Managing plagiarism prevention
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- Managing plagiarism prevention
- 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 Administration > Site administration > Advanced features.
Plagiarism prevention plugins
An administrator then needs to install and configure one or more plagiarism prevention plugins in Administration > Site administration > Plugins > Plagiarism prevention > Plagiarism settings. Possible plugins include:
- Crot - Free open source tool. (works with MySQL only).
- Compilatio - Commercial tool requires subscription
- Moss - Free for non-commercial usage
- Programming - supports Moss and Jplag
- Turnitin - Commercial tool requires subscription
- URKUND - Commercial tool requires subscription
Other tools for managing plagiarism
- Acknowledge plagiarism statement access rule - A plugin by the Open University lets you require students to agree to a statement about not plagiarising before starting a quiz.
- Safe Exam Browser quiz access rule - Provides Safe Exam Browser 2.0 integration for Moodle.