Turnitin is text matching software, which International College, KMUTNB provide for lecturers to check the submitted assignments, articles and others writing against its database and the content of other websites with the aim of identifying plagiarism.

To enhance the quality of our educations, International College, KMUTNB use this software to detect plagiarism of students’ assignments and help the instructors to determine whether students are doing their own work. Then, our students have to learn how to paraphrase the original work to their own sentences implicitly.

What do the Turnitin colors mean?

The colored square indicating the overall similarity of a paper will be one of these five basic colors: red, orange, yellow, green, or blue. Each color represents how much of your paper matches something already in the Turnitin database.

• If the colored square for your Originality Report is Red, this means that 75% – 100% of the text in your paper matches something already in the Turnitin database.
• If the colored square for your Originality Report is Orange, 50% – 74% of the text in your paper matches something already in the Turnitin database.
• If the colored square is Yellow 25% – 49% of your paper or assignment matches something already in the Turnitin database.
• A Green colored square means that 0% – 24% of your paper or assignment matches something already in the Turnitin database.
• And a Bluecolored square means that less than 20 words in your paper or assignment matches something already in the Turnitin database.

Source: http://www.umuc.edu/library/libhow/turnitinoriginality_tutorial.cfm