Turnitin Similarity is a plagiarism detection tool. It generates reports after checking students’ assignment submissions against institutional and online databases. If there are instances where a student's writing is similar to, or matches against, any of the sources, Turnitin will highlight it for instructors or TAs to review. Turnitin also flags anomalies such as hidden text and replaced characters.
The Similarity Score itself should not solely be used to determine the academic integrity of a student’s paper. Instead, consider the use of quotations, citations and bibliographic material when reviewing the score. For more information, please visit Interpreting the Similarity Score.
If you suspect plagiarism, please refer to UNM Policy in the Faculty Handbook and Pathfinder for the appropriate course of action.
The video below is a training session from 12/7/2022 if you are interested in watching it.
Note: Legacy submissions from SafeAssign, Blackboard’s plagiarism detection tool (in use at UNM August 2015 – May 2022), were imported in the UNM Turnitin institutional database.
Instructor Documentation
Assignment Setup
Sample Syllabus Statement (coming soon)Creating a Zero Point Draft Assignment
Creating an Assignment that uses Turnitin
Customizing the Similarity Report
How to access the Similarity Report
Setting Similarity Report availability
Submission indexing options
Insights
FlagsThe Similarity Report
How your students submit to an assignmentAccessing the Similarity Report
Bibliography and quote exclusion definitions
Excluding content from the Similarity Report
Excluding an individual source
Excluding search repositories
Excluding text from the Similarity Report
Re-including a source
Interpreting the Similarity Score
Using the search
Sharing the Report
Student Documentation
Assignments
Submitting to an assignment
File requirements for your submission
The Similarity Report
Accessing the Similarity Report
Interpreting the Similarity Score
Bibliography and quote exclusion definitions
Printing a document
Using the search