All

Schools and universities are pushed into remote learning due to COVID-19. Teachers and professors need to move their courses and classes online – some of them for the first time and in short notice. We gathered tips on how to effectively prepare for a remote class. We also asked Digital… Read More »

Teaching Online for the First Time: 7 Tips for Successful ...

This entry was posted on April 24, 2020

Plenty of providers offer a huge variety of tools and solutions for communicating and working remotely. We have created a step-by-step guide to help you to pick the right communication tools for you and your team. Let’s get interaction in your teams and classes to the next level! Step 1:… Read More »

How to Choose Communication Tools for Remote Working, Teaching ...

This entry was posted on April 9, 2020

In February members of the renowned European Network for Academic Integrity published a study comparing 15 providers of support tools for plagiarism detection. The programs were tested for their performance, language coverage and usability. PlagScan did not just come out as one of the top solution providers overall (see our… Read More »

PlagScan Ranked Top Support Tool for Plagiarism Detection for the ...

This entry was posted on March 13, 2020

Thomas Hlinka — For every growing and successful company comes the time when the business side of things needs a proper Chief Financial Officer. That is why Thomas Hlinka joined PlagScan to support the company in terms of accounting and controlling. Thomas has a background as tax consultant and tax advisor, with a… Read More »

PlagScan Expands Its Team With a CFO

This entry was posted on February 24, 2020

PlagScan has been ranked by the European Network for Academic Integrity as one of the best providers for text-matching software. The ranking results from several tests comparing the performance, coverage and usability of 15 products worldwide. Supporting fair and helpful evaluation and feedback The main goal of the conducted tests… Read More »

Press Release: PlagScan Ranked as One of the Top Softwares ...

This entry was posted on February 20, 2020

Trends in Education 2020 — With 2019 drawing to a close, let’s have a look at which trends might have an impact on global education in 2020. Over the last few years, two megatrends have strongly influenced the development of global education and its standards. Digitalization and Globalization have been the main forces to drive… Read More »

Trends in Education 2020: An Outlook

This entry was posted on December 23, 2019

paint brushes — As an artist working with images from references, how do you approach utilizing internet found content and incorporating them into your own artistic creations? We took a look at various mediums including collage and photorealistic paintings. The answer is not always as simple as running the images through software and… Read More »

Copyright infringement in use of Images

This entry was posted on August 9, 2019

PlagScan_PeerGroupSimilarityHypothesis — The Socio-Linguistic Variant and What Author Metrics Doesn’t Want to Investigate Real papers against real ghostwriters PlagScan conducted an experiment with a student writing corpus collected from a group of students outside the US and UK all belonging to the same classroom. The selected papers were response papers to the… Read More »

The ‘Peer Group Similarity Hypothesis’ Part II

This entry was posted on July 25, 2019

The Authorship Verification Problem: Finding out if an unknown document can be attributed to a specific author — In the process of developing ‘Author Metrics’, a contract cheating detection feature, PlagScan experimentally discovered that the ‘Peer Group Similarity Hypothesis’ can be applied to detect ghostwriters.

The ‘Peer Group Similarity Hypothesis’ Part I: The Basics

This entry was posted on July 18, 2019

We can’t believe 2018 is already coming to an end! We had a truly wonderful and fruitful year thanks to you all. With this end-of-the-year post, we would like to recap the highlights of our year and give you a sneak peek at what’s coming next in 2019. We… Read More »

Best wishes for the end of the year

This entry was posted on December 20, 2018