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Plagiarism is when a student submits content they have copied and the real author was not given credit for the words.  Plagiarism prevention detects when this form of cheating or academic dishonesty has happened.


Moodle doesn't come with any pre-installed plagiarism prevention methods - they need to be added by a site administrator. See [[Managing plagiarism prevention]] for details.


Plagiarism prevention is a method used to prevent users from cheating and submitting content they have copied instead of writing it themselves.
==See also==
 
* [[Plagiarism prevention FAQ]]
==Enabling plagiarism prevention==
 
To make use of plagiarism prevention, the feature must be enabled by an administrator by checking the enable plagiarism plugins box in ''Site administration > [[Advanced features]]''.


==Plagiarism Prevention Plugins==
[[Category:Site administration]]
 
Plagiarism Prevention plugins currently include:
 
*[[Plagiarism Prevention Turnitin|Turnitin]] - Integration with the turnitin.com Plagiarism prevention tool
 
==See also==
* [[Development:Plagiarism API]]
* [[Turnitin|Turnitin Plugins for older Moodle versions]]
* [http://code.google.com/p/sunner-projects/wiki/AntiPlagiarismBlock Anti-Plagiarism Block] for Moodle 1.9 - Integration with the [http://theory.stanford.edu/~aiken/moss/ MOSS], an automatic system for determining the similarity of program

Latest revision as of 10:39, 12 October 2011

Plagiarism is when a student submits content they have copied and the real author was not given credit for the words. Plagiarism prevention detects when this form of cheating or academic dishonesty has happened.

Moodle doesn't come with any pre-installed plagiarism prevention methods - they need to be added by a site administrator. See Managing plagiarism prevention for details.

See also