What is Ouriginal?

Ouriginal (formerly known as Urkund) is a text-recognition tool, accessible from within Brightspace, which can be used to detect possible plagiarism within a piece of writing.

How does it work?

When lecturers create an assignment in Brightspace, they can specify whether your submissions are analysed by Ouriginal.

If they do, the text of your submission is analysed and checked with potential matching sources from academically published material, the Internet, and previously submitted student documents. 

When a document displays similarities to other sources a matching profile is created. The degree of the matches is recorded and any usages of paraphrasing and synonyms are also taken into account. A report is generated, which is made available to your lecturer via Brightspace.

When your lecturer marks and feeds back on your work, you will also be able to access the Ouriginal report.

There are many forms that an assignment could take - however, when it comes to whether or not Ouriginal has been enabled, there will be no difference in what you see when submitting. 

To view and submit an assignment, select Assignments from the Course Tools menu (shown opposite).

Once you have clicked on an assignment you will see buttons to Add a File, Record Audio or Video, or Choose a file you have already uploaded to Brightspace.

Once you  have uploaded a file you will see it listed on screen (beside a little document icon). At this point you will notice there is also a space to add comments.

Add any appropriate comments, then click Submit.