Instructor’s guide — How to create assignments with PlagiarismCheck in Brightspace

Welcome to a quick guide about using PlagiarismCheck in Brightspace LMS!

1. On your Home page in Brightspace select  a course where you would like to enable PlagiarismCheck.
2. Click “Content.”
3. Create a module.
4. To create a PlagiarismCheck assignment, in a module click “Existing activities” and select “External Learning Tools.”
5. In the next window click on the tool associated with PlagiarismCheck.
6. This will add a PlagiarismCheck assignment to your module. Click on this assignment to change the title and continue creating it.
7. Change title, add instructions, select start date, due date, and assign max grade for this assignment. The assignment you create will be visible to students once you enable its visibility.
8. Before publishing this assignment, you can configure how a similarity report will look like:

• Exclude sources with less than % — allows you to exclude sources from an overall similarity score, which are equal or less than a percentage you choose. You will see them on the list of sources as inactive, but you can make them active on a report.
• Include references — by default we do not include in an overall similarity the text formatted as references. Tick this checkbox if you would like such text to be included.
• Include quotes — by default we do not include in an overall similarity the text formatted as quotes. Tick this checkbox if you would like such text to be included.
• Exclude self-plagiarism — this setting disables matches in previous assignments submitted by a student (self-plagiarism). If you would like these matches to be visible in sources of similarity, untick this checkbox.

9. Make sure the visibility switcher is enables, otherwise, students won’t see the assignment.

10. When ready, click “Publish” in the top-right corner of this page. 

Read about how to see student’s submissions and access similarity reports here

Should you have any questions, please contact support@plagiarismcheck.org.