
How is iThenticate different from Turnitin? The following guides will help you use and understand Turnitin®: No percentage or colour in the report can fully evaluate whether text has been plagiarized.

*Note that there is no “safe” colour or percentage. The percentage ranges are associated with colours, as follows:ĭark Blue = 1% to 24% (one word or more matching)

These words may be in one passage or may be in several, separate passages.Ī lower percentage rating indicates that most of the content is original and a higher percentage rating indicates that much or all of the content matches content found in other sources and requires further investigation. If, for example, the overall percentage for a submission is 10%, then 10% of the document can be matched to sequences of phrases in the database. The percentage represents the number of phrases that the program finds in common with database content and divides that number by the total number of words in the file.

In other words, the percentage displayed shows how much of the submission was not original. The similarity report is a measure of the similarity between your work and work found on websites, electronic journals and others’ work that has been stored on the UWaterloo’s Turnitin® database. Click on the coloured square beside the percentage to access the report. Once your submission has been scanned and compared to the Turnitin® databases, a similarity report will appear in the dropbox. server, files are kept on a local D2L server, and your submissions are added to a private pool of UWaterloo documents, but they are not accessible to others as part the general Turnitin database. If you do not wish to use this software, please contact your instructor as soon as possible, and discuss an alternative within the first week of the term. Therefore, if you have concerns about your privacy and or security, you may opt out of using this software and choose another alternative with your instructor. Submitted files are housed on the Turnitin® server based in California, and these files are subject to the USA PATRIOT ACT, 2001.

Students will be given due notice, in the first week of the term and/or at the time assignment details are provided, about arrangements and alternatives for the use of Turnitin in this course. server, therefore students must be given an alternative (e.g., scaffolded assignment or annotated bibliography), if they are concerned about their privacy and/or security. Students’ submissions are stored on a U.S. Turnitin® is used to verify that all materials and sources in assignments are documented. : Text matching software may be used to screen assignments in this course. If your instructor is using Turnitin®, they must include the following statement on your course outline:
