[LON-CAPA-users] Plagiarism Checking

[Stuart Raeburn]

Hi Doug,

> "If submitted plain text, can do plagiarism checker against all   
> other submissions to that same problem (regardless of course,   
> institution, etc.)"
>
> But I don't know if that accurately describes the state today.

It does (for published resources containing essayresponse items).

> Somewhere else I saw an indication that this works only in essay   
> response questions, not, for example, in uploaded Word documents.    
> Thanks for guidance and help on this.

I added you as a CC on bug 5180, which is an enhancement request  
(status: assigned) to extend this functionality to uploaded RTF files.

See: http://bugs.loncapa.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5180

Stuart Raeburn
LON-CAPA Academic Consortium


Quoting "Mills, Douglas G" <dmills at illinois.edu>:

> Hi All,
>
> Can anyone point me toward documentation of the current plagiarism   
> checking in Lon-Capa? I've found the following note online taken by   
> a colleague during the 2011 Lon-Capa users conference I think:
>
> "If submitted plain text, can do plagiarism checker against all   
> other submissions to that same problem (regardless of course,   
> institution, etc.)"
>
> But I don't know if that accurately describes the state today.   
> Somewhere else I saw an indication that this works only in essay   
> response questions, not, for example, in uploaded Word documents.    
> Thanks for guidance and help on this.
>
> Doug
>
> Douglas Mills
> Director of Instructional Technologies
> Department of Chemistry
> University of Illinois
> dmills at illinois.edu<mailto:dmills at illinois.edu>
> (217) 244-5739
>