Unicheck Plagiarism Checker Plugin

Plagiarism ::: plagiarism_unicheck
Maintained by unicheckBen Larson, Aleksandr Kostylev
Designed based on educators’ feedback, Unicheck is a plagiarism detection engine helping educators spot plagiarism. To start using the app, please register at https://unicheck.com or get in touch with the sales team at sales@unicheck.com. It takes a few minutes to set-up your account and get the ball rolling. This plugin integrates with assignment, forum and workshop activities in Moodle to check user-submitted content for plagiarism.
Latest release:
220 sites
196 downloads
21 fans
Current versions available: 3

Please note: To use this plugin you must purchase a subscription from Unicheck plagiarism checker. Unicheck has been previously known as Unplag.

What you will find inside Unicheck service and Plugin

Remarkable User Experience

Start checking right away, no special setup is required

There’s a two step registration at Unicheck. Submit your request at unplag.com and have your corporate account validated within a few hours. Fund your account. Install the Unicheck plugin. Keep in touch with your customer manager to clarify all doubts or discuss further cooperation.

Numerous text file formats

Unicheck supports the most popular file formats: docx, doc, dotx, dot, xlsx, xls, csv, pptx, ppt, pdf, htm, html, xml, txt, rtf, odt, ods, odp, Apple Pages, ZIP, RAR, MATLAB files (.m).

Initial file formatting is retained

In plagiarism reports Unicheck keeps document formatting unchanged without transforming tables, graphs, citations, images, etc.

Easy-to-interpret scan results

Each unoriginal passage or sentence is highlighted. Thus, you will quickly find those text parts which need to be worked over by students repeatedly and which need proper referencing.

Similarity sources with spotted duplications

Once a similarity check is performed, you can view a full list of links to the sources where duplications were detected. Similarities are spotted on each original source. This way you will be able to notice even the smallest text fonts fast no matter how many pages the source has.

Similarity reports can be downloaded in .pdf

You can view similarity check results both online and offline. For the latter, you will just need to click the “Download Report” icon. As a result, you will get a .pdf report with links to the sources with spotted text matches. Based on the report, you can easily provide feedback to your students saying what exactly should be corrected.

Checks available in multiple languages

Currently Unicheck can scan for similarities in English, Spanish, German, French, Russian and Ukrainian. Should you need to scan student works in any other language, just let our help desk know and we will make it available for you.

Personal account manager

Every institution with a one/three-year Unicheck software license has a personal account manager. This is the person you can always rely on whatever questions you might have working with the Unicheck plagiarism detection engine.

Custom development

Since Unicheck is a software development company we can develop custom functionality for your university. For this contact our Sales team and inform them about the features or options you might require.

Comprehensive Plagiarism Check

Fast student papers’ checks

The fewer the number of pages in a student work is, the quicker it will be scanned for similarities by Unplag. Generally, you will receive check results right away. It will take from several seconds to a few minutes. Though a file size will influence the check speed, since Unicheck carefully analyzes each text to provide you with accurate results.

Scan against online sources in real time

To deliver precise check results, Unicheck scans against numerous web sources indexed by Yahoo and Bing in real time.

Providing only relevant check results

Scanning online in real time, Unicheck generates only actual check results. Should an online source be removed, blocked or outdated, it won’t appear in the list of sources where Unicheck found similarities.

Thorough text analysis

From now on Unicheck is able to detect even 4-word similarities. If you don’t need to have student papers analyzed so thoroughly, make use of the option available in each instructor’s account: omit the sources with a similarity percentage less than five.

Check against the library

This extra-useful feature allows instructors and account managers to run checks against the entire account library. It includes all the files uploaded by the account manager, instructors and students. Thanks to this you will be able to compare students’ originality rate across different subjects.

Instant and secure connection to your institution database

Check student writings against a vast academic papers database of your educational establishment. All the technical issues will be tackled by the IT specialists of your university together with Unicheck. As a rule, connecting our checker to your database will take from one day to two weeks.

Identifying citations and references

Unicheck automatically spots citations and references in the most commonly used formats: APA, MLA, Harvard, Chicago, and Turabian. All of them are highlighted and can be omitted from the plagiarism search and report. When excluded, similarity percentage is recalculated at once, so that you can receive more precise similarity rate.

Detecting character replacement

To pass a plagiarism check successfully some students may resort to substituting characters by the similar ones from other alphabets. Unicheck can spot these changes and show which letters were replaced and what sources were copied by cheaters.

Fair Policy

Free trial accounts

Unicheck enables educators to try out its plagiarism detection service for free before signing a license agreement or any other service contracts. We give you three weeks of the entire system trial to make your own judgments.

Disabling the “Sharing files” option

Unicheck doesn’t copy or store your files unless you would like to do it voluntarily. To do this, you need to activate the “Sharing files” option in your personal account settings.

Teacher/Department/Campus/Institution scalability

If your entire college or university is not ready to use Unicheck as the official plagiarism detection tool, you are free to start using it within one campus or department. It’s up to you what to choose.

Access to the new functionality by default

Whenever the Unicheck production team upgrades Unicheck functionality, all registered corporate clients will immediately get access to the updated features at no extra cost.

