Frequently Asked Questions

Q: What is a similarity report?

A: It is detailed information on checked documents. Unicheck provides it upon completion of each check. The report highlights text matches and cited sentences, making it easier for you to see the whole picture. It also shows originality and similarity score, list of original sources, and more.

Q: How accurate are the similarity checks?

A: Unicheck uses live web index to check your files against billions of web pages and more than 3000 open access sources. To ensure you get accurate search results, it checks the relevance of each source before including it in the report.

Q: How do I resubmit?

A: Resubmissions are not allowed by default. If you need to make a resubmission, ask your instructor to unlock the Assignment.

Q: What types of files can I check?

A: Good news! Unicheck supports almost all text file formats like .doc, .docx, .rtf, .txt, .odt, .ppt, .pptx, .html, .pdf, .pages, .gdoc, and zip archives. For now .jpg and .png are not supported, but these types of files are rarely used for writing papers anyway.

Q: How fast will Unicheck scan my file?

A: It takes about 4 seconds or less to scan one page. Please note that larger files will take a longer time to check. The checking speed also depends on the number of sources where similarities have been found.

Q: Will cited material be identified by Unicheck as a plagiarism?

A: No. Unicheck identified properly cited material and does not mark it as a similarity. If the instructor has allowed students to see a similarity score/report, a student can open the report and review the material, which was identified as citations (marked in blue colour).

Q: Can I view the final plagiarism report?

A: If the instructor has made similarity results visible, then a student can view plagiarism report for his/her submissions (it might take a minute or so to generate the report).

Q: How do I interpret a similarity report?

A: It’s simple. Each report shows potential plagiarism highlighted in yellow, citations in blue, and references in purple. To view the list with links to matching sources, click the “Detailed report” button. Switch between tabs to view matching web or Library sources, or citations and references.