A student's Similarity Score for plagiarism is 52.73%. It suggests two source options: www.thinkswap.com and www.coursehero.com. However, when I click on Compare, I get the following for both: 'The source you are trying to view has been updated and does not contain matches with your text.'
I notice that the actual link is www.thinkswap.com/plag-scan/au/hsc/english... and that is the only part of the URL I can read - the rest is obscured. I've attached an image of this.
What does this mean, and what can I do?
Thanks!
Hi @MelindaJollie,
I think you may get a lot of varying opinions on this question, as it somewhat may depend on someone's own personal views and/or your school/institutions's views and policies around academic integrity. In my mind, this would at least warrant a conversation with the student who submitted the paper. See what they have to say about the results and go from there. Maybe they will admit to copying some text... Maybe they submitted the work elsewhere in the past...
On the technical side, I can speak form experience with Turnitin and Vericite (now Turniitin again). The databases are made up partially of scnas of things publicly available on the web. The fact that the system you're using indicates a match means that the text at some point was available on the public web. As websites can add/move/delete things on a daily basis, yo may not always be able to find the resource in the plagiarism detection database in the future. It definitely makes things harder to prove, but I think that's something we have to live with. it's not really feasible for these services to rescan the entire web every day, modify their databases, adjust scores, etc. It's more of that "moment in time" snapshot you have to content with.
I hope this helps a bit.
-Chris
Have you tried searching for the text on Google? That's another way of finding the original source material.
While typing an Announcement, sometimes midway, we need to check something for which we click on Grades or Assignments. Then when we return to Announcements, what we types simply disappears. It will be very helpful to have a DRAFT option under Announcements so that the unfinished message is not lost.
I have used Blackboard, Moodle, and now work at a Canvas university. When grading quiz items. I want the ability to view all of the students' responses to a single item at once. This could allow consistency in grading and speed up the grading process. This functionality has been available in Moodle for over 10 years.
One of our faculty is having an issue with lists. The expected behavior has changed within his course and differs from the behavior I see in my dev shell. He creates an Ordered List as shown below. He changes Item 1A to a bullet point and saves the page. The bullet point for Item 1A changes from a bullet point back to 1. I…
I'm an instructional designer working with a faculty member who wants all of the students in the class to work in groups to complete a feedback form together, with contributions from each group member. The way the Canvas Collaborations instructions are written, I don't understand how to make this happen. Do we set up a…
Has anyone ever encountered this error in the Admin Analytics Student section?
