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.
Please log a ticket with IT through ServiceDesk if you have any issues with Ouriginal.
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 plug-in on the Moodle page as outlined below.
The Ouriginal email address that you receive will be in the following format:
firstname.surname.dbs@analysis.urkund.com
Please note that the Ouriginal email address is entered once into the Ouriginal plug-in and remains your permanent Ouriginal email address. Do not change this email address.
The Learning Unit have provided a guide for setting up your account. It can be viewed on Moodle or through the link below.
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 on the Ouriginal link.
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.
Please note that the traffic light system only indicates if text is matching another source. It cannot determine if referencing, quotation or assignment templates are correct, so the percentage of a report might be high but academic judgement is always required on your behalf - no case of suspect impropriety will be reviewed if it's based entirely on a higher percentage score without a lecturer verifying that those matches cannot be accounted for.
Note
It usually takes 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 their student email as soon as they submit.
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. The sections highlighted in blue show text that is in inverted commas, indicating a quotation.