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Ouriginal review in Canvas and standalone

Ouriginal should be used by teachers and examiners when students submit text files in Canvas. Ouriginal can also be used outside Canvas, which can be good for thesis courses.

Two ways to use Ouriginal

Guides from Ouriginal

Ouriginal Quick Start Guide (pdf)

Email submission of assignments to Ouriginal (pdf)

The Ouriginal Webinbox (pdf)

Video: tutorial on how *Urkund works in the Canvas Assignment

*Urkund is the old name of Ouriginal.

Ouriginal is a tool used for plagiarism review of assignments and should be used by teachers and examiners when students submit text files in Canvas. Ouriginal is recommended to be used as an integrated tool in Canvas Assignments, but can in exceptional cases be used independently. Regardless of how you access Ouriginal, the result of the review will be presented to you in a similarity report.

You can use Ouriginal:

1. In Canvas and in connection with "Assignments"

2. Outside Canvas via "Webinbox".

1. Create an assignment in Canvas with plagiarism review (Ouriginal) 

Good to know about multiple submissions of the same file 

Different versions of a file will not be matched agains each other if the file are submitted from the same email address or in the same Canvas assignment from the same student account. As a teacher, can choose to include or exclude specific matches in the analysis report.

When you create an Assignment in Canvas, you can activate the tool Ouriginal while filling in the assignment settings. The report from Ouriginal will then be available directly in Canvas. To activate Ouriginal: 

  1. Go to Assignments in the course menu. Open the Assignment where you want to activate Ouriginal in edit mode, or create a new assignment by clicking on the + Assignment button.
  2. Set submission type to "Online". The submission can be of the type "text entry" or "file uploads" as the plagiarism review is text-based. To see which file formats Ouriginal supports, see the question "What file formats do you support when submitting?" (ouriginal.com)  in their FAQ. It is recommended to restrict the upload file types to file formats supported by Ouriginal. Please note: Other file formats submitted to Ouriginal will return an error.
  3. Now the option Plagiarism Review should appear. Select Ouriginal from the drop-down menu.
  4. Choose whether you want the plagiarism review to be anonymous or not. Note! Even if you made the assignment anonymous in Canvas, you must still check this option for the plagiarism review to be anonymous, and vice versa.
  5. Choose whether students' documents are to be saved at Ouriginal when they are sent in via the Assignment. The recommendation is that the documents are saved so that Ouriginal can use them to find plagiarism later. Note! If students' documents include sensitive or classified information the documents should not be saved in Ouriginal.
  6. Choose if or when the students get to read the report. "Never" is the standard and recommended setting. All settings except "Never" allow the student to view the report, including viewing and downloading other sources (including other students' submissions) if there is a similarity.
  7. Fill in the rest of the options for the assignment and save. 

You can read more about assignments in Canvas on the page The Assignment function in Canvas .

View report from Ouriginal in Canvas

The report from Ouriginal can be viewed directly in Canvas, and you can access it either via SpeedGrader or the Gradebook.

Via SpeedGrader

  1. Open the desired assignment and enter SpeedGrader by clicking on the "SpeedGrader" button in the sidebar.
  2. Under "Submitted files" is the file the student has submitted. In front of the file name you will either see a timer, if the report is not ready yet, or the "Similarity Score" in percent.
  3. Click on the percentage for the Similarity Score to open up the entire report.

Read more about SpeedGrader in Canvas .

Via the Gradebook 

  1. Click on Grades in the course menu to get to the Gradebook and find the desired assignment.
  2. If a Similarity Score report from Ouriginal has been generated, there will be a red label next to the symbol for the student's submission.
  3. Click on the red label to open the full report.

Read more about the Gradebook in Canvas . 

2. Using Ouriginal outside Canvas with webinbox

In most cases it is most convenient for both students and teachers to use Ouriginal directly in Canvas as an addition to a Canvas assignment, since it creates a more uniform digital learning environment. There are a few exceptions, e.g. thesis courses, where it is reasonable for you as a teacher to use Ouriginal as a stand-alone outside of Canvas, using the Webinbox feature. 

To perform a plagiarism review of a document with the Ouriginal Webinbox, please follow the steps listed below:

  1. Log in to the Web Inbox via Ouriginals log in page  by choosing your institution, i.e. "Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan".
  2. Create a folder for your activity (e.g. the master/bachelor thesis). You create a folder via "+ create / upload" in the menu, and then "Create Folder".
  3. Open your newly created folder and upload the document to be checked for plagiarism. You upload the document via "+ create/upload" and then "Upload files". You can choose to upload one or multiple files.

The document is now sent to be checked for plagiarism. Once the plagiarism control is finished you can see the report by clicking on the document in Ouriginals Web Inbox and then choosing the "Open Report" button. 

Using Ouriginal outside Canvas with the analysis email address 

Instead of you as a teacher uploading the student's documents to Ouriginalm you can ask the students to send an email with the document as an attachment to your analysis address at Ouriginal (the email adress which ends with "analys.urkund.se"). You and find your analysis address in the top left corner after logging in to Ouriginal web inbox.

For more information, please refer to The Ouriginal Webinbox (pdf) .

Adjust the email settings for Ouriginal (both inside and outside Canvas) 

Since you can read the report from Ouriginal directly in Canvas, you do not need to receive an email from Ouriginal when the report is complete. If you do not want to receive an email for every report that Ouriginal creates, you need to adjust the email settings on Ouriginals old log in page , the new one does not have the email settings. 

If you choose not to receive emails and submit via Canvas, you can still read the report both via Canvas and via their website. Please note that the settings are applied both to submissions via the website and via Canvas. 

To change your Ouriginal email settings: 

  1. Go to Ouriginal's old login page  and log in with your KTH user.
  2. Make sure your email address ends in "@analys.urkund.se". If you have several e-mail addresses, you can click on the e-mail address and select the right one in the list that appears.
  3. Go to "settings". You will find the button on the same row as your email address. 
  4. Verify that the box "Send report by email" is not checked. 
  5. Click "update" to save your settings. 

After completing these steps, you will no longer receive an email for each report.

If yo not have an analysis address

If you do not have an analysis address in the list, try logging out and logging in again. 

If you still do not have an analysis address, it may be because you have not been registered as a teacher at Ouriginal. To get help with registration and creation of an analysis address, email it-support@kth.se  and describe your role and why you need access to Ouriginal.