Interpreting Turnitin reports
Answer
Where instructors have set it up, students can see the detail of their Turnitin reports in their assignment Dropbox in D2L.
- Navigate to your submitted assignment in D2L.
- Click on Submission link (in the completion status column) to the right of your assignment to open it.
- The submission history opens up. Click on the Turnitin Similarity score (percentage) to open your report.
A similarity report is divided into three areas:
- Your name and the name of the assignment are displayed at the top.
- The assignment takes up most of the screen. Areas that are highlighted are where Turnitin has found matches to other content.
- Your overall similarity score and the external sources that have been matched to the paper are listed in the Match Overview column on the right.
If the Match Overview column is hidden, click on the Match Overview button (the number in the red box) to display it.
The text in your submission and the sources that were found that match your text are highlighted. They are numbered and colour-coded for easy detection.
If you click on a highlighted number on the report, a popup showing the matched section from the external source will be displayed.