How to detect plagiarism
From Iskomunidad
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 doesn't seem to reflect 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
Windows
Web-based
- Turn It In
- Measure Of Software Similarity (Moss)
- Paper Rater
- Plagiaserve
- eTBLAST 3.0 - a similarity-based search engine
Other Resources