Quiz - Essay question support

The latest version of this plugin provides support for essay questions within the quiz activity, however Moodle doesn’t provide a way for you to view the score/report. To allow the report to be viewed you must add a patch to the core Moodle code-base. More information on this is in the Moodle TrackerMDL-32226 For a direct link to the patch required see: https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/dfe73fadfcf0bae603aa58707e48182a221eea5a

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Contributors

unicheck
Ben Larson (Lead maintainer)
Aleksandr Kostylev: Developers Team Lead
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  • Ivan Klymenko
    Wed, 22 Apr 2020, 3:43 PM
    @jolie Kulsar, Unicheck plugin can be used only with Institutional Unicheck account. (In such account, you should have an "integration" tab in your account with a Moodle icon on it). While you use an individual account, you may upload files in bulk using zip/rar to your Unicheck account and run a bulk check. Also, you can install Google Docs add-on and use Unicheck in the Google Document while working in it. Piloting Unicheck is free, so you may suggest a free test for your administrator.
  • Ivan Klymenko
    Wed, 22 Apr 2020, 3:43 PM
    @jolie Kulsar, Unicheck plugin can be used only with Institutional Unicheck account. (In such account, you should have an "integration" tab in your account with a Moodle icon on it). While you use an individual account, you may upload files in bulk using zip/rar to your Unicheck account and run a bulk check. Also, you can install Google Docs add-on and use Unicheck in the Google Document while working in it. Piloting Unicheck is free, so you may suggest a free test for your administrator.
  • Ivan Klymenko
    Wed, 22 Apr 2020, 3:44 PM
    @jolie Kulsar, Unicheck plugin can be used only with Institutional Unicheck account. (In such account, you should have an "integration" tab in your account with a Moodle icon on it). While you use an individual account, you may upload files in bulk using zip/rar to your Unicheck account and run a bulk check. Also, you can install Google Docs add-on and use Unicheck in the Google Document while working in it. Piloting Unicheck is free, so you may suggest a free test for your administrator.
  • Ivan Klymenko
    Wed, 22 Apr 2020, 3:44 PM
    @jolie Kulsar, Unicheck plugin can be used only with Institutional Unicheck account. (In such account, you should have an "integration" tab in your account with a Moodle icon on it). While you use an individual account, you may upload files in bulk using zip/rar to your Unicheck account and run a bulk check. Also, you can install Google Docs add-on and use Unicheck in the Google Document while working in it. Piloting Unicheck is free, so you may suggest a free test for your administrator.
  • Dmytro Yerebakan
    Wed, 12 Aug 2020, 5:05 PM
    Hello Jithu Thomas! Unicheck supports two types of the check through the Internet (web) and through the Institution Library (works collected through the submission once Unicheck has been activated). Unicheck has an option to import university existed Databases to improve the search. Unicheck provides their clients an option to decide, Unicheck Moodle Plugin contains a setting that allows you to switch through the Search types - Internet, Library, or Library + Internet.
    If you have a K-12 or Institution Unicheck account you will be able to find setup instruction into the Integration section. If you have personal or business account you will need to contact us. You can use contact form on the website or chat on the main Unichek website.
  • Fernando Oliveira
    Tue, 25 Aug 2020, 3:29 AM
    After upgrading to Moodle 3.9, this error now pops up "The setting plagiarism:unicheck_use is deprecated. Use plagiarism_unicheck:enabled" instead

    https://prnt.sc/u55fln

    Please advise. Thanks.

  • Sergio Comerón
    Fri, 11 Dec 2020, 6:50 PM
    Hi!
    The message to familiarize the students always appears. Also when the activity does not have unicheck activated. I think this behavior is not what is expected. If the activity does not have unicheck activated, this message should not appear.
    It appears even if the activity does not have the unicheck option activated from the administration.

    I've created an issue on your GitHub. (https://github.com/unicheck/moodle-plagiarism_unicheckcorp/issues/103)
  • Plumb kayre
    Fri, 5 Feb 2021, 4:25 PM
    Unicheck plugin can be used only with an Institutional Unicheck account. (In such an account, you should have an "integration" tab in your account with a Moodle icon on it). While you use an individual account, you may upload files in bulk using zip/rar to your Unicheck account and run a bulk check. Also, you can install the Google Docs add-on and use Unicheck in the Google Document while working on it. Piloting Unicheck is free, so you may suggest a free test for your administrator.
  • Fernando Oliveira
    Tue, 27 Apr 2021, 12:07 AM
    Anyone come across this error:

    Exception - Argument 1 passed to plagiarism_unicheck::is_archive() must be an instance of stored_file, bool given, called in [dirroot]/plagiarism/unicheck/classes/unicheck_core.class.php on line 125
  • javad kowsar
    Wed, 11 Aug 2021, 7:04 AM
    tnx
  • Kush Kal
    Sun, 12 Sep 2021, 2:14 AM
    Nice post, thank you for sharing ..
  • Fernando Oliveira
    Tue, 21 Sep 2021, 4:29 AM
    FYI: If your debugging page reports a "callback_url" error , you may be able to fix it by adding custom configuration to Apache to forward the needed O-Authorization headers

    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} ^(.*)
    RewriteRule .* - [e=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%1]
  • Jacklin Albert
    Tue, 6 Sep 2022, 5:42 PM
    I really like Unicheck Plagiarism Checker Plugin because they help me check the website content duplication. Also, this plugin is user friendly and easy to deduct duplicate content. I recommend my websitevalley.co.uk team and after use this plugin they are very happy.
  • Adelynn Stokes
    Thu, 25 May 2023, 11:22 AM
    Sometimes it takes me a long time to check for plagiarism in my essay.
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