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Assignments Symbol — PlagScan’s Submissions feature is a convenient method for educators to collect their students’ documents digitally. This can easily be done by uploading documents via an online portal by the students themselves. Intermediate steps such as submitting through emailed links and USB sticks become irrelevant. However, we want to address the… Read More »

PlagScan’s New and Improved Assignments Feature

This entry was posted on December 12, 2019

PlagScan is happy to announce the upgrade of its advanced database, which now checks against millions of sources of newly added academic journals and articles. By cooperating with several of the most renowned scientific publishers worldwide, professors, instructors and peer-reviewers can now check theses, articles and assignments for plagiarism. Millions… Read More »

News Release: Advanced Plagiarism Detection Against Additional Millions of Academic ...

This entry was posted on October 16, 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

PlagScan Integrates New Usage Statistics Feature

This entry was posted on May 29, 2019

Ghostwriter — PlagScan, the renowned safeguarder of Academic Integrity, presents the latest addition to the plagiarism prevention portfolio. Author Metrics, our new feature, is an extension of our established services and represents a turning point in educational technology’s ability to ensure originality and honesty at schools and universities. With PlagScan’s plagiarism checker,… Read More »

Author Metrics: PlagScan’s new Ghostwriting Detection Solution

This entry was posted on May 3, 2019

Our motto for the 2019 Version: Transparency, Organisation, Collaboration As you probably know, PlagScan developed a full integration on one of the most renown open source LMS Moodle so that users could benefit from PlagScan solutions without navigating between an LMS and our features. In 2019, we are now implementing… Read More »

PlagScan released its latest Moodle PlugIn

This entry was posted on April 8, 2019

Screenshot create registration invites — Administration work is usually tedious and time-consuming – yet, it is the kind of work that needs to be done. At PlagScan, we’re eager to simplify the administration of your account as much as possible and keep your work to a minimum. We recently developed a new feature that will… Read More »

New Self Registration Feature Simplifies Account Administration

This entry was posted on December 17, 2018

Welcome back to the second part of advanced coding tips. If you missed the first part, feel free to catch up on it here. In this article, we will continue with the rest of the coding smells with real-life examples and how we can resolve them. Primitive Obsession This coding… Read More »

Become An Expert Developer with These Advanced Coding Tips (Part ...

This entry was posted on October 22, 2018

Code smells are a set of common signs which indicate that your code is not good enough and it needs refactoring to finally have a clean code. In this article, I am going to explain the code smells with real-life examples from real projects on GitHub and show you the… Read More »

Write Clean Code and Get Rid of Code Smells with ...

This entry was posted on September 10, 2018