The Settings & Preferences menu allows educators to manage the system-wide availability and configuration of features. The menu divides the features into these categories

• Originality Feature Configuration 
• Display Interface Settings 
• Access & Permission Settings. 

Each category contains related settings that allow administrators to configure features, tailor the platform’s interface, and manage access permissions across the institution.

1. This category of settings provides options related to originality checking features.

   Please note that Translation Similarity and AI Prediction are paid add-on features and will only be available to customers who have purchased them. Additionally, the Student Precheck feature becomes available upon request.

   1. Translation Similarity

      Enable to check document submissions against sources in multiple other languages (up to 3 maximum). The 3 languages chosen by the administrator serve as the default languages but can be overridden/changed by the educator during assignment setup. 

      

   2. Enable AI Prediction 

      Enable to check document submissions for content potentially generated by artificial intelligence. When enabled, educators can choose whether or not they want to include AI prediction in their assignment during assignment setup. 

      

   3. Contextual Similarity 

      Enable to check sentences in the submitted document for potential similarity in overall idea and message to sentences from the matching source and not limit the checking purely on structural similarity. You can also configure the contextual similarity threshold to define the percentage at which a sentence is considered contextually similar to a sentence in the matching source.  

      

   4.  Metadata Analysis 

      Enable to check document submission metadata for potential issues such as conflicting information with the aim of providing insights on potential contract cheating. 

      

   5.  Similarity Thresholds

      Configure the percentage at which similarity classifications, namely, Exact Match and Possibly altered text apply at the sentence level. This affects the way sentences in submitted documents are highlighted. 

      

2. This category of settings provides options related to managing how originality scores are displayed across the user interface and in the originality report. 

   1. Originality Scores in the Originality Report 

      Configure to determine how Originality scores appear across the user interface. There are two available options. 

      • Percentage - Displays analyses originality scores in the Originality Report as percentages
      • Risk Label - Displays analyses originality scores in the Originality Report as risk labels (High, Medium, or Low Risk)

      • None - Hides analyses originality scores from the Originality Report entirely to provide an unbiased evaluation experience. 

        

   2. Originality Scores in User Interface 

      Configure to determine how Originality scores appear across the user interface. There are two available options. 

      • Percentage - Displays originality scores across the user interface as percentages.

      • Risk Label - Displays originality scores across the user interface as risk labels (High, Medium, or Low Risk). 

        

   3. Threshold Configuration

      Classifications are directly tied to a document's originality score. Administrators can define the percentage threshold at which these classifications take place.  

      Example Configuration --> 

      • Display documents with originality score between 0-20% as Low Risk/Green Indicator
      • Display documents with originality score between 20-60% as Medium Risk/Yellow Indicator
      • Display documents with originality score between 60-100% as High Risk/Red Indicator 

      Administrators can configure percentage thresholds as needed. For example, they can configure low risk to range from 0-33%, medium risk to range from 33-70%, high risk to range from 70-100%. This offers flexibility to tailor how documents are classified according to specific requirements. 

      

3. This category of settings provides options in relation to access and permissions on the platform.

   1. Educator User Management Permissions

      Enable to allows educator users to create and add new student users to the platform. 

      

   2. Submission Pre-check 

      Enable to allow student users to upload documents on-demand for pre-checking purposes. Student pre-check documents are not part of regular submission processes and remain accessible only to the student who uploaded them. 

      

   3. Archive Documents 

      Define whether submissions are archived and stored in the institution’s internal repository, which is used to check for potential collusion by comparing submissions against one another over time. 

      

   4. Content Access 

      Define the level of access that other institutions using Inspera Originality have to your institution's internal repository of archived submissions. This feature is used for cross-institutional repository sharing, allowing institutions to check their documents against those from your institution, if permitted. Access level options include closed, open, and restricted. 

      To illustrate each option, Institution A and Institution B are used in the examples below, where Institution A sets the content access level for Institution B.

      Institution A has set content access to "Closed".   As a result, documents from Institution B are not checked for potential similarity against documents from Institution A. Institution A has set content access to "Restricted".   As a result, documents from Institution B are checked for potential similarity against documents from Institution A.  If similarity is found between two documents, the document from Institution A will be listed as a matching source in the Originality Report of the document from Institution B. Access to the document from Institution A requires an official request and access is granted upon approval. The request is logged, allowing the administrator at Institution A to accept or reject the document access request as needed.  Institution A has set content access to "Open".   As a result, documents from Institution B are checked for potential similarity against documents from Institution A.  If similarity is found between two documents, the document from Institution A will be listed as a matching source in the Originality Report of the document from Institution B. Access to the document from Institution A is available immediately.

      Inspera Originality offers different options to specify content access. Institution administrators can define the level of content access either for all institutions at once or individually for specific institutions. Setting the content access level for all institutions at once applies the same access level universally, while defining it for specific institutions allows setting a different content access level for each one.

      Institutions that are part of a larger educational framework are grouped in an expandable list. The administrator can define the level of content access either for all institutions in the list at once or individually for specific institutions. 

      

      The toggle at the end of this section allows administrators to control whether other institutions can download files in cases of cross-institution collusion. 

      When enabled, users from other institutions can download the file when cross-institution student collusion is detected. When disabled, the file cannot be downloaded by other institutions. 

      Toggling this on will trigger another confirmation modal, so it is not mistakenly enabled

      

      

   5. Personal Identifiable Information (PII)

      Enables selecting specific types of information not to be stored from submitted documents for additional privacy and protection of private data. This feature is particularly useful when two institutions engage in cross-institutional repository sharing, ensuring that sensitive information within student submissions is concealed. 

      

      The following options are available for exclusion:

      • Person (first name, last name, full name)
      • Email addresses
      • IP addresses (IPv4 and IPv6)
      • Geolocation (Country, city, street names, ZIP codes)
      • Credit card numbers
      • International Bank Account Numbers (IBAN)
      • National ID numbers (e.g., passport, driver’s license)
      • US Social Security Numbers (SSNs)
      • Dates and timestamps (e.g., date of birth)
      • URLs (web addresses)
      • Medical license numbers

4. At the bottom of the page, administrators will find the “Reset to Default” button. This allows them to restore selected settings to the default values defined by Inspera Originality. This can be useful when administrators want to start over or revert previous changes during setup.

   The “Reset to Default” button only affects the following settings:

   1. Contextual similarity threshold 
   2. Exact match and altered text 

   3. Risk classification scores