Similarity report flagging the student's own work
Students submitted a Rough Draft of a Value of Life writing assignment last week, and a Final Draft last weekend.
I was checking the rough drafts today (which were submitted over a week ago) and now they are showing similarity to the students' own writing on the Final draft that was submitted within the last day or two.
I hope this can be used to bring back Revision assignments. My understanding is that if a student shows 99% similarity from rough draft to final draft, that student has not revised anything and should receive a zero on their final draft. Unfortunately the time stamp seems reversed, since many students are showing similarity on the rough draft submitted first, and not the final draft.
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I understand I can choose not to submit papers to the repository. However I like the function of being able to compare rough drafts to final drafts. If this similarity percentage were reversed, it would be very helpful in a revision assignment to show an extent of revision. For example 100% similarity would show ZERO revision, since it is the same writing.
