How to detect plagiarism

Before using certain tools, know the substantive issues in plagiarism. There are potentials for misuse or abuse of these tools.

Signs of an Intellectually Dishonest Work

• differences in writing style and vocabulary between earlier work by the student and the recently submitted assignment
• amount and complexity of output doen't seem to reflect the time limitation

Tools to detect plagiarism

On UVLe

• Use Crot Tool for Plagiarism Detection. It helps teachers detect plagiarized materials that students might have submitted. In your course page, use this feature under "Add an activity" | "Upload a single file"
  

     The setup should yield something like this

     This output is accessible under the option to view submitted assignments on your UVLe course page. If you click on the highlighted percentages, the sources of similarities are revealed like this

     Whenever possible, request plain text (.txt) submission or .doc file rather than .docx to get more reliable search results.

Windows

• Viper
• Safe Exam Browser
• Pl@giarism

Web-based

• Turn It In
• Measure Of Software Similarity (Moss)
• Paper Rater
• Plagiaserve
• eTBLAST 3.0 - a similarity-based search engine

Other Resources

• Plagiarism dot Org
• Plagiarism Resource Site

See Also

• Busting plagiarism