JISC Plagiarism Detection Service

							JISC Plagiarism Detection
Service
Key Points:

     Provided by JISC for 2 years free of charge
     Service easy to use, no specialist software
      required - just web browser
     Users set up and working in minutes
     Assignments can be submitted by staff or
      students, singly or in bulk in a wide range of file
      formats, eg .doc, .pdf, .html
                    David Gardner, Learning
                  Development Unit, March 2003
JISC Plagiarism Detection
Service

    Compares work against:
           previously submitted material,
           over 800,000,000 websites
           essays from cheat sites

 Provides a colour-coded 'originality report’ highlighting
  text within the assignment that has been found at
  another source, and provides links to it


                       David Gardner, Learning
                     Development Unit, March 2003
JISC Plagiarism Detection
Service
    Is a complete service which we must use as is or not at all
    The University has signed a legally binding agreement to the
     terms and conditions of the service
    Staff who want to use the system must sign
     ‘Document D’' to authorise iParadigms to hold personal
     data, which are linked to work submitted by your students
    Students automatically give permission for use of this
     system when they register for their course.




                     David Gardner, Learning
                   Development Unit, March 2003
JISC Plagiarism Detection
Service
    Documentation University, staff and students have to sign
     has been cleared with University of Leeds Legal Adviser
    We have, independently of JISC and HEFCE secured written
     confirmation from iParadigms that they will abide by EU data
     protection legislation
    If you are contacted by someone from another institution in
     response to the system having spotted similarities between
     work submitted at the two institutions, you must not give
     any personal information whatsoever about the student at
     the University of Leeds. Official policy is not even to
     confirm or deny that anyone is registered at the
     University.

                     David Gardner, Learning
                   Development Unit, March 2003
JISC Plagiarism Detection
Service
    We have developed a Plagiarism website
     http://www.ldu.leeds.ac.uk/lt/plagiarism.htm
    From our site you can access information and
     documentation about the service including, from the JISC
     website, an Instructor User Manual and a Student User
     Manual
    To use the Univesity of Leeds account on the system follow
     the link from our website to the registration form
    Important: Plagiarism detection software is only one tool
     in a plagiarism reduction/prevention strategy - see links on
     our website for other tools/techniques/information


                     David Gardner, Learning
                   Development Unit, March 2003