These instructions are for users of the Turnitin website. If you are accessing Turnitin via a LMS, please see our LMS guidance.
In this guide:
Accessing the Similarity Report
- To access a Similarity Report, log in to Turnitin. If you are already logged in, access the main homepage by selecting the All Classes tab from the top of any page.
- From the main homepage, locate the class name and select the Open button to view the assignment dashboard.
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Find the assignment you submitted to. Under the Similarity column, you'll find your similarity score. This is a numerical and visual indicator of the amount of similarity we found in your work.
- Selecting a similarity score percentage will open the Similarity Report in a new window so you can view details about any matches found.
If a new window does not appear, you may need to add turnitin.com to the list of sites allowed to create pop-up windows on the web browser that you are using.
Why is there no Similarity Score?
There could be two reasons a similarity score does not appear under the Similarity column:
- If your instructor turned off student access to the Similarity Report, you will see a paper icon with a line cut through it
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- A dash ( — ) under the Similarity column means that the Similarity Report is still being generated and will be updated once it has finished processing.
Turnitin compares submissions against an ever-expanding database of active and archived Internet pages, a subscription repository of periodicals, journals, and publications, as well as a repository of previously submitted papers.
The similarity score is the overall percentage of the paper's text that matches to other sources; it is not an assessment of whether the paper includes plagiarized material. The Similarity Report is a tool for instructors and students to easily find text similarity within submitted work.