[elearning] The Plagiarism Checker

[Mark KELLY]

If a student were so smart and willing to put in the effort to prevent
detection, they probably wouldn't need to be cheating in the first place :-)

On 23 April 2011 20:52, ken price <kenjprice at gmail.com> wrote:

> Nice idea Roland - thanks for this
>
> It appears to pass text to Google - not sure if or how it scopes its
> searches to focus on reports, essays etc.
>
> I guess a smart student would also use this tool, and modify their
> plagiarised work until it didn't register as plagiarised.
>
> kp
>
> Ken Price
> Coordinator Online Services
> Tasmanian eSchool
>
> On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Roland Gesthuizen <rgesthuizen at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>
>>  Check out the online plagiarism checker to analyse and report on student
>> submissions. Worked nicely when I used this with Moodle posts last year.
>> Just cut, paste and it sends back a report. :-)
>>
>> *Quotes:*
>>
>> The Plagiarism Checker <http://diigo.com/0gu40>
>>
>>    - To investigate possible plagiarism, click on any of the "possible
>>    plagiarism" links in the table below. You will be referred to the source
>>    material for you to make an informed decision about the content of your
>>    student's paper.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> This message was sent to you by Roland Gesthuizen<http://www.diigo.com/profile/rgesthuizen>via Diigo
>>
>>
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