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Originality Reports

 1. How can I Analyze the Originality Report (Turnitin assignment)?


The new integrated view of the Originality report and Grademark is called "Feedback studio".

Detailed help for Turnitin

Video about feedback studio

Typical plagiarism cases:  
- Original summarized version from the Internet archives
- New, full version (more detailed, but needs time to study)


2. What is detectable?

Many resources are not in the Turnitin database so using your own knowledge to detect a suspected case of plagiarism is required. The database to which papers are compared consists of three primary sources:

  • Both a current and an archived copy of the publicly accessible on the Internet
  • Commercial pages from books, newspapers, and journals
  • Student papers already submitted to Turnitin

Please note, that in extreme cases it may even be questionable what has been created first - the uploaded paper, or the matching text Turnitin is working with.

Note: It is not supported by CEU to use AI detection tools. Only members of the disciplinary committee can use this if necessary.


3. The report shows 100% or 0% or pending. What does it mean?


100% almost always means that the exact same file were uploaded to Turnitin multiple times (100% means that all text is the same, name of the author, class, etc.). You can filter this source out to recalculate.

If a paper does not contain any matches this could indicate that:

  • The paper is completely original OR
  • Turnitin does not found the source (s) (Yet?)

Wait for at least 24 hours, then if it is important, you can try to resubmit. If there is still no report, contact me and we can file a request to Turnitin about this particular paper.

4. No report was generated

These can be the reasons:

a) The file format is not supported, or the file is not readable
Turnitin only accepts certain file types. Microsoft Word (.doc, .docx), OpenOffice/LibreOffice (.odt),  PDF (.pdf), Plain text (.txt), RTF (.rtf), HTML (.html). Files outside these types, or corrupted files, cannot be processed. Some files may technically have the right extension but still be unreadable (e.g., password-protected PDFs, scanned images without OCR).

b) The student did not accept the Turnitin agreement (EULA). Turnitin requires students to accept the End User License Agreement (EULA) before processing their submissions. If the student declines, Turnitin will not generate a report. You need to ask the student to resubmit and accept it for the report to be generated.

c) Technical issue with the Turnitin connection - clicking on the "resubmit to Turnitin" usually solves this.