.

3. Assuming you have set the basic settings, skip down to the Submission Options.

Submission Options 1. Select an option under Files allowed per submission.

a. Unlimited OR b. One file per submission.

2. Select an option under Submissions.

a. All submissions are kept OR b. Only the most recent submission is kept OR c. Only one submission allowed

OriginalityCheck Options 1. Click Show Advanced Originality Checking Options to expand the advanced options area if it is not already open.

2. You may select Allow submitters to see Originality Reports. Under Originality Reports. Click Save.

3. Under GradeMark Available to Students enter a date and time that students may access your markup of their papers.

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4. You may change the frequency of your Originality Reports under Frequency. Choose either:

a. Automatic originality checking on all submissions OR b. Identify individual submissions for originality checking

4. Select which sources to check a submission against. Choose any combination of the following options:

a. Use paper database b. Current and archived internet c. Periodicals, journals, and publications Click Save.

5. Allow submissions to be added to the index (used in future searches) by selecting Allow other files to be checked against submission. Click Save.

6. Under Grammar Check Settings Select the checkbox and a handbook to use if you wish to have grammar checked.

Manually submitting files for originality checking If your dropbox folder has Identify individual submissions for originality checking enabled, you will need to manually submit file submissions for originality checking. This is useful if you don’t want to check every file submission for plagiarism, but still want the ability to do so on a case-by-case basis. Manually submit files for originality checking Ensure that Identify individual submissions for originality checking is enabled in the properties tab on the New/Edit Dropbox page.

On the Folder Submissions page, click the Submit file for originality checking icon to the far right.

Viewing Originality Reports View Originality Reports from the Folder Submissions page. When a report is available, the status changes from In-Progress to a percentage rating, which indicates the level of matching content.

Viewing a file submission summary A lower percentage rating indicates that the content is likely original and has not been copied; a higher percentage rating indicates the content is likely not original and has been copied from another source. The percentage ranges are associated with colors:

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Blue >= 0 and < 20% Green >= 20 and < 40% Yellow >= 40 and < 60% Orange >= 60 and < 80% Red >= 80 and <= 100%

View an Originality Report for a submission Click the colored section beside the percentage rating to view the associated Originality Report.

Opening Originality Reports The Originality Report is comprised of two panes. The right pane lists all of the matching sources, including the percentage of text that matches and a link to the online content. The left pane displays the submission text using colored highlights to draw attention to the matching content. TIP: For more detailed help with Originality Reports, click the help link in the top-right corner of the report page.

Files compatible with OriginalityCheck The following file types are compatible with OriginalityCheck: • MS WORD (DOC, DOCX) • WORDPERFECT (WPD) • HTML (HTM, HTML) • POSTSCRIPT (EPS) • RICH TEXT (RTF) • ACROBAT PDF • PLAIN TEXT (TXT)

NOTE If a file type is incompatible with OriginalityCheck, the Information icon displays instead of the percentage rating.

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