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Free plagiarism checker

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Unicheck realizes that more instructors and students will need to have instant access to the plagiarism checker. To assist you in the fight against plagiarism Unicheck is offering to all institutions that have no active Unicheck licenses, they will gladly share free access to Unicheck till June 30. 1 281 912 0548 (US). +1

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Come Original: Google Gets Into the Anti-Plagiarism Game

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Students and instructors can run originality reports to check any written assignments done in Google Doc against the hundreds of billions of web pages, and tens of millions of books, that Google has indexed over the years. Google’s originality reports essentially functions as a plagiarism checker, and that idea is hardly new.

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Should Instructors Ask Students to Show Document Histories to Guard Against AI Cheating?

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Time-Lapse History Anna Mills, an English instructor at the College of Marin in Oakland, California, has used process tracking in her writing classes. Can process tracking turn out to be the answer to checking student work for authenticity? It can create a time-lapse video of the documents creation as well.

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Reliable Turnitin alternatives for K12

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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. Irritation and stress from such tasks are like poison that makes instructors lose energy and harms their nerves. .

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What Higher Ed Gets Wrong About AI Chatbots — From the Student Perspective

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And as someone who is also a former journalist and editor for EdSurge, I recognize that we should never plagiarize, and that artificially-intelligent chatbots are very, very capable of responding to prompts like “Write me a 500-word essay on Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night.” So how can that work?

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Student success is impacted by issues outside of school, survey finds

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K-12 educators are consistently more likely than higher education instructors to say their school lacks adequate funding for technology. Seventy-two percent believe that their school needs to provide more guidance on the use of emerging technology.

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Online Cheating Isn’t Going Away. Use It as a Teachable Moment for Students and Educators

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Valerie Schreiner, chief product officer at plagiarism detection service provider Turnitin, said the cost continues to decrease to hire someone to write your paper or gain remote access to a computer to take an exam. “I Part of the issue when designing assignments and exams to deter cheating is recognizing what cheating in 2020 looks like.

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