Thursday, June 20, 2013

Top 8 Plagiarism Detector Tools for Teachers

As an elementary school teacher that works with younger elementary students, I don't really have a lot of use for these tools as of yet, but I thought I'd share this article for two reasons.  The first reason is that I remember that there are a lot of middle-high school teachers in my courses and this could be a great resource for them.  Secondly, I didn't know there were SO MANY different software tools that focused on plagiarism.  The article, "Top 8 Plagiarism Detector Tools for Teachers" on Educatorstechnology.com gives links to and information on several web tools that can help teachers detect plagiarism in student work (and maybe could be used by students to make sure they haven't plagiarized).  One of the tools, Turnitin.com, was familiar to me as I've used it several times to turn in papers as an undergrad.  The others, such as Plagium, Dupli Checker, iThenticate and others detailed in the article boast simple ways to check portions or all of a student's text to check for plagiarism. I hope some of you find this article to be helpful...

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