Enabling plagiarism prevention

To make use of plagiarism prevention, the feature must be enabled by an administrator by checking the enable plagiarism plugins box in Administration > Site administration > Advanced features.

Plagiarism prevention plugins

An administrator then needs to install and configure one or more plagiarism prevention plugins in Administration > Site administration > Plugins > Plagiarism prevention > Plagiarism settings. Possible plugins include:

Fully supported plugins

These are plugins that support plagiarism detection within the LMS Assignment, Workshop and Forum activities.

• Compilatio – Commercial tool requires paid subscription
• Turnitin – Commercial tool requires paid subscription
• URKUND – Commercial tool requires paid subscription
• UNPLAG – Commercial tool requires paid subscription

Partially supported plugins

These are plugins that currently only support the LMS Assignment activity.

• CopyCheck – Commercial tool requires paid subscription
• PLAGIARISMA – Commercial tool requires paid subscription
• PlagScan – Commercial tool requires paid subscription
• Vericite – Commercial tool requires paid subscription

Other tools for managing plagiarism

• Acknowledge plagiarism statement access rule – A plugin by the Open University lets you require students to agree to a statement about not plagiarising before starting a quiz.
• Safe Exam Browser quiz access rule – Provides Safe Exam Browser 2.0 integration for LMS.