1. How to create a Unicheck assignment

2. How do I create a unique grading item for a Unicheck assignment?

3. Configuring settings for the Unicheck assignment

4. Let students run a plagiarism check on their own (student precheck)

5. How do I know when Unicheck reports are available?

6. Interpreting the similarity results

7. How do I add grades to submissions?

8. How do I allow students to resubmit?

9. How do I submit on behalf of a student?

10. How do I add annotations to Unicheck report?

11. How do I download original submissions and Unicheck reports?

12. How do I download Unicheck report for specific submission?

13. I want to suggest a feature, provide feedback

 

How to create a Unicheck assignment

Open a Course \ Content \ Section where you want to create a Unicheck assignment. Click Add Existing Activities button to see a list of options and select External Learning Tools:

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Click Create New LTI Link, enter a title and a Unicheck Url and click Create and Insert:

Unicheck Url: https://corplti.unicheck.com/lti/launch

Note: Use this Unicheck Url for all Unicheck assignments.

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Note: BrightSpace automatically creates a unique grading item for new Unicheck assignment when instructors use Create New LTI link feature to create new Unicheck assignment. If the same Unicheck LTI link is used multiple times (i.e. instructors insert an existing link, instead of creating a new one), then grading item will be the same for all inserted links. The new column (grading item) in the grade book is added automatically only AFTER the first evaluation is made. At this moment new unique grading item is created and connected to the assignment by BrightSpace automatically. Further grades will be associated with this unique grading item.

 

Click on the name of the assignment to open it:

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How do I create a unique grading item for a Unicheck assignment?

BrightSpace automatically creates a unique grading item for new Unicheck assignment when instructors use Create New LTI link feature to create new Unicheck assignment. If the same Unicheck LTI link is used multiple times (i.e. instructors insert an existing link, instead of creating a new one), then grading item will be the same for all inserted links.

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The new column (grading item) in the grade book is added automatically only AFTER the first evaluation is made. At this moment new unique grading item is created and connected to the assignment by BrightSpace automatically. Further grades will be associated with this unique grading item.

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For more details on how to create a Unicheck assignment with automatic creation of a unique grading item, see section How to create a Unicheck assignment.

 

Configuring settings for the Unicheck assignment

Open an Unicheck assignment and click Settings.

 

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Use this option to create ‘Draft’ assignments. Submissions in ‘Final’ assignment won’t be matched against ‘Draft’ assignments. 

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When you turn on Auto Exclude Citations & References, Unicheck will search for citations (APA, MLA, Turabian, Harvard, Chicago) and references in the text and will highlight them. Citations are marked with blue color, references are marked with violet color. Marked citations and references might increase originality level.

Automatic exclusion of self-plagiarism Unicheck automatically skips student drafts for a given assignment when Unicheck resubmit feature is used. All other matches will be reported.

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When Student pre-check is On, a student will see a Drafts folder, where a user can upload draft versions of the assignment and run a similarity check. Student will see a standard Unicheck report for every similarity check. Pre-checks (both student files and similarity reports) are not visible to the teacher. 

For large texts like thesis or dissertations or similar documents, recommended % value is 0. Otherwise, you might unintentionally omit relevant sources. For words filter, minimum value is 8 (i.e. sources with less than 8 words will be omitted). Set a higher value to omit larger sources.

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When enabled, students will 1) see a similarity score 2) have view access to Unicheck report. 

 

Let students run a plagiarism check on their own (student precheck)

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When Student pre-check is On, a student will see a Drafts folder, where a user can upload draft versions of the assignment and run a similarity check. Student will see a standard Unicheck report for every similarity check. Pre-checks (both student files and similarity reports) are not visible to the teacher.

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How do I know when Unicheck reports are available?

Open an Unicheck assignment to see the list of student submissions. You will see records for students that simply opened the assignment (Open status) and for those who have turned in the files (Submitted or Report ready statuses). Unicheck report is available when status is - Report ready. Click on a student (row in the table) to view submission details.

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All initial submissions will be recorded as attempt #1. Instructor may allow individual (recycle icon) or group resubmissions. For bulk resubmissions - select multiple or all students and click Bulk resubmit .

