CheckMyWork compares your submitted work to the content found in billions of pages on the Internet and other student's papers. Your submitted work is assigned a percentage score that reflects the percent of the work that matches other people's work. The CheckMyWork similarity 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 you or someone else attempts to (re)submit your work after it has been submitted it will be flagged as possibly plagiarized. Please ensure you are the only user submitting your work to avoid plagiarism flagging.
Access CheckMyWork
The CheckMyWork submission page should always be accessed through the Main Menu in the platform and not a copied link to ensure proper user access.
- From your Pearson Connexus Home Page, expand the Main Menu and select CheckMyWork.
- The Submit to CheckMyWork page displays. Making a submission on this page will check to make sure you are using your own work and properly quoting and citing others work when applicable.
Submitting Your Work
- Complete your assignment work, then access the CheckMyWork page.
- Select the Review button to review and accept the End-User License Agreement. This option only appears the first time you submit your work through CheckMyWork or when the license agreement is updated. Please note that if you do not accept this agreement, you will not be able to use CheckMyWork. For more information, review this video on CheckMyWork End User License Agreement Acceptance.
- Enter text in the required fields.
Fields include:
- Course: use the drop-down list to select the course associated with the work you are submitting
- Title: enter the title of the work you are submitting
- My Work: submit your work one of two ways: pasting or uploading
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- Enter Text: Allows you to type or paste your work in the text box. The text must contain a minimum of 20 words.; Entries not containing the minimum number of words will result in an error when submitting your assignment.
- NOTE: If you are using a Chromebook, it is best practice to use Enter text to submit your work.
- Upload: allows you to upload your work by selecting a file
- select the Choose File button to locate the file on your computer
• only one file can be submitted at a time
• file must be less than 100 MB in size
• there is a limit of 800 pages or 2MB of raw text
• the following file formats are accepted: .pdf, .doc, .ppt, .pps, .xls, .docx, .pptx, .xlsx, .ps, .rtf, .htm, .html, .wpd, .odt, .txt, .hwp, .hwpx.
- select the Choose File button to locate the file on your computer
- Enter Text: Allows you to type or paste your work in the text box. The text must contain a minimum of 20 words.; Entries not containing the minimum number of words will result in an error when submitting your assignment.
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Submission Limit: You have a limited number of submissions per course. The number of submissions you have left for a course will populate when a course is selected from the drop-down menu. Submission attempts reset each day. Contact your teacher if you have questions or need more attempts to upload your work.
- Ensure all field are complete and select the Check My Work button at the bottom of the page.
- When processing is complete, a confirmation message displays along with a link to the CheckMyWork similarity report.
Note: If you receive an error message indicating that the submission failed, ensure that the size of the file meets the requirements (no larger than 100 MB, contains at least 20 words, and does not exceed the limit of 800 pages or 2 MB of raw text).
The report results may take from several seconds to several minutes to generate depending on the volume of words and size of the file. Even though the link appears, you may still be taken to the Generating Report page before you can view the report.
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.
- Select the link to open the report in a new window.
Reviewing the Similarity Report
The Similarity Report generates a percentage score that reflects the percentage of the work that matches other people's work.
- The Similarity Report for your submitted work will be displayed.
- Select Submission Details to view details regarding your submission such as word count, page count, and file size.
- The report shows your submitted work along with important information. A similarity 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, and websites.
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- 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 that your work has been most likely taken from other sources.
- The Match Groups view divides the overall similarity into four categories based on the usage of in-text citation and quotation marks. Viewing instances of similarity based on these categories can help you more easily identify where proper formatting has been used or may need to be added.
- The sources panel shows a list of sources with content that matches some portion of your submitted work.
- From Match Groups or Sources, you can use the number and color identifiers to easily link the highlighted source in the source panel to the text in the document.
- Sometimes there are multiple instances of text matching the same source. Selecting a source will display each of its associated matches within the sources side panel. You can freely navigate through them using the forward and back arrows; however, if there is only one match linked to a source, the arrows will be disabled.
Please be sure to cite and reference quoted work as directed by your teacher. If you would like to revise your work to update or remove any content noted in the report, you must resubmit it on the CheckMyWork page. You will receive a new link to an updated Similarity Report. Review the new similarity report. Note: It is likely your work will match with your initial submission which may increase your similarity score.
Sending the Similarity Report to Your Teacher
Once you are happy with the results of the similarity report, copy and paste the Similarity Report URL into the final version of your work before submitting it to your teacher. The similarity report you include in your submitted work must be associated with the work you submit for the assessment. The Similarity Report URL can be copied from the CheckMyWork submission page or the address bar of the report.
Important: Copy and paste the Similarity Report URL into a safe location prior to closing out the report window. Once this window is closed, the URL cannot be retrieved and the similarity report must be ran again. If the same item is resubmitted to CheckMyWork, it will show as plagiarized against the first submission. Check with your teacher on where the link should be pasted so they can easily access it when grading the assignment.
- Select the link for a detailed overview of the Similarity Report experience. The link will open in the Turnitin Help Center.
- For more information, view this video on CheckMyWork: The Student Perspective.