Run an originality report on your work

If your teacher turns on originality reports for an assignment, you can use the reports to identify uncited content and unintentional plagiarism before you hand in your work. The reports compare your Google Docs, Google Slides and Microsoft Word files to webpages and books on the Internet.

• Your teacher can't find the reports that you run.
• After you've handed in your work, Classroom automatically runs a report that only your teacher can find.
• If you unsubmit and resubmit a file, Classroom will run another originality report for the teacher.
• If your administrator has enabled school matches, your teacher's report will also check against previous student submissions from your school or district.
• Your work is copied to the school matches corpus, so that it can be compared to other students' work, if all of the following is true:
  • School matches are enabled for the domain.
  • Originality reports are enabled for the assignment.
  • The file type is supported.
  Available languages

  Originality reports are only available for Google Workspace for Education accounts that are set to:

  • Arabic
  • Chinese (Simplified)
  • Chinese (Traditional)
  • Danish
  • Dutch
  • English
  • Filipino
  • Finnish
  • French
  • German
  • Hebrew
  • Hindi
  • Indonesian
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Malay
  • Norwegian
  • Polish
  • Portuguese
  • Romanian
  • Spanish
  • Swedish
  • Thai
  • Ukrainian

  Run an originality report

  If your teacher has turned on originality reports for an assignment, you can run up to three reports on your work.

  1. On a computer, go to classroom.google.com.
  2. Click the classClasswork.

  3. Click the assignmentView instructions.

  4. Under Your work, upload or create your file.
  5. Next to Originality reports, click Run.
     Note: If you can't find Originality reports, your teacher might not have turned it on.
  6. Under the file name, click View originality report to find the report.
  7. (Optional) To save or print your originality report, at the top, click Print and choose an option:
     • Save as PDF
     • Save to your Google Drive
     • Print the report

  Tip: In order to create an originality report, documents must not exceed a file size of 2 MB.

  Related topics

  • Originality reports and privacy
  • How an originality report is created
  • Read an originality report on your work