Students who opened assignment, but not submitted the file(s) will have status Opened. 

 

Interpreting the similarity results

Unicheck report uses several colors:

Click on the marked area in the report to see a matched source (alternatively, click on a source in the list to show a matched text): 

Click Omit source icon to filter out specific matched source: 

 

To include omitted source, scroll down and click Include source icon:

 

Click View original source icon to view a matched text in the source:

View a match in a source (screenshot below). Click Show plagiarism sections, to browse matches one by one. If you do not see a match on the page, click Show hidden text.

If Auto Exclude Citations and References option is turned ON in the Unicheck assignment settings, citations and references will be filtered out automatically. To manually filter out citations and references, go to Exclude tab and turn on/off the feature.

Citations identified by Unicheck are marked with blue background color (Unicheck identifies citations according to MLA, APA, Chicago, Turabian and Harvard style guides):

 To turn off a specific citation, click Omit citation icon: 

To turn on a citation, click Enable this citation icon: 

References identified by Unicheck are marked with violet background color.  

Please note, when Exclude options for citations/references are ON, total similarity % will be adjusted accordingly:

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Letters with character replacement and other forms of cheating (font/encoding replacement etc.) are highlighted with bold red formatting with underline. Unicheck reverses replaced encoding and searches for similarities. If match is found - a source is included in the report. Character replacement typically indicates a cheating attempt.

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How do I add grades to submissions?

The new column (grading item) in the grade book is added automatically after the first evaluation is made.

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BrightSpace will create unique grading item for a Unicheck assignment automatically only if instructors use the workflow described in section How to create a Unicheck assignment (i.e. click Create New LTI link every time they create a new assignment). Otherwise, if you simply insert an LTI link, new assignments will have the same grading item as previously inserted LTI links.

Option#1

Add a grade on the page of submissions and click Enter key to save the grade: 

Option#2

Add a grade on the Unicheck report page. Grade is saved automatically: 

 

How do I allow students to resubmit?

All initial submissions will be recorded as attempt #1. Instructor may allow individual (recycle icon) or group resubmissions. For bulk resubmissions - select multiple or all students and click Bulk resubmit .

When you initiate a resubmission, STATUS changes to Resubmit, and a student(s) can upload files again.

Previous attempts are not deleted, you can access both Unicheck report and original submission for any past attempt. 
Note: Latest attempt will not be compared against previous ones. This allows for draft or revision workflow.

 

How do I submit on behalf of a student?

Click Student view (i.e. View) button next to a student name to access the assignment on behalf of specific student. This view mode allows you to see and do what a student can do in his/her assignment.

 

A purple frame indicates that you have ‘become’ that student and can submit on behalf of that person:

Click Add files to upload a file(s) and then click Final submission to submit the documents. Once you see the status File(s) successfully submitted! you can click Back to return to a normal view (assignment submissions table).  

 

How do I add annotations to Unicheck report?

To add annotations, click Commenting mode:

 Select an area in the student text, and type in a comment, click Post to save the comment:

Create new comments, edit or delete existing ones. When finished, click Publish comments to let a student see the comments (until published, comments are also not included in the Unicheck PDF report):

Student will see a notification when new comments are posted:

Selecting specific comment will automatically scroll the report to the relevant place in the document.

 

How do I download original submissions and Unicheck reports?

Click the Download icon to download specific file or click Original files button to download all original submissions at once. Files will be placed in a zip archive. Archive will include only latest attempt for every student.  

 To download Unicheck reports in bulk, select one or more students and click Generate reports:

Usually, reports are ready in seconds. In case you generate a lot of reports, please, allow for a minute or so for processing your request. You will see a moving progress bar which indicates the status of reports. When ready, the button will change to Download reports:

Click the button to download a zip archive with Unicheck reports for selected students. 

How do I download Unicheck report for specific submission?

Open the Unicheck report and click Generate Report button. Once a report is ready, the button name will change to Download Report. Click it to get a PDF version of the report. 

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I want to suggest a feature, provide feedback

Feel free to contact Unicheck account manager and suggest improvements or provide feedback. We’ll do our best to improve the product/service based on your suggestions.