Ouriginal: Ouriginal Staff Guide

Ouriginal (formerly known as URKUND) is used as part of an overall DBS strategy to enhance the institution’s academic integrity. To support this strategy, all DBS faculty are required to use Ouriginal. This guide provides instructions to faculty on how to facilitate the submission of student coursework via Ouriginal on Moodle.  As per the DBS Plagiarism Detection Policy, Ouriginal is also used as an educational tool. For this reason students are permitted to submit draft copies via Ouriginal before the due date. Once students submit the final version Lecturers will only receive the final version of the assignment.

For more tips and advice to students. You can consult the Ouriginal Plagiarism Handbook: http://static.urkund.com/manuals/URKUND_Plagiarism_Handbook_EN.pdf

Ouriginal Accounts

DBS will set you up with an Ouriginal account automatically. This will generate an individual Ouriginal email address. Please enter the Ouriginal email address that you receive into the Ouriginal Plugin on the module page on Moodle as outlined below. The Ouriginal email address that you receive will be in the following format:

http://[email protected]

Example: [email protected]

Please note that the Ouriginal email address is entered once into the Ouriginal plugin and remains your permanent Ouriginal email address. Do not change this email address. 

1. Click on SUBMISSION SETTINGS on ‘add new assignment’ ensure that ‘Require Students click submit button’ is YES

2. Click URKUND PLAGIARISM PLUGIN on the ‘add new assignment’ page to expand the section. Your Ouriginal email address is inserted in receiver address, select the options below. 

It usually takes about 24 hours for Ouriginal to generate a report, however at busy times this can take more than that. Please advise your students to allow plenty of time before the assignment deadline in order to receive the similarity report back and make any changes needed. Students will receive an email from Ouriginal (to the student email address) as soon as they submit. 

You will see the similarity of a submitted document as a % in a colour coded box in the ‘view/grade all submissions’ section of the assignment. Ouriginal uses a traffic light system. You can view the report by clicking the Ouriginal link.

Ouriginal Traffic Lights

Ouriginal uses a traffic light system when displaying matching similarity. Green and yellow indicate either little or no matched text. In   these circumstances matched text is very likely due to references, questions and cover sheets being the same. When the colours are orange, red or black, further investigation is recommended.

The source section illustrates sources that match the assignment. 

The section highlighted in orange shows a 100% match with text from the source mentioned on the right.