Dear Community,
I have been asked to reach out to see if there are any plugins that a student can use to detect Plagiarism in Moodle forums. I believe this would be a big help.
Doug
Turnitin certainly does... obviously, it costs money.
does this software check against the other post in a forum? I think what we are looking for is the ability for the students to make sure when they post something to the forum that it is not close to other students. Not sure if this can be done.
It should do as previous posts will be stored in the repository.
I don't use Turnitin. From what I have heard the strength of the 'big' is the amount of the catalogue they check against. Turnitin is a) closed source b) a service. Not only they scrape the web and store everything they find, they in a special position that their customers entrust them work which is never intended for the web. That is a huge, not ethical, advantage they have. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turnitin.
Talking of ethics, it reminded me the Christmas news: https://news.slashdot.org/story/20/12/24/204238/nyc-is-paying-2-million-for-anti-plagiarism-software-after-firing-teachers.
Talking of ethics, it reminded me the Christmas news: https://news.slashdot.org/story/20/12/24/204238/nyc-is-paying-2-million-for-anti-plagiarism-software-after-firing-teachers.
Fortunately, there's more to plagiarism checkers than just TurnItIn: there are a few more around, like OUriginal (previously URKUND) or Unicheck. From what I've heard, OUriginal has another approach to scanning and reporting, in the sense that they don't store scanned and analysed content. AFAIK OUriginal / URKUND is the only tool that also allows scanning forum posts and workshop contributions.
Essentially: all these services will have their price, so be sure to check which tool works best for you.
Essentially: all these services will have their price, so be sure to check which tool works best for you.
Just to clarify - Turnitin, Ouriginal (Urkund), Compilatio, Strike, Unicheck (unplag) all support the core Assignment, Workshop, Forum activities and possibly some of the other plugins also support them.
Turnitin, Ouriginal and Unicheck have just added support for Quiz essay questions in 3.11 and higher too. (older Moodle releases are also supported with a patch.)
Turnitin, Ouriginal and Unicheck have just added support for Quiz essay questions in 3.11 and higher too. (older Moodle releases are also supported with a patch.)