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MAY 25, 2022

Turnitin has long been the go-to resource for uncovering plagiarism in student work, but there are reasons why that may not be a good choice for you or your students. Since the COVID-19 pandemic has made the workload even heavier, many instructors have felt how awful it is to use an unreliable plagiarism checker.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2023

It sounds too simple when I read the dozens of articles that fill the internet so I asked the AI to tell me what it was: “ChatGPT is a computer program that generates text based on what you type to it. Most importantly, it’s a legit way to avoid plagiarism and learn how to analyze and process information.

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Writing Plagiarism Intelligence Students 158

Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2018

Here’s a slightly Orwellian way to check whether your students may have plagiarized part of their essays: the Chrome extension Draftback , which plays back the revision history of any Google doc you can edit—down to the keystroke. And Google Keep’s extension is a fast way to bookmark content on a site and review later in a Doc.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2020

The problem, though, is that some sites simply set up shop on a new internet server to avoid the ban, and officials say there is no way to completely restrict access to such sites through blocking IP addresses alone. Another plagiarism-detection company, Unicheck, also offers a product that it says can help colleges address contract cheating.

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JULY 22, 2015

Visiting the internet includes certain rights and responsibilities. Each year, add a few more from this list of nineteen digital citizenship topics including cyberbullying, digital footprint, digital law, fair use and public domain, copyrights, plagiarism, social media, and digital commerce. Internet use. Digital Citizenship.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A key conversation focuses on weighing its benefits versus risks, and many education institutions have been quick to implement bans on the technology altogether for fears of plagiarism in written works. Lack of regulation: The SEC failed to adjust its regulations to the new realities of the internet and the stock market.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

Even during the pandemic’s early days, some professors decided to toss out their grade books , figuring that high-stress assessments weren’t appropriate given the uncertain circumstances, which saw students sent away from campuses, sometimes without tech tools or internet access.

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MARCH 22, 2018

Before we adopted Google Classroom, I used to check all of the essays in my class via Google Search, copying and pasting the written fragments of text into the browser if I had doubts. At recess, I usually input the new vocabulary words in Quizlet, with cards and audio files so that students could access them later while doing the homework.

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Quizzes Essay Learning Assignments 87

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JUNE 23, 2016

assess the credibility and accuracy of each source, and integrate the information while avoiding plagiarism. Here’s a sampling of one-tweet Twitter novels you can find on the Internet: ‘He said he was leaving her. Today in the 21st Century schools, they’d be wrong. plot/pacing. character development. But I love you,” she said. “I

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APRIL 4, 2019

Plagiarism. The opponent might be a classmate or an anonymous person on the Internet, depending upon the program you select. Have students type a school project (such as a book report or essay) while paying attention to keyboarding skills. Cyber-bullying. How to search. Teachers create a class account. Cyberbullying.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2022

After trying it out on some essay prompts he’d been assigned, though, he noticed some problems. It seemed to take out some of the thankless legwork (or, some professors might argue, the work) from essay writing, only requiring a little pre-work and a touch of editing: “You can at least write papers 30 percent quicker,” he says.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 16, 2023

The main debate has been in its use of plagiarism among students. It is a text predictor based upon a subset of data found on the internet. It does not monitor the data and is not a reflection of something larger or more nefarious occurring on the internet. The ubiquitous essay is still relevant despite ChatGPT.

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Plagiarism Essay Assignments Language 122

Faculty Focus

MARCH 16, 2023

The main debate has been in its use of plagiarism among students. It is a text predictor based upon a subset of data found on the internet. It does not monitor the data and is not a reflection of something larger or more nefarious occurring on the internet. The ubiquitous essay is still relevant despite ChatGPT.

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Plagiarism Essay Assignments Language 98