Google Classroom: Turn on originality reports

You and your students can use originality reports to check work for authenticity. When you run a report, it compares a student’s Google Docs, Google Slides, and Microsoft Word files against webpages and books on the internet.The report links to detected sources and flags uncited text. school matches, the report will also check against previous student submissions from your school or district. In addition, students' work is copied to the school matches corpus, so that it can be compared to other students' work, when all of the following is true:

  • Originality reports are enabled for the assignment
  • The file type is supported
  • You can view originality reports for 45 days. After that, you can run another report in the grading tool.
  • When you turn on originality reports for an assignment, students can run 3 reports on their work before they turn it in. You can’t see the reports students run. After students run their last report, they can continue to work on the assignment before turning it in. 
  • In order to create an originality report, documents must not exceed a file size of 2MB.

Note: Due to privacy laws, parents and guardians can't access Classroom or student assignments. They can get email summaries if the teacher allows it. For details, go to About guardian email summaries.

Turn on originality reports when you create an assignment

On a computer, go to classroom.google.com.

Click the class>Classroom.

Click Create>Assignment.

Check the Check plagiarism (originality) box.

Turn on originality reports after getting student work

If you turn on originality reports after a student submits their work, the student can't run a report until you return their work. To let students run a report, return their work and allow them to resubmit their assignment.

  1. On a computer, go to classroom.google.com.
  2. Click the class>Classwork.
  3. Next to the assignment, click More :>Edit.
  4. Check the Check plagiarism (originality) box.

Review an originality report

When students turn in their work, Classroom automatically runs an originality report for each submitted Docs or Slides file, visible only to you. If a student unsubmits and resubmits an assignment, Classroom runs another originality report for the teacher.

  1. On a computer, go to classroom.google.com.
  2. Click the class>Classwork.
  3. Click the assignment>View assignment>the student’s file.
  4. On the right, click # flagged passages.