Managing plagiarism prevention

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:

Fully supported plugins

These are plugins that support plagiarism detection within the Moodle Assignment, Workshop and Forum activities.

• Compilatio - Commercial tool requires paid subscription
• Turnitin - Commercial tool requires paid subscription
• Ouriginal - Previously called Urkund - Commercial tool requires paid subscription
• Unicheck - Commercial tool requires paid subscription

Partially supported plugins

These are plugins that currently only support the Moodle Assignment activity.

• CopyCheck - Commercial tool requires paid subscription
• PLAGIARISMA - Commercial tool requires paid subscription
• PlagScan - Commercial tool requires paid subscription
• Vericite - Commercial tool requires paid 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.
• Essay (auto-grade) question type - An additional essay question type that can use a glossary of common errors to detect plagiarized phrases.