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There are several reasons why a similarity percentage score and report might fail to not be generated. This could be due to with the Moodle assignment settings, the submitted file type, the acceptance of the End-User License Agreement (EULA) or potential Turnitin service disruption.

1. Moodle Assignment Settings- Report Generation Speed

Firstly, if a number of similarity reports have yet to be generated it is important to check the Moodle assignment settings to determine whether reports are set to generate on a particular due date or upon submission to the Moodle assignment activity. This is managed by the Turnitin plugin setting called ‘Report Generation Speed’.

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If the assignment has been set to generate reports immediately (students can resubmit until due date)

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, the similarity reports will be

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generated for every draft a student submits, overwriting each time. After the third submission there will be a delay of 24 hours between generation of reports.

If the assignment has been set to generate reports immediately on the due date (students can resubmit until due date), the Generate reports on due date (students can resubmit until due date): An originality report similarity reports will only be generated for the final file a student submits for an assignment and will become available once the assignment due date/time have passed.

2. Submitted File Type

If the assignment has been set to generate reports on the due date, Similarity Reports will only be available once the assignment due date and time have passed.

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Moodle assignment setting for the report generation speed appear to be correct with 24 hours having passed since the last submission or the due date/time having passed then the issue may be that an incompatible file type has been submitted particularly if only a limited number of similarity reports have yet to be generated.

Incompatible File Type

If any file type is allowed, Turnitin will not generate a Similarity Report for the following:

Password-protected files

Microsoft® Works (.wps) files

Microsoft Word 2007 macros-enabled .docm files

OpenOffice Text (.odt) files created and downloaded from Google Docs online

Document (.doc) files created using OpenOffice

Spreadsheets created outside of Microsoft Excel (i.e. .ods)

Apple Pages

Text with visual effects

Incompatible PDF Generator

To ensure PDF submissions can be read by Turnitin, the following PDF generators should notbe used:

LaTeX PDF generator

OpenOffice PDF generator

LibreOffice PDF generator

3. Accepting EULA

4. Turnitin Service Disruption

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