One of Turnitin’s most useful functionalities is its ability to gauge a student paper’s originality. Turnitin will compare student submissions to website contents, scholarly articles, and papers submitted by other students to check for plagiarism. The Originality report will tell you how much of a student’s paper is similar to other content.

1. From your course page, click on the Turnitin assignment () to go to its summary page (if you are not there already).
2. Click on the  tab to see all of the student submissions.
3. You will see a listing of all of the students in the course and their submissions (if they’ve submitted anything yet). The  column contains similarity scores (e.g. ). The higher the percentage, the more similar the paper is to other documents. Click the percentage to see the report.
   Note: Originality reports take time to generate. If the  for a submission reads , it still needs time to process.
4. The student’s paper will appear in a new window. You can see the sources that the paper is most similar (and percentage scores of how much of the paper resembles the source) to on the right in the  pane. Click any source to be taken to the part of the paper that most resembles that source.
5. Click the highlighted text in the paper or the  icon that appears next to a source to see a pop-up containing the similar text as it appears in the source material.
6. Close the window when done.