Hidden text
I can't see anything in the user manual to explain Hidden Text which is one of the new features of the beta version. I have Googled and investigated but I can't see any 'hidden text' in the document but the report tells me there is. Can anyone enlighten me?
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Hi Aysen We launching our new Originality product shortly and are in the process of updating much of our guidance. Please take a look at this page to see if this helps you any. Please bear with us as we are transitioning products and guidance.
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Gill Rowell Thank you for replying so promptly. I am investigating two submissions, one supposedly has 9 hidden characters and the other 13. The page you directed me to shows highlighting around replaced characters. Is this how I am supposed to identify the 'hidden characters' which I can't seem to do with the submissions I am investigating. No example of 'hidden characters' is given in the current guidance.
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Aysen I am following this up with the product owners for you. Hidden Text (white text on a white background) should display as red text surrounded by a red box, similar to the character replacement example.
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Michael Ryan Hi Michael, I have noticed that with some page numbering in the header, it could be a template style. In this particular instance, it turned out there was a date embedded in the cover page, which is odd. The new Turnitin in Moodle is now displaying hidden text. Appears the change happened overnight or yesterday.
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Aysen Yes, Document Flags is a new feature that has been added to Feedback Studio overnight - this will surface hidden text and character replacement to instructors using Feedback Studio.
I believe this is also intended to display when you open a submission from within an Authorship report, so I am following up on this for you - you should not need to open the paper in Feedback Studio to see the hidden text when flagged in Authorship, although it will work as a workaround in the meantime. -
Aysen you should now be able to see the Document Flags (hidden text and character replacement) in the document viewer when accessed via Authorship. The red highlights will show on the screen when you click Hidden Text or Replaced Characters
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Michael Ryan I am having a problem whereby I cannot see the characters as depicted above. Apparently a document has 900+ hidden characters but none are showing as red boxes in the document viewer.
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I have downloaded and selected all text and made it black but I don't see any new characters revealed.
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Sheona Thomson I will reach out to you directly via email - it may help to share the file or report URL with us so the engineering team can take a look and provide an answer (and we don't want to share the file/URL on this forum!)
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Sheona Thomson Hi Sheona, have you tried looking at it in Turnitin rather than than the Turnitin Authorship report? That's the only way I can get it to work correctly.
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