Help Center: Excluding Sources from an Originality Report

Instructors have the ability to exclude sources from Originality Reports on a source by source basis. This is to enable the instructor to see what additional sources exist for a paper and how those sources fit with other sources. This also enables instructors to see sources that may be covered by sources that contain 100% matches to the paper.

How to exclude a source from an Originality Report

The class name link on the instructor homepage

1. Click on the class name

The View link to the right of the assignment name

2. Click on the "View" link to the right of the assignment name

The Originality Report icon

3. Click on the Originality Report icon

The small, gray square with an x in it which is the exlude button to the right of the source you would like to exclude

4. Click on the small, gray, exclude button to the right of the source you would like to exclude

The OK button in the confirmation prompt

5. Click "OK" to confirm the exclusion

Additional Information

  • Only instructors can exclude sources from an Originality Report.
  • All the sources found for a paper (including those which were excluded by the instructor) are listed in the single source mode of the Originality Report. For information on viewing the different modes of an Originality Report, please view our article on switching between viewing modes in Originality Reports.
  • A source can be reincluded in an Originality Report by clicking the small, square with a plus to the right of the source in the single source mode.
  • For information on reading Originality Reports, please view our Originality Report video.
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