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Both teachers and students can use originality reports to check work for authenticity of the students' work. When either the teacher or student does an originality report, Google compares the student's text in a file against webpages and millions of books on the WEB. The report that is generated creates live links to the detected sources on the WEB and flags the text that is not cited. The purpose is to help students avoid plagiarism, and to assist teachers as they check student work.

Previously, originality reports only worked with Google Docs. They now work with Google Slides.

Some Notes From Google:

Before you begin:

If you have a Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals account, you can turn on originality reports for 5 assignments per class. To get unlimited originality reports,schools need the Teaching and Learning upgrade or Google Workspace for Education Plus.
You can view originality reports for 45 days. After that, you can run another report in the grading tool.
When you turn on originality reports for an assignment, students can run 5 reports on their work before they turn it in. It's a good way to have them self-monitor for plagiarism. You can’t see the reports students run. After students run their last report, they can continue to work on the assignment before turning it in.
For schools using Google Workspace For Education Plus, or Teaching and Learning Upgrade editions, originality reports can check previous student submissions from the same school or school district. The Workspace administrator must enable "school matches."
Originality reports do NOT check against other domains (other school districts).
Originality reports now work in several languages

Turn on originality reports when you create an assignment

On a computer, when creating an assignment in Classroom, look on the right sidebar.
On the right side of the assignment in edit mode, check the "Check plagiarism" (originality) box.

Turn on originality reports after getting student work

If you turn on originality reports after a student submits their work, the student can't run a report until you return their work. To let students run a report, return their work and allow them to resubmit their assignment.

On a computer, open the assignment you wish to add an originality report to.
Open the edit mode of the assignment
On the right side of the assignment in edit mode, check the "Check plagiarism" (originality) box.

To review an originality report of a student's work

When students turn in their work, Classroom automatically runs an originality report for each submitted Docs file, visible only to you. If a student unsubmits and resubmits an assignment, Classroom runs another originality report for the teacher.

On a computer, within the Classwork Tab, click to view a particular student's file
On the right side of the open file (Doc), click # flagged passages. If none of the student's text was flagged, you will not see any flagged passages.
To highlight material that contains cited or quoted passages, from the student or the source, next to # cited or quoted passages, click the switch to On.

To review flagged passages in the originality report:

Click Web matches.
At the bottom, click Next or Back to scroll through the passages.
(Optional) To see the match for a specific passage, in the document, click a highlighted passage.
Click Back to go back to the summary.
Click Close to return to the grading tool.

Printing an originality report

When the originality report is open, click the print icon at the top
Choose one of the options:
- save as pdf
- save to your Drive
- print the report

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