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
Important: Turn on school matches only for teachers in your school.
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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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In the Admin console, go to Menu
Apps
Additional Google services
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On the left, select the teachers' organisational unit. Or, you can leave the top-level organisational unit selected if you verify teachers.
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Click Originality reports
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Click Save. Or you might click Override for an organisational unit.
To later restore the inherited value, click Inherit.
Step 2: Set up shared drives
For originality reports, you must set up shared drives to store students' past submissions.
- Go to the Google Classroom page.
- You may be prompted to set up school matches and enable shared drive. To do so, click Set up school matches.
Enabling shared drive during set-up:
- 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 that 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 that 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.