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Advanced Similarity Study settings

When creating a paper assignment, you may select to view and modify any of the advanced assignment options. The advanced assignment options are viewed by clicking the + Optional Settings link.

Generate Similarity Reports for submissions?

Select whether yous would like Similarity Reports to exist generated for submissions to the assignment. If y'all accept called to set this to Yep, continue to step 2. If you lot prefer to set this selection to No, delight skip to stride iii.

If the assignment is set to take any file type Turnitin volition only generate Similarity Reports for the following file types:

Microsoft Discussion; PowerPoint; WordPerfect; PostScript; PDF; HTML; RTF; OpenOffice (ODT); Hangul (HWP); Google Docs; Slides; and Sheets (submitted via the Google Drive submission option); and plain text files.

Report generation and resubmission options

Select from the dropdown list when, after educatee submission, that y'all would like Similarity Reports to be generated. In that location are 3 options for this assignment setting:

  • Immediately (first study is final) - Similarity Reports for all submissions will be generated immediately. Students cannot resubmit papers. Submissions must be deleted by the instructor to enable resubmission.
  • Immediately (can overwrite reports until due date) - Students may resubmit equally oft they need to until the due date. Similarity Reports for the initial submission, and the side by side three resubmissions, will generate immediately.

    The first iii resubmissions will generate a new Similarity Report straight away. Later 3 attempts, a 24-hour wait is enforced to generate Similarity Reports for all subsequent resubmissions.

    Resubmission attempts are shared betwixt yous and your students. If you lot attempt to resubmit on their behalf, one of their attempts volition be used.

    Just the latest submission is bachelor to the teacher or educatee. Previous versions are overwritten.

    Similarity Reports volition regenerate within an hour of the due date and time to permit student submissions to compare confronting one another within the assignment. A change in the Similarity Report similarity index may outcome from the regeneration of the reports. This choice is typically used when students are self-reviewing and revising their submissions and able to view the Similarity Report. No resubmissions are allowed after the due engagement and time of the assignment.

  • On due date - Similarity Reports will not be generated for any submission until the due engagement and fourth dimension of the assignment. Students may resubmit as many times as needed until the due date and fourth dimension without receiving reports. Resubmissions may non exist made afterwards the due appointment and time of the consignment.

If an instructor chooses to form without a pupil submission and the Immediately commencement written report is final is selected, students will not be able to submit to the assignment once the Grading Template is created.

Excluding the bibliography

Select whether y'all would similar text actualization in the bibliography, works cited, or references sections of assignments to be excluded from beingness checked for matches in the Similarity Alphabetize when generating Similarity Reports. This setting can exist overridden in individual Similarity Reports.

Excluding quotes

Select whether yous would like text appearing in the quotes of an consignment to be excluded from being checked for matches in the Similarity Index when generating Similarity Reports. This setting tin be overridden in individual Similarity Reports.

Excluding small sources

The exclude small-scale sources feature works by excluding sources in the source listing that are beneath a prepare give-and-take count or per centum threshold. For example, if the threshold is set up to 3%, any ane% or ii% match would be removed from the current written report'due south source list (Match Overview or All Sources). With this characteristic, you lot accept greater control over sifting out smaller sources, assuasive you to focus on larger, more problematic and suspect sources within Similarity Reports.

Once yeah has been selected, a yellow box will appear assuasive you to set the source exclusion threshold.

This setting can be overridden or adjusted in individual Similarity Reports via the Turnitin Viewer. You can arrange the exclude small sources consignment setting at any time by clicking the edit icon to the right of the consignment name.

Allow access to Similarity Reports

Choose whether you would like your students to view the Similarity Reports for their submissions to this assignment. This option gives instructors more flexibility and control when creating assignments.

Repository options

If the repository options are enabled for an teacher past the administrator, 2 or iv options will announced within the Submit papers to dropdown list. Select from the dropdown listing where you lot would like papers to be submitted to. The settings provide you with the ability to select whether papers are stored in a Turnitin standard paper repository, your establishment's paper repository, the student's choice of paper repository, or no repository at all.

The benefit of submitting papers to the standard paper repository is that student papers can be compared against by students from others institutions. You tin can engage with Instructors from other institutions to help each other investigate potential cases of academic misconduct.

However, by selecting to submit papers to the establishment's newspaper repository, this ways that the assignment volition only exist available for comparison against other students' submissions within the institution. The papers will nonetheless be compared confronting all of the Turnitin databases y'all have selected.

If yous select no repository, your students' papers will not exist stored in the Turnitin standard paper repository or the institution's paper repository, therefore meaning that the papers volition non be checked for collusion betwixt students of the aforementioned or different institutions.


The search options setting allows y'all to select which Turnitin repositories students' submissions will be checked confronting when processing Similarity Reports for papers. This allows an instructor to condone a source type if the comparison against this blazon of source is not needed. The similarity index percentage may decrease if a repository option is deselected.

The available search targets are listed nether Search options. The targets with a check mark are those that will exist searched. To remove a search target repository, click on the bank check box to remove the check mark. Clicking on an empty pick box next to the repository volition re-add the repository as a search target. This selection will not modify any currently generated Similarity Reports or Overall Similarity Index scores.

The currently available search targets are:

  • Student paper repository - works previously submitted in classes and assignments on Turnitin.
  • Institution paper repository - a private repository of student papers unique to your institution.
  • Current and archived internet - a repository of archived and live publicly available cyberspace pages containing billions of pages of existing content and tens of thousands of new pages added daily.
  • Periodicals, journals, & publications - third party periodical, journal, and publication content including many major professional person journals, periodicals, and business publications.

Changing advanced assignment option defaults

If whatever changes have been made to the advanced assignment options, an additional selection volition be available at the bottom of the options panel. The teacher is asked Would yous like to save these options as your defaults for futurity assignments? Tick the box to take all future consignment creations use the advanced assignment options that take been selected every bit the default setting. Leave the box empty to go along with the previous default advanced consignment selection settings.

The default settings can be changed at whatever time when creating a new assignment or updating an existing assignment.