{"id":10052,"date":"2020-07-15T16:14:53","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T23:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/bcconnect\/?page_id=10052"},"modified":"2025-05-31T20:07:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T03:07:35","slug":"simcheck","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/elearningfaculty\/simcheck\/","title":{"rendered":"SimCheck (Turnitin)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>SimCheck (Turnitin) is the plagiarism detection software integrated into Canvas that checks your students submissions with sources available on the web, in our institutional repository, homework help sites, and books. SimCheck is available through Canvas for instructors to set up plagiarism review on an individual assignment basis, and for students to submit assignments for review.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>We recommend that Instructors planning to use this tool should inform students, add SimCheck to the Syllabus, and explain how it works before requiring its use on a particular assignment.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/guides.turnitin.com\/hc\/en-us\/categories\/21850416398221-Student-hub\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Turnitin Student Guide<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>This tool is optional for instructors and is not available outside of Canvas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-bc-dark-blue-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-9afdd625cc868b656c0f24ba42faca9f\">Guides for Instructors<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/help.turnitin.com\/integrity\/instructor\/canvas\/assignment-setup\/creating-an-assignment.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Create an Assignment<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/help.turnitin.com\/integrity\/instructor\/canvas\/assignment-setup\/setting-similarity-report-availability.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Release Similarity Report Options<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/help.turnitin.com\/integrity\/instructor\/canvas\/the-similarity-report\/accessing-the-similarity-report.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How to Access Similarity Report<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/help.turnitin.com\/integrity\/instructor\/canvas\/the-similarity-report\/interpreting-the-similarity-score.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How to Interpret the Report Score<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/help.turnitin.com\/integrity\/instructor\/canvas.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Full Documentation on how to use SimCheck<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/help.turnitin.com\/integrity\/instructor\/canvas.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Turnitin Guide for Faculty<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/guides.turnitin.com\/hc\/en-us\/categories\/21850416398221-Student-hub\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Turnitin Guide for Students<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-bc-dark-blue-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7cff0e8f9a91635de90ed8b6a9ad4fa2\">How to use SimCheck (Turnitin)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><b>We recommend that Faculty notify their students in advance <\/b>of using a plagiarism detection&nbsp;service.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Activate SimCheck when creating an Assignment. Choose <strong>Online<\/strong> as the <strong>Submission Type<\/strong>, then choose <strong>Text Entry<\/strong> and\/or <strong>File Uploads<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"709\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/182\/2020\/07\/SimCheck-1-1024x709.jpg\" alt=\"SimCheck settings-select Text Entry and File Uploads\" class=\"wp-image-10206 img-fluid \" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/182\/2020\/07\/SimCheck-1-1024x709.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/182\/2020\/07\/SimCheck-1-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/182\/2020\/07\/SimCheck-1-768x531.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/182\/2020\/07\/SimCheck-1.jpg 1341w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Once you make these selections, the <strong>Plagiarism Review<\/strong> options box will appear as seen below.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Choose which SimCheck options you want this assignment to use.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Draft Assignment: Index all submissions<\/strong> should not be checked if this is a <strong>draft assignment<\/strong> and they will turn it in again.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Final Assignment Submission:<\/strong> Except for the above &#8220;Draft Assignment&#8221; case, you would usually want to <strong>check Index All Submissions<\/strong> so that all papers submitted at our college can be checked against our other student&#8217;s papers.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We recommend using the settings seen in the image below.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading with-breadcrumbs\" id=\"title-text\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-10212 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/182\/2020\/07\/SimCheck-2-1-1024x821.jpg\" alt=\"SimCheck settings - Similarity Report\" width=\"1024\" height=\"821\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/182\/2020\/07\/SimCheck-2-1-1024x821.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/182\/2020\/07\/SimCheck-2-1-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/182\/2020\/07\/SimCheck-2-1-768x616.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/182\/2020\/07\/SimCheck-2-1.jpg 1395w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>You can select when you want the student to see the report. Your options are <strong>Immediately<\/strong>, <strong>After the assignment is graded<\/strong>, <strong>After the due date<\/strong> and <strong>Never<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"602\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/182\/2020\/07\/SimCheck-3-1.jpg\" alt=\"SimCheck settings - Student View\" class=\"wp-image-10215 img-fluid \" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/182\/2020\/07\/SimCheck-3-1.jpg 602w, https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/182\/2020\/07\/SimCheck-3-1-300x174.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-bc-dark-blue-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-2458d26daf9608f0ba5528549daaf626\"><strong>Faculty FAQs<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-bc-blue-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-bc57217bbc6fe25f135c27d68bababbe\">What databases does SimCheck access?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>SimCheck uses our institutional repository (copied from VeriCite) and the Turnitin internet database, sources available on the web, homework help sites, and books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-bc-blue-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-0bde993a548037b745b767304384a07c\">What types of files can students upload?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Students can upload the following documents:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Microsoft Word\u2122 (DOC and DOCX)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Microsoft PowerPoint\u2122 (PPT and PPTX)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>HTML<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Plain text (TXT)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rich Text Format (RTF)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>OpenOffice (ODF)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Zip files (ZIP) to submit multiple files at once; limit is 100 files OR 100MB<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Portable Document Format (PDF) NOTE: PDF documents must contain text to be submitted. PDF files containing only images of text will be rejected during the upload attempt.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-bc-blue-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-2fb6061d6f95385c4c404a4aeb843dd6\">Where do I get support?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Send a <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.bellevuecollege.edu\/requestcenter\/TaskSelection.aspx?CategoryID=496\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Request Center ticket<\/a> and we will assist you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-bc-dark-blue-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-38d1b1a00ee241571458ff80d18b3466\"><strong>For Students<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/guides.turnitin.com\/hc\/en-us\/categories\/21850416398221-Student-hub\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Using Turnitin with Canvas as a Student<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-bc-blue-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-8560bce2cdfff9a5723c537988510bce\">Student Agreement<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>When SimCheck is turned on for an assignment, students will be required to check a box confirming that their work is original before they can submit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-bc-blue-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-2a6c6805c4afc262acf505fe83d683a8\">Where do my students get support?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Student support is provided by ITS. An <a href=\"https:\/\/bellevuecollege.teamdynamix.com\/TDClient\/2044\/Portal\/Home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ITS ticket<\/a> will be required. A student can also <a href=\"https:\/\/bellevuecollege.teamdynamix.com\/TDClient\/2044\/Portal\/Home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">call the Service Desk<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SimCheck (Turnitin) is the plagiarism detection software integrated into Canvas that checks your students submissions with sources available on the web, in our institutional repository, homework help sites, and books. 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