Avoiding Plagiarism: A helpful resource from The OWL at Perdue. A set of articles for students and teachers. Among other helpful tips, the site offers descriptions of what constitutes plagiarized work. Also included is a page of Best Practices for Teachers. 04/11/08

SecureExam Browser: "A security application that locks down any web-based tool or platform, transforming school specific applications into secure testing vehicles. Like other Securexam applications, Securexam Browser creates a secure test environment by locking down the Windows operating system on the test-taker's laptop or desktop computer, only allowing access to the test application via our secure Internet browser. Giving exams on the internet has never been this easy or secure." Can be used with any testing situation, plus it's one of the WebCT/Blackboard Powerlinks. 05/16/06

Respondus Lockdown Browser: "...a custom browser that creates a secure testing environment within the WebCT and Blackboard e-learning platforms. When students use Respondus LockDown Browser they are unable to print, copy, go to another URL, or access other applications. When an assessment is started, students are locked into it until they submit it for grading." 05/16/06

Plagiarism Resource Site: "Intended as a clearinghouse for information on plagiarism, the site is especially concerned with news, developments, and resources that consider the issue in the context of undergraduate teaching and learning." 10/19/05

NetSupport: "Award winning multi-platform PC Remote Control software offering an unrivalled range of standard features. ...Use this class leading training software solution to Instruct, Monitor and Collaborate with your networked Students. Control + Monitor Student PCs, create Instant Student Surveys, design and send Custom Tests, monitor Web + Internet activity and conduct class forums." A colleague/mentor, Bernie Kirkey, says: "In my proctored exams, where I might have up to 80 students writing at one time, I use NetSupport to handle most of the problems [with cheating]. It allows remote monitoring of student displays, web blocking, and application blocking to help me control what's happening at each desk." 10/08/05

Does Technology Help Students Cheat? "Keeping track of plagiarism can be a complicated task. [School District Supervisor of Technology] Steve Hall said sophisticated plagiarism-detection software does exist, but it has been too expensive for the schools to buy so far. Instead, Hall coaches teachers in common-sense ways to avoid plagiarism in their classrooms. 'We tell our teachers to find more creative ways of framing essay questions..." Hall said the relatively new threat of on-line plagiarism actually forces teachers to offer more creative assignments. 'In a funny kind of way, its another way that technology makes teachers be better,'  he said." 09/01/05

Help Your Students Understand Plagiarism: Brought to you by the Purdue University Online Writing Lab. "Academic writing in American institutions is filled with rules that writers often don't know how to follow. A working knowledge of these rules, however, is critically important; inadvertent mistakes can lead to charges of plagiarism or the unacknowledged use of somebody else's words or ideas. While other cultures may not insist so heavily on documenting sources, American institutions do. A charge of plagiarism can have severe consequences, including expulsion from a university. This handout, which does not reflect any official university policy, is designed to help writers develop strategies for knowing how to avoid accidental plagiarism." 01/27/05

EVE2 ~ Plagiarism Detection for Teachers: (EVE2 = Essay Verification Engine): Here's a review from Professor Mario Arnaldo, an online friend: "Eve2 software is a breeze to use. Learning curve is about 3 min. I would HIGHLY recommend it to anyone, whether educational environment or not. A typical run takes approx 30 min for 11 papers...it would have taken me at least 20 min for EACH paper to check it via Google. If Eve2 finds a suspicious looking paper even at the 5% level, it will generate AND SAVE an rft document for review at your leisure, or you can proceed to validate findings LIVE ONLINE as you go. Cost $19.99. Quick download, quick install of 4.11 MB executable file."  01/15/05

Objective Testing: This how-to article was recommended by Daniel Ross (Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh) via the WebCT users' list: "I recommend this... Not only is it a great guide, it has some excellent examples and some really good ideas for designing online tests that avoid students cheating through good question design." 12/09/04

****Exemplary Site on Cheating Policy:**** University of Saskatchewan (my alma mater) has a website for their students, specifically to address the cheating/plagiarm issue. "This lists the policies surrounding how to deal with cheaters, a description of the penalties involved, statistics from previous years (to show students that cheaters get caught), and in the "Doing it right" section there are pointers to articles for faculty on how to catch cheating, as well as for students on how to properly document research, etc." (Kevin.Lowey@Usask.Ca) 09/30/04

TurnItIn: "Recognized worldwide as the standard in online plagiarism prevention, Turnitin helps educators and students take full advantage of the Internet's educational potential." Powerlinked partner with WebCT for use with WebCT Vista. 05/18/04

Cheating in the Digital Age: It's so easy......... A news article about it, accompanied by several links to papers that don't cost nearly as much as doing the actual work. 03/19/04

TurnItIn.Com: A person on a users list I belong to said: "I think it's one of the best in the market." It's an online service for which you purchase a license. You then submit papers for detection. FREE TRIAL, tutorials, quickstarts. 06/10/03

Academic Honesty - Combating Plagiarism and Cheating: a collection of links and articles from WebCT's library 09/30/02

Plagiarism: Murray Goldberg writes his opinion & strategies. Plus he provides several links to anti-plagiarism resources. 05/17/01

Plagiarism.org: "This site is designed to provide the latest information on online plagiarism and explain how our user portal, Turnitin.com, is now being used by educators all over the world to fight plagiarism and help bring academic integrity back into our schools." 05/17/01

iParadigms: "Our technology has already been successfully implemented in universities and secondary schools all over the world as a means of detecting plagiarism and maintaining academic integrity." 05/17/01

Plagiarism (anti-plagiarism): library resources at WebCT.com include links to anti-plagiarism sites PLUS strategies to deal with plagiarism 05/17/01

Plagiarism.com: GLATT Plagiarism Services. "The purpose of this site is to help teachers or professors (or even parents) determine if a given piece of academic work has been obtained from the Internet." 05/14/01

Anti-Plagiarism Strategies for Research Papers: Contains strategies of awareness, of prevention, of detection. Plus several links to PLAGIARISM DETECTORS. 05/14/01

Plagiarism: Anti-plagiarism resources from WebCT's library 11/22/00

Cut-and-Paste Plagiarism: Preventing, Detecting and Tracking On-line Plagiarism 11/06/00

Plagiarized.com: The Instructor's Guide to Internet Plagiarism - "The purpose of this site is to help teachers or professors (or even parents) determine if a given piece of academic work has been obtained from the Internet." 11/06/00

Plagiarism in Colleges in USA: "This essay discusses plagiarism from a legal perspective." This site also provides a set of links for "other perspectives on the problem of plagiarism." 11/06/00

Electronic Plagiarism: An on-line seminar from the library of Le Moyne College, Syracuse, New York 10/30/00

Detect Programming Plagiarism: If you're teaching programming, MOSS will help you. "To date, the main application of Moss has been in detecting plagiarism in programming classes. Since its development in 1994, Moss has been very effective in this role. The algorithm behind moss is a significant improvement over other cheating detection algorithms (at least, over those known to us)." 08/04/00

Detect Plagiarism: Glatt Plagiarism Services, Inc. produces three different software Programs to help deter and detect plagiarism. 08/04/00

Detect Plagiarism: iParadigms Inc. presents their solution for detecting plagiarism. 08/04/00

Plagiarists' Search Engines Free Use or to Purchase These are software programs that provide searches of Internet papers, known paper mills, and electronic library resources, etc. Most of them provide a downloadable free trial copy to try it out. Your students likely know about them; maybe it's best if you do too. Eve by CaNexus Turniton Glatt Easy Write Genius Papers Termpapers on File My DL Store