Turnitin analysis report

The analysis report can be opened by clicking on the percentage of a submitted assignment in Brightspace.

This opens the report in Turnitin. See the example below:

We will now go through the report item by item.

Downloaden & details
At the top right, you can download the report and see more details about the submission.

Document
In the middle of the page you can see the document itself. All pieces of text that are colored can be found in Turnitin’s database. This does not mean immediately that it is plagiarism.

If you click on the colored text, the corresponding source appears on the right in the sources menu.

Sources

Below that you can see the similarity score, filter options and two view options.

The similarity score indicates what percentage of the text of the submission matches (almost) word for word with text from our databases. How high the score is is not in itself that important. A high score does not unequivocally demonstrate plagiarism, and vice versa. What matters is the match itself – what is it, was the source correctly indicated, etc.

Match groups:
Here you see the sources found grouped according to the type of text match.

Sources:
Here you see all the sources in order of the submitted document.

Filters:
These filters provide options to exclude student databases, Internet content and scholarly texts. You also have an additional set of exclusion filters:

Source card

A source card can be opened by clicking on it.

The source card shows name of the source, the database, and the number of matching words and text blocks. On the right is the percentage of similarity between the entry and this source.

Below that is the link to the source, the similarity in context of the source, and button to display the full source text.

At the very bottom under “View other sources” is other sources that contain (part of) the same text as the primary source.

At the top right, you can click on the circle with a line to exclude this source from the document. However, if there are more sources with the same similarity, they will remain. At the bottom of the screen you can use “exclude match” to exclude the match in all sources found. Other ways of excluding sources can be done through the filters as indicated above.

Flags

Finally at the top below the filename you have flags.

These are integrity flags. These include 2 types:

• Hidden Text Flags
  • Characters that were made white so they are invisible on white background.
• Replaced characters.
  • Characters that appear normal in a word, but in a different alphabet than the surrounding word.