[LON-CAPA-users] Plagiarism Checking
Stuart Raeburn
raeburn at msu.edu
Mon Aug 18 16:30:24 EDT 2014
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
>
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