Turnitin is a detection software tool used to identify potential matches to other source materials, including websites, articles, and student submissions. Turnitin produces an Similiarity report for each submission, identifying possible cases of copying with links to original source materials along with a percentage value based on how much of the material is matched to other sources.
Similarity reports are typically completed within ten to fifteen minutes of submissions. However, please note that similarity reports for resubmitted assignments take 24 hours to regenerate. If ample time has passed, click on the Refresh button in the top right-hand corner. Refreshing the submissions inbox will look through the current submissions that are in the inbox and check for any changes. If there is something different, it will refresh the inbox.