Warning: Turnitin similarity and AI-writing reports are indicative and require review and interpretation. Encountering similarity, flagged content, or material suspected to be AI-generated does not automatically evidence academic misconduct without interpretation. Initial marks should be provided based on intellectual content with any concerns around academic misconduct escalated through designated channels in your school.
The process for marking submissions to a submission point with Turnitin enabled is the same as marking work on an individual submission point. However, a similarity and AI writing report is also included for each student, provided the work they have submitted meets the criteria for review.
To review the similarity report on a Turnitin-enabled submission point:
- Navigate to the submission point and click the assignment title to enter it.
- Click on Submissions to review all submissions to the submission point.
- Change the Student Status filter to Submitted. To have a similarity and AI writing report, a student will need to have submitted work.
- Depending on when you are reviewing similarity and AI writing reports, change the Marking Statuses filter to the required state. For example, if you are reviewing these reports prior to work being marked, change the filter to Needs Marking.
- Enter a student’s submission by clicking on their name in the list.
- In the top right of the student’s work pane, there will be a similarity match score displayed (see figure X). Click on this to review the similarity and AI writing report.
- The similarity and AI writing report for the student’s work you are reviewing will open in a new tab within your browser (see figure X). It will display the student’s work with annotations highlighting areas that should be reviewed, if any.
- At the top of the newly opened Turnitin tab, there are three views you can select between (see figure X).
- Similarity: this provides a review of the work that highlights areas similar to other works stored within the Turnitin database. PLEASE NOTE: similarity is indicative and requires interpretation. It should not be assumed that similar sections automatically indicate academic misconduct.
- Flags: this provides a review of ‘flags’ or potential indicators that the document has been manipulated in an attempt to bypass plagiarism detection. For example, there may be hidden quotation marks that affect the perceived level of quoted text, masking plagiarised text.
- AI Writing: this provides an estimate of the percentage of AI-generated text in the document, highlighting any areas of concern.