This article is for Google Workspace administrators.
If you have a Google Workspace for Education Plus account or the Teaching and Learning upgrade, you can let teachers check student files against other student submissions at the same school when they run originality reports.
Step 1: Turn on school matches
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Sign in to your Google Admin console.
Sign in using your administrator account (does not end in @gmail.com).
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From the Admin console Home page, go to Apps
Google Workspace
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(Optional) To apply the setting only to some users, at the side, select an organizational unit (often used for departments) or configuration group (advanced). Show me how
Group settings override organizational units. Learn more
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Click Originality Reports
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Click Save. Or, you might click Override for an organizational unit.
To later restore the inherited value, click Inherit (or Unset for a group).
Step 2: Set up shared drives
For originality reports, you must set up shared drives to store student’s past submissions.
- Go to the Google Assignments page.
- You may be prompted to set up school matches and enable shared drive. To do so, click Set up school matches.
Enable shared drive during setup::
- Creates a configuration group named "Originality Drive Policy Group" for the service account
- Changes the group setting to allow the creation of shared drives for school matches, but leaves other users unaffected
- Changes group settings so teachers can view school matches for the entire school
- Automatically adds new student submissions to the shared drive repository for future scans
In order to ensure school matches works effectively:
- Do not delete the configuration group named "Originality Drive Policy Group."
- Do not delete the shared drive named "Originality corpus."
Step 3: Check Vault retention policies (Optional)
If you use Google Vault, you can decide how long student Google Drive files are retained. For details, go to Retain files in Drive with Vault.