Abstract:

The swedish system URKUND has helped universities, organizations and institutions all over the world in preventing and combating plagiarism for almost twenty years. In this presentation, we would like to share our point of view on the matter.

Generally, we will talk about Prevention, Education, Academic integrity, Student awareness, and the Legal aspects behind the students plagiarism.

About URKUND
URKUND offers a fully-automated system for handling plagiarism. In short, the students send their documents to their teachers through an integration with the institution’s LMS/VLE, via e-mail or direct upload on our website. Along the electronic route between student and teacher, the documents are checked against three central source areas: Internet, published material and student material. If any document displays similarities with the content in the three sources, the system will flag it for possible plagiarism. An analysis overview is generated and sent to the LMS/VLE and/or by e-mail to the teacher. The analysis overview presents, in a simplified form, the information needed in order to determine if plagiarism has occurred.

Keywords:

Plagiarism.