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Come Original: Google Gets Into the Anti-Plagiarism Game

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Google’s originality reports essentially functions as a plagiarism checker, and that idea is hardly new. Just last month, Proctorio, a remote-proctoring company, launched new plagiarism detection tools and made them available in Canvas, a popular learning management system. Screenshot of Google’s originality report.

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How to combat misuse of AI in student writing

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Teachers should include an AI use chart (like this one from Ditch That Textbook ) with their course descriptions and have clear-cut discussions with parents and students about when AI use is and is not acceptable.

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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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Teacher-Authors: What’s Happening on my Writer’s Blog

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Though they claim answers are not copied word for word, this raises concerns about plagiarism, quality of content, and ‘dumbing down’ our art. At least, that’s my opinion as a freelance journalist, fiction writer, and non-fiction textbook author. These can’t be answered yet, but are on writer’s minds.

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17 Little-Known Tips, Tricks and Hacks for Using Google in the Classroom

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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. Instead of teaching with a math textbook, it’s way more fun to teach with Chrome Music lab, he added.”

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Everything you need to know about AI in education

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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. AI transforms textbooks into interactive study guides. How can I use AI as a teacher? That’s over ten hours a week.

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Some Professors Fight Study-Help Sites. Other Professors Now Use Them.

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She took inspiration from what she found (though she said she didn’t copy anything verbatim), and the site made her feel like she had a handle on how others using the same textbook were running their classes. As the site’s website says: “Course Hero does not tolerate copyright infringement, plagiarism, or cheating of any kind.

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