You may have noticed a couple of new options when adding assignments to Google Classroom. One of the new options is Originality Reports.
This option is in Beta, which means that Google is testing Originality Reports. Typically, after 6 to 9 months, Google releases the product fully with the desired features. Please feel free (always!) to click the Question Mark at the bottom left of most Google Products and suggest new features.
Let's take a look at Originality reports in-depth:
This option is in Beta, which means that Google is testing Originality Reports. Typically, after 6 to 9 months, Google releases the product fully with the desired features. Please feel free (always!) to click the Question Mark at the bottom left of most Google Products and suggest new features.
Let's take a look at Originality reports in-depth:
What are Originality Reports?
Originality reports are used when students are submitting Google documents to you through an assignment in Google Classroom. The document can be an English writing assignment, a Social Studies paper, or a Science lab report.
Originality reports check the student's work against websites and books to ensure that students haven't plagiarized - on purpose or inadvertently. Google announced choosing our own private repository of past student submissions will be available soon. Instructors can then receive originality reports that include student-to-student matches within the same school. (1) If you are familiar with TurnItIn, their Similarity check includes both the web search and TurnItIn's repository for every school.
How does it work?
By clicking the Originality reports when creating the assignment, every submission will automatically receive an Originality report. Students have the option of running three Originality reports before turning in an assignment to help them identify any citation errors or omissions. Be sure to point this out to your students!
What does it look like:
(Thanks to Amy Byron for providing these helpful images!)
You will find the Originality report information when you open an individual submission. (No Originality report results will show on the assignment page where you access student submissions.)
Your Originality report findings will appear on the right-hand side. You can see one of the submissions below has flagged passages. (Note: Lab reports typically have a lot of matches due to the narrow focus of the work. Many students need to report the same process and findings!)
Clicking 'X flagged passages' opens a dialogue box. Google bolds the text it finds similar in the student work and highlights text from the work it finds most similar, displaying the link to the matched text below.
Use the caret > at the bottom of the page to scroll through each flagged passage to determine if you need to address an issue.
Next steps:
Teachers in all departments are welcome to test Originality Reports. I really would appreciate feedback from teachers who also obtain TurnItIn Similarity reports to compare the results.
After the Originality checker is fully released, teachers will only be able to run Originality reports for 3 assignments during a school year. Additional Originality Reports will require us to upgrade to Google For Education Enterprise, which means it will cost money. Having useful data and experience with both Originality Reports and TurnItIn (a paid-for service) will help us assess where to invest our resources.
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