If you wish to use Safari (Mac OS) with Ouriginal, you must configure the browser preferences as outlined below.
- Open Safari
- Click the Safari menu and select Preferences.
- Click the Privacy tab.
- Uncheck the Prevent cross-site tracking box AND uncheck the Block all cookies.
- (Both of these preferences must be disabled if you want to use Safari with Ouriginal.)
- Close the Safari Preferences window and refresh or restart your browser.
Ouriginal unfortunately doesn’t index the type of sources. If Ouriginal found a tertiary source first, it will show this source instead of a primary source. You can view alternate sources in the Sources tab.
The Ouriginal algorithm searches for the least sources with the highest similarity. For example, a similar text can be found on the same Wikipedia page, but it can also be found in three different journals. Ouriginal will then show the Wikipedia page as level 1, since it has the most similar text but the least different sources; and show the three different journal pages as level 2, since it also has similar text but multiple sources.
Unfortunately Ouriginal has access to less journals as you may have grown to expect from using TurnitIn. Ouriginal is working on expanding sources as much as possible.
It is possible that the source is not available in Ouriginal, and therefore has not been included in the report. You can add the source by:
- Submitting the URL to Ouriginal via the link in the plagiarism report under the Sources-tab.
- In the Analysis Overview click on View the entire document
b. Selected the Sources-tab
c. Under Are you missing a source from the list?, fill the URL of the source and click on Send.
d. It will take approximately a week before the URL is indexed; after that the document can be resubmitted for an up-to-date plagiarism scan.
This will not change the plagiarism score for the original file. To change the original submission’s score, you will need to delete it and resubmit after the suspected source document has been uploaded.
No, unfortunately this is not possible.
The size limit for documents is 200MB. The file formats that are supported by Ouriginal are currently: .doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .sxw, .pptx, .pdf, .pdf2.0, .txt, .rtf, .html, .htm, .wps, .odt, .odp, .ods, .tif, .tiff, .ps, .hwp and .pages.
LaTeX is not supported. It is best to convert a LaTeX file to flat text yourself before uploading it to Ouriginal, so that you can double check the text before submitting the file.
Ouriginal accepts pdfs in general, however, some come from legitimate and illegitimate word to pdf converters, where the text extracted from them turn into strange symbols, which are not possible to analyze. These are often rejected by the system. We also cannot accept images converted to a pdf format. Documents submitted to Ouriginal may not contain any protection or encryption.
Unfortunately this is not possible in Ouriginal. It is possible to exclude the source from the scan, however if the source is also used outside of quoted text, this would then also be excluded from the report.
Unfortunately this is not possible. You can however exclude certain sources in the plagiarism report.
This would mean that the work is copied from protected student’s work, and can therefore not be accessed by us. You can look at the name and source data to see whether the document is from THUAS or from another organisation.
Ouriginal does not recognize pictures, links (copied or shared), videos, scanned documents, or protected files. Latex code will have to be converted to flat text before it can be recognized by Ouriginal. Because of the complicated nature of Latex, it is strongly recommended to convert this yourself, or not use Ouriginal at all.
This is not possible unfortunately.
It will only change the way you see the comparison, it will not affect the similarity score.
Anyone with a teaching role in a Brightspace course (Course manager, Instructor and Teaching Assistant) can access the Ouriginal similarity report.
Your students can share their report with you via the ‘Share analysis report’ button, under the Profile menu. They can fill in your email address and you will receive an email with a link to the report.
Self-plagiarism is committed when a student submits the same (or updated) document to an assignment enabled for plagiarism by a different instructor; regardless in which course the assignment is given. In such cases, the receiver (instructor) can choose to exclude a source using the Sources tab in the relevant report so that it is not considered plagiarism.
A student cannot commit self-plagiarism if they submit a document several times to any assignment enabled for plagiarism by the same instructor.
The recommendation is that only one instructor enables the plagiarism tool for all the related assignments.