Do you only scan pages that are submitted to a group? Pages made visible to the public? To logged-in users? To institutions?
]]>I'm not necessarily out to 'catch' anybody, but rather to make it plain to see, where content isn't original. Appropriately topped and tailed, there's no reason why material couldn't be copied in, and discussed.
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A plaigarism tool in Mahara would be handy and a welcome addition!
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You are right that with student groups of 200-300 persons, not every tutor can read every document.
And it seems to be a question to find different topics for summative work, so that students do not copy good texts from others of previous years or even other universities.
Do you have any experience with other settings for exams, especially with e-portfolios? I am a member of the elearning support team at our distance teaching university and new to this field of work.
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Plagiarism detection has come up a couple of times, but I didn't find a wishlist item for it.
Taking permissions into consideration, you would only find content to which you have access. The fulltext search might give you some indication of the same content, but it would be a manual process at the moment.
Would others be interested in plagiarism detection as well?
Cheers
Kristina
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I am new to this forum and Mahara. Maybe plagiarism was discussed in the past and I couldn't find it (by the way, how do I search Mahara forums?)
Teachers asked me, if there is a possibility to find content copied from other portfolios?
Looking forward to a discussion
Brigitte (FernUni/German Distance Teaching University)
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