CheckMyWork

CheckMyWork compares your submitted work to the content found in billions of pages of Internet archives, student papers, websites, journals, and publications. Your submitted work is assigned a percentage score that reflects the percent of the work that matches other people's work. The CheckMyWork originality report shows the results of the comparison.

Important: Once your document has been submitted to CheckMyWork, it is kept on file to check against other users’ submissions. If someone else submits your work from a different user account, that person will be notified that their work was plagiarized. If you attempt to resubmit your work after it has been submitted by another user, it will also be flagged as plagiarized. Please ensure you are the only user submitting your work to avoid plagiarism flagging.

Access CheckMyWork

1. From your Pearson Connexus Home Page, expand the Main Menu and select CheckMyWork.

2. The Submit to CheckMyWork page displays. This page will check to make sure you are not plagiarizing or inappropriately using another person's work.

Submit Your Work

3. Complete your work, then access the CheckMyWork page.
4. Fill out the form.

 Fields include:

• Course: use the dropdown list to select the section associated with the work you are submitting
• Title: enter the title of the work you are submitting using the text box
• My Work: submit your work one of two ways- pasting or uploading

• • Enter Text: allows you to type or paste your work in the text box
    • recommended word count is between 30 and 100,000 words; entries not within the specified range will be rejected
  • Upload: allows you to upload your work by selecting a file
    • select the Chose File to locate the file on your computer
      • only one file can be submitted at a time
      • file must be less than 20 MB in size
      • the following file formats are accepted: .txt, .rtf, .doc, .docx, .odt, .html, or, .pdf

5. When you are ready to submit your work, select the CheckMyWork button at the bottom of the page.
6. When processing is complete, a confirmation message displays along with a link to the CheckMyWork originality report.  

Allow at least 15 minutes for the Originality Report to be generated. Even though the link appears, the report may not yet be available. If you click the link before the report is ready, you may receive an error message.

Note: If you try to view the report and receive a message that says, "The Originality service is not available for this paper" please wait and try to view the report again. Do not resubmit the exact same work again.

7. Select the link to open the report in a new window.

Reviewing the Originality Report

The originality report generates a percentage score that reflects the percent of the work that matches other people's work. After you have submitted your work:

8. The originality report for your submitted work displays.   

9. The report shows your submitted work along with important information. A percentage score is assigned to your submitted work. This number reflects the percent of your work that matches content found in billions of pages of Internet archives, student papers, websites, journals, and publications. A score of 0% means your work does not match any other searched content. A score of 100% means that all of your work matches other people's work and and that your work has been most likely taken from other sources.
10. The Match Overview panel shows a list of sources with content that matches some portion of your submitted work.

Each listed source contains a percentage score that represents the percentage of your work matching content in the source. Select a source to jump to the portion of your work containing content that matches the source's content. Each source has a color. The matching content is highlighted in that color.

11. Select view source to view more information about the source. Select Compare to view your submission alongside the source that has content matching yours.
12. If you would like to revise your work to remove any content noted in the report, you must resubmit it on the CheckMyWork page. You will receive a new link to an updated Originality Report. Review the new originality report. When you are satisfied with your work, copy and paste the Originality Report URL into the final version of your work before submitting it to your teacher.

Sending the Originality Report to Your Teacher

Once you are happy with the results of the Originality report, copy and paste the Originality Report URL into the final version of your work before submitting it to your teacher. The originality report you include in your submitted work must be associated with the work you submit for the assessment.