Turnitin Repository – What you need to know and care
These days students are submitting their theses. Before submitting, they want to check it for similarity. Many instructors do so for their students. While others have created a class for their students to directly check. Nothing wrong so far. But the problem is that the instructors forget to check their assignment inbox settings. There is a setting "submit to:" which is by default set to "Standard Repository"
Now, once the students work is checked under this setting, it is submitted to Turnitin repository. After this, when the PPD cell checks the thesis, it compares against the student's own work and produces high similarity (like 90%).
Steps to take if you have inadvertently run the similarity check without proper assignment settings:
Do NOT delete the submission. It only adds an extra step in resolution.
Instead, in the Assignment Inbox, select the submission, click the “Delete” drop-down, and select “Request for permanent deletion.”
After step 2, change the assignment settings to “submit to: NO REPOSITORY”.
In case when you try to request for permanent deletion, the system flashes that the document is not in the repository, please do the following:
This is because earlier your assignment setting was set to “submit to: standard repository” and you checked the submission in that condition. Later you realized the problem and changed the setting to “submit to: no repository.” Turnitin does not allow to send a request for permanent deletion if the setting is to “submit to: no repository.”
1. Change the assignment settings to submit to the standard repository
2. Send request for permanent deletion (it should allow now)
3. Change the assignment setting back to submit to NO REPOSITORY
What is the use of the setting “submit to: standard repository”?
Published research papers, and other such material which have reached final stage are submitted to standard repository so that it is added to the database against which future checks are made. Thus, any person copying from your original work will be flagged in his similarity report.
