Things to consider when using the Microsoft Teams Similarity integration

Below are some things to consider when using the Microsoft Teams Similarity integration:

• Students can access the Similarity report immediately after hand-in by refreshing the pending report.
• Teams does not share student metadata with Turnitin, so it is not possible to identify a student user as the same across Turnitin account set-ups.
• All submissions made to a Microsoft Teams assignment with Similarity will be indexed in the student submission database. This means if a paper is then later submitted to Turnitin Feedback Studio, a match will be found to a paper already submitted at the same institution (as above, student name unknown).
• Instructors and students have access to the same report view with limited match information.
• Submissions are checked when they are submitted. This means that collusion checking does not occur across the assignment. New submissions are only checked against existing submissions.