Turnitin similarity report in Inspera

Turnitin is a similarity reporting tool that is available in the Inspera Assessment platform. You can request similarity reports directly within the grading tool (i.e. when marking). This guide will provide you with information on Turnitin, along with step-by-step instructions on activating it within your test.

Similarity reports are available for the following Manually marked question types:

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Request Similarity Report

Request Similarity Report as Planner

As the Planner of a test, you can request similarity reports on all candidate submissions. This is done in the test creation phase (in Deliver), and the reports will be ready for the grader(s) once they start grading.

Set up a test in the Deliver module.
Under Options, select the Security drop-down and click Request Similarity report.

Finish creating the test with your desired settings.

Note: If you apply a template to the test you create, the setting Request Similarity report has been selected by default.

Refer to the Inspera Test settings guide (Step 12) for detailed instructions.

Request Similarity Report as Grader

If the Planner has not requested similarity reports in the preparation phase, no reports will be available when opening the Similarity check tab. The grader can click Request report under the Similarity check tab of a candidate's submission, and the report is generated.

Navigate to the relevant question.
Click on the Similarity N/A button.

Click on the Request report button.

The waiting message will be displayed. If the wait time is abnormally long, click on the Refresh button.

The Similarity report will be available for viewing.

View Similarity Report

Note: It will take up to 15 minutes after the test closes before a similarity report is published.

For both Planner and Grader roles, the Similarity Report can be viewed from:

from the Overview tab in Grade Workspaces, or
from the response you are marking

View Similarity Report from Overview

Click on the Similarity score you want to view.

View Similarity Report from student's response

Click on the Similarity tab.

Note: the response displays student ID (s46xxxxx) and question number 21.

Investigate the Similarity of student's response

The response with similarity matching will be displayed.
Optionally:

You can view additional information such as matching text, top matching source list, and additional source information and adjust the similarity report filters.
Click the cog button for settings where you can exclude search repositories, and exclude from similarity report.
Click the question mark icon for a tour of the workspace.

Click on the similarity score to view the details

The source text that contains the matching will be displayed with highlights.
Click on the Details button to view further information on the source text.

Source text details will be displayed with Student ID, name, email address.
Optionally, you can search for the student/owner of the source text:

Copy the student ID (s47xxxxx).
Click on the Close button.

Click on the Overview tab.
Paste the student ID on the search box.

The student in search will be displayed.
Click on the Marking tab.

The student's response (the source text - ID s47xxxxx) will be displayed (Question 21).

Note: In this example, even though the matching score is high (50%), the response is quite short and the matched texts show the common phrases in the course contents. That explains the normal similarity matching rather than any collusion or cheating.