网曝门 now licenses iThenticate, a text-matching tool from Turnitin, for faculty and staff use. iThenticate replaces SafeAssign, which was part of Blackboard and is no longer available to us. This page will get you signed in and running your first document. A full training session is scheduled for September, and this page will be expanded after that.
| Signing In | How It Differs from SafeAssign |
| Uploading a Document | Reading the Report |
| Similarity Is Not Plagiarism | Training & Support |
LIVE TRAINING FOR 网曝门 FACULTY AND STAFF
Monday, September 8 · 12:30 p.m. · Zoom
Led by Turnitin. No registration required. You do not need to wait for the training to begin using the tool.
Signing In
- Go to .
- Choose the Google single sign-on option.
- Sign in with your 网曝门 institutional credentials. There is no separate iThenticate password to create or remember.
- Select Launch to open the tool. From that point forward you will land in My Files.
Trouble signing in?
Accounts are provisioned individually. If the sign-in page does not recognize you, email the Graduate School and we will get you added.
How iThenticate Differs from SafeAssign
This is the most important thing to understand up front. iThenticate is not a drop-in replacement for SafeAssign, and it does not work the way you are used to. The biggest change is that it lives outside the learning management system and does not run on its own.
| SafeAssign (Blackboard) | iThenticate (now) | |
|---|---|---|
| Where you find it | Built into Blackboard assignments | A separate website. It is not integrated with Brightspace and will not appear there. |
| Who submits the work | The student, when turning in the assignment | You do. You save the file and upload it yourself. |
| When it runs | Automatically on every submission | Only when you choose to run it. Think of it as a tool you reach for, not a net that catches everything. |
| What students see | Students could sometimes view their own report | Nothing. Students have no access and no view of results. |
| What it compares against | The open web plus an institutional database of past submissions | Billions of current and archived web pages, thousands of periodicals and journals, and works previously submitted to Turnitin. |
| Past 网曝门 student work | Accumulated automatically, semester over semester | Does not carry over. Prior Blackboard submissions are not in this system. |
| AI writing detection | Not offered | Available from the vendor, but not licensed by 网曝门. iThenticate will not flag AI-generated text. |
If you are trying to catch recycled work from a previous semester
A standard similarity check will probably not help you. Work submitted to a 网曝门 course in an earlier term is not in the iThenticate database unless someone uploaded and indexed it there. For that situation, use the doc-to-doc comparison feature instead, which lets you compare one submission directly against up to five documents you supply. If you have the earlier paper in hand, this is the right tool.
If you suspect generative AI use
iThenticate is not the tool for this, and no currently available AI detector is reliable enough to support an academic integrity finding on its own. A more productive approach is a short conversation with the student, in person or on Zoom, asking them to walk through their reasoning and elaborate on specific choices in the work. That tends to clarify authorship faster than any checker. CETAL can help you think through how to structure that conversation.
Uploading a Document
- Sign in and select Launch, or go to My Files if you are already in.
- Select the Upload button.
- Drag and drop your file into the upload area, or select Browse to find it. You can select more than one file at a time.
- Confirm or edit the file title. Author first and last name are optional; only the title is required.
- Select Upload and Submit. Watch the progress box at the bottom of the sidebar.
- When the upload finishes, select Open, or open the file from My Files. The report itself may take a few more minutes to generate.
Accepted file types
Word (DOC, DOCX), PDF, RTF, plain text, HTML, PowerPoint, Excel, OpenOffice, WordPerfect, HWP, and PostScript.
Size and length limits
Each file must be 100 MB or less, contain at least 20 words, and run no more than 800 pages. Total upload size caps at 200 MB.
A note on indexing and student privacy
Depending on how the account is configured, you may see a checkbox at upload asking whether to index your submission to the institutional repository. Indexing means the document becomes part of the comparison database for future checks. Please contact the Graduate School before indexing student work. As a general practice, name files in a way that does not expose more student information than necessary.
Reading the Similarity Report
The similarity score is simply the percentage of text in the document that matches something in the database. It is not a plagiarism score. Quoted material and properly formatted references will show as matches, and it is completely normal for a legitimate paper to register some similarity.
| Report color | Matching text |
|---|---|
| Green | 0% |
| Blue | 1 to 24% |
| Yellow | 25 to 49% |
| Orange | 50 to 74% |
| Red | 75 to 100% |
Inside the report you can open each match to see the source it came from, and you can apply exclusion filters to remove quotations, the bibliography, or small matches from the calculation. Filters are covered in the September training.
Similarity Is Not Plagiarism
The report highlights matching text. It does not determine intent, and it cannot tell you whether academic misconduct occurred. A high score may come from heavy but properly cited quotation. A low score does not rule out plagiarism, particularly when the work was written by someone else or produced by a generative AI tool. The judgment remains yours.
What to weigh alongside the score
Whether the work matches the student’s demonstrated skill level and previous writing, how well sources are integrated, whether citations follow the required format, and the student’s grasp of integrity expectations.
What inflates a score honestly
Length, since longer documents accumulate more matches. Genre also matters: research papers and literature reviews naturally score higher, while reflective and creative writing should not.
If you believe a violation has occurred
A Similarity Report is evidence you interpret, not a finding in itself. Follow the UCA Academic Integrity Policy for reporting and resolution, and keep a copy of the report for your documentation.
Training and Support
Live training is set for Monday, September 8 at 12:30 p.m. on Zoom. In the meantime, the vendor guides below cover everything on this page in more detail, and you are welcome to sign in and experiment on your own work first.
ⓘ This page is a starting point. It will be updated with 网曝门-specific guidance, screenshots, and recommended practices following the September training.
Questions about iThenticate? mmills@uca.edu
Dr. Michael S. Mills, Dean of the Graduate School · 501-450-5061