Indonesia’s Biggest Hybrid University at the Forefront of Safeguarding Academic Integrity
Universitas Terbuka prevents plagiarism using the Ouriginal text-matching solution. The goal is to provide every student with the chance to develop their full potential.
Originality – are we encouraging it in our classrooms?
When running a workshop for a primary class once, instead of asking students to take out pencils to write, I asked them to find some way to write (a task). In my mind, I imagined students would simply take out their pencils. Little did I know how creative and original students could be. From crayons […]
Originality: Why this important skill is overlooked at school
Encouraging originality is increasingly seen as important not only in universities, but in schools too. How can institutions support students in finding the best ways to learn, solve problems and develop ideas? A student’s perspective.
Best ways to promote originality with every assignment
How can we reduce the opportunity to cheat? Fraud happens due to three factors. Learn how to tackle each of them with every given assignment.
Business and originality – its importance is ever growing
Content is king in every business. It defines your business, your product and service offerings – and in order to be different and interesting to your customers, it needs to be unique.
Celebrating a Milestone: Ouriginal’s 1st Anniversary!
When Urkund and PlagScan joined forces and became Ouriginal, exactly one year ago, a new chapter in the fight against plagiarism was written.
What is Originality? Choose your best answer from these 4 options!
Throughout human history, people have defined and expressed originality in different ways. Now it’s your turn: What does originality mean to you?
The Future of Writing Style Analyses: Ouriginal Metrics as a Learning Analytics Tool
In the last two parts of this series (part 1, part 2) on computational linguistics and writing style analytics, we mostly discussed how stylometry can be used to detect ghostwriters. Besides this scenario, Ouriginal Metrics could also be used as a learning analytics tool to analyze students writing styles, help them to improve their writing skills.
False positives: Why are they important and why must software algorithms learn and adapt
A common threat in the fight against plagiarism is to not recognize so-called “false positives” and to underestimate their importance. But first, let us understand what false positives are and why are they a big deal.
Computational Linguistics To Uncover Ghostwriters And Unfair Contract Cheating – And Its Limitations
According to previous theoretical discussions and experimental results in stylometry, genre and topic interference can make differentiation between authors harder. This is because shared word and phrase usage that accompanies writing on the same topic as well as the writing conventions for particular genres make it difficult to identify a strong authorial signature to be used for author verification.