If you Copy and Paste you Must Cite, Cite, Cite or Else it is Plagiarism

What plagiarism detection software is available to online instructors?
There is Turnitin.com which according to Jocoy & Dibiase (2006) is easy to use, it accepts papers in HTML format, and it allows for selected websites to be excluded from searches, a feature we needed so that the search did not simply match our students’ papers to their own postings of their papers in their e-portfolios, which were publicly available webpages (p.8).

Ledwith & Risquez (2008) in recorded this free software:  My Drop box, EVE, WcopyFind and WordCHECK.

 ELearning Industry listed 10 free plagiarism tools for teachers:

DupliChecker- Just copy-paste, or upload your essay, thesis, website content or articles and click search.

PaperRater- Paper Rater offers three tools: Grammar Checking, Plagiarism Detection and Writing suggestions.

Plagiarisma.net- Plagiarisma has a search box as well as a software download available forWindows.  Users can also search for entire URLs and files in HTML, DOC, DOCX. . .

PlagiarismChecker- Plagiarism Checker.com makes it simple for educators to check whether a student’s paper has been copied from the internet.
Plagium- Plagium is a free plagiarism detection tool.  It is easy to use.  All you have to do is paste in original portion of text (Max 250 characters).

Anti-Plagiarism- Anti-Plagiarism is software designed to effectively detect and thereby prevent plagiarism.  It is a versatile tool to deal with World Wild Web cop-pasting information from the assignment of authorship.

PlagTracker- Plagtracker is another online plagiarism detection services that checks whether similar text content appears elsewhere on the web.

Viper- Viper is a fast plagiarism detection tools with the abilityto scan your document through more than 10 billion resources, such as academic essays and other online sources. . .

SeaSources- SeaSources is an online, automatic and free plagiarism checker.  Choose MS Word in formats (.doc/docx) or HTML in the formats (.html) or text (.txt) or text document. . .

Plagiarism Detector- Plagiarism Detector is software especially designed keeping the growing content requirement over the internet in mind.  It is for teachers, students and website owners.  It scans the documents and detects plagiarism and provides an instant report.

How can the design of assessments help prevent academic dishonesty? 
I liked the idea that Dr. Pratt of Laureate Education Inc. 2010 allows his students to take assessments with open books and students have the ability to talk to each other to answer questions.  So I would most definitely design assessments that were less dependent on rote memorization and more based on how the students interpreted a study or article.

Another method suggested by Brown, Jordan, Rubin & Arome 2010 is to use authentic assessments, which involves the students in the learning process and reflection; another method is to create a unique assignment that is not available from the paper mills including specific requirements and changing those requirements each semester.  Within this same article they suggested that blogs, and wikis be used as a way to assess students also.

What facilitation strategies do you propose to use as a current or future online instructor?
I would like to use authentic assessments for courses that are non-science based.  I would have students to do group based projects, reflections and if I had to do an assessment outside of those ideas I would allow for students to use the internet, open books and any other resource they may have to answer the questions.

What additional considerations for online teaching should be made to help detect or prevent cheating and plagiarism?
The additional consideration that should be made is that as the instructor I have the responsibility to teach my students about what constitutes plagiarism.  I would inform them that copy and pasting parts or sentences from someone else’s work requires that the author of the work is cited in APA format, MLA or whatever happens to be the form of citation. 

I would also inform students that reusing work from a course previously taken is a form of plagiarism and that allowing another student or person to write your paper is plagiarism.  If the university or school that I am facilitating a course at requires a traditional multiple choice questions or short answer assessment then I would let students know that giving your answers to another student is plagiarism and cheating.

My last informative measure would be to have a document written that informs students about what plagiarism is and that it violates academic integrity.  The students would have to sign off on the sheet and electronically submit.

References

Brown, V., Jordan, R., Rubin, N., & Arome, G. (2010). Strengths and weaknesses of plagiarism detection software. Journal of Literacy and Technology, 11(1/2), 110-131.

Jocoy, C., & DiBiase, D. (2006). Plagiarism by adult learners online: A case study in detection and remediation. International Review of Research in Open & Distance Learning, 7(1), 1-15.

Laureate Education (Producer). (2010). Plagiarism and cheating [Video file]. Retrieved from https://class.waldenu.edu

Ledwith, A. & Risquez, A. (2008). Using anti-plagiarism software to promote academic honesty in the context of peer reviewed assignments.  Studies in Higher Education, 33(4), 371-384.

Pappas, C. (n. d.). Top 10 free plagiarism detection tools for teachers.

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