[elearning] The Plagiarism Checker

[Roland Gesthuizen]

Reminds me of this great post, it describes how all artists steal from each
other (show this to your students)

http://www.austinkleon.com/2011/03/30/how-to-steal-like-an-artist-and-9-other-things-nobody-told-me

Or this admission that you can get some great stuff, just going through
rubbish bins (show this to your programming students)
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2000/06/29/bill_gates_roots

I have to agree with Mark, with that amount of checking .. they are probably
synthesising a new idea or have figured out that it is easier to just
contribute something original. It is tough, I had a go with Wikipedia and it
seems to nail down even portions of paragraphs.

Regards Roland

On 24 April 2011 12:28, Mark KELLY <kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au> wrote:

> 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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