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 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.
Windows
Web-based
- Turn It In
- Measure Of Software Similarity (Moss)
- Paper Rater
- Plagiaserve
- eTBLAST 3.0 - a similarity-based search engine
Other Resources