Turn on originality reports

You can use originality reports to check student work for authenticity. When you run a report, it compares a student’s Google Docs, Google Slides, and Microsoft Word files against webpages and books on the internet. The report links to detected sources and flags uncited text. The report will also check against previous student submissions from your school or district. In addition, students' work is copied to the school matches corpus, so that it can be compared to other students' work.

Notes

• You can view originality reports for 45 days. After that, you can run another report in the grading tool.

• In order to create an originality report, documents must not exceed a file size of 2MB.

Turn on originality reports when you create an assignment

1. On a computer, go to classroom.google.com.

2. Click the class

3. Click Create

4. Check the Check plagiarism (originality) box.

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Turn on originality reports after getting student work

1. On a computer, go to classroom.google.com.

2. Click the class > Classwork.

3. Next to the assignment, click More Edit.

4. Check the Check plagiarism (originality) box.

Review an originality report

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

1. On a computer, go to classroom.google.com.

2. Click the class > Classwork.

3. Click the assignment > View assignment > the student’s file.

4. On the right, click # flagged passages.

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