Activate Ouriginal (Urkund) in an assignment

NOTE! Urkund changes its name to Ouriginal. Therefore, it now says Ouriginal in the setting for Assignments. Otherwise, the product works in the same way as before the name change.

The text comparison tool Ouriginal is integrated in Canvas for assignments. If you want to review a student's work through Ouriginal you simply create a regular assignment and activate Ourignal in the assignment settings.

Choose Submission Type: Online. Check the box Text Entry or File Upload. This is important!

Choose Plagiarism Review: URKUND. Settings / check boxes are available. Choose when to show report to students.

The submission type must be Online
Note that Ouriginal only will review Text entry and File uploads. Choose one or multiple of these options to get access to the Plagiarism Review
The option Anonymous will remove the students name from the analysis, but it will still connect the analysis to the student inside Canvas.
The checkbox Anonymous causes the student's username to be removed from Original's metadata and from the analysis report. Ouriginal still connects the analysis to the right student inside Canvas. Please note that this function does not mean that students can be graded anonymously. To grade anonymously, you need to follow this guide Anonymous Grading.
Do not save documents submitted to this assignment in Ouriginal means that the students' submitted documents will not be saved and used as a sourc by Ouriginal in future plagiarism checks.

A picture of the 'Show report to students' alternatives. Choose Never.

When you choose Ouriginal as Plagiarism Review you will be able to select if and when a student will be able to see their own analysis from Ouriginal.

If you choose Immediately, the student will be able to see their own analysis as soon as it is complete processed in Ouriginal.

Choose Never and the student will never get a report from the analysis.

See results from the analysis

The Gradebook. Bell icon=An ongoing URKUND analysis. Colored icon (blue/green)=Complete analysis.

The analysis from Urkund can take from a few minutes up to a day. You will find the status of the analysis inside Gradebook.

In the overview you will find small symbols that indicates how far the process of the analysis has gotten. The symbol with the clock indicates that the analysis is still processing.

A colored block indicates that the analysis is completed.

Picture of URKUND analysis in SpeedGrader.

The results of the analysis is best shown in SpeedGrader.

In the right corner you will find a colored block with a percentage that shows the outcome from Ouriginal.

The colored block links directly to the analysis. You will also get an email with the results from Ouriginal.

When students assignments resembles each others

Urkund compares every assignments with each other. With this tool you will be able to se if the assignments are too similar to each other which can indicate on foul cooperation.

Picture of two similar texts/assignments. The name the similar assignment is displayed. Next to the name there is a checkbox. Uncheck this to ignore the resembles.

In the analysis you will be able to see parts of the assignment that are similar too each other. This will also show to the students if you have chosen the option where the students could read their own analysis.
The name of the files that resembles each others will appear in the upper panel. Teachers can log in to their Umu-id where you can find links that you can download from Umu.
It could be possible that there is a fair reason to why two assignments resembles each others. Be observant if the student have submitted an assignment multiple times. In that case, the analysis will probably show a high percentage with the students own works. You can choose to deselect alternative source to get a result that indicates how the analysis outcome would have been without the other source.
Students can not download other students assignments via Urkund. They will only be able to see the part of the assignment that resembles another students assignments.

Observe that the first analyzed assignment will be regarded as the original. In the example below you will se a part of an assignment(the yellow part) that have gotten a 100% analysis report. You will not be able to determine which student who has copied the other. The only thing we can observe is that the two assignments have a great similarity to each other and that one of the students assignments were analyzed first.

If you don't want mail from Ouriginal

Urkund will send you a report to your email each time an analysis is completed which can result in many emails. If you only use Ouriginal within Canvas you can easily find the analysis within Canvas. Therefor the emails may be perceived as unnecessary.

This shows how you turn off the emails from Urkund:

Click the icon for settings in URKUND.

Go to https://secure.urkund.com/account/auth/login (Länkar till en externa sida.)
Choose Shibbolet-inloggning to the right and search for Umeå universitet in the list. Log in with Umu-id.
Click on Inställningar
Unclick the tick from Skicka rapport via e-post
Click on Uppdatera.

This will be shown to the students

When a student submit an assignment where Ouriginal is activated, there will be a small ticking box where the student must mark the box. In general, there is not obvious that Ouriginal is activated in the task for the student. Therefore, it could be a good idea to inform the students that Ouriginal is going to be used.

Student view of an assignment that will be analysed in URKUND. The student have to check a box before handing in the assignment.

If you have chosen to let the students see the results from the analysis it will be easiest for the student to find the report in Omdömen. The symbols that the teachers saw will also appear for the students.

When an analysis is completed, the student can click on the colored block to get directly to the analysis.

Student view of ongoing/completed analysis of their assignment.