This term will be the last for Turnitin. After many years as our go-to for plagiarism detection, the University is moving to a new advanced plagiarism detection tool designed to ensure the originality of academic work. Maintaining academic integrity is crucial, and Copyleaks will provide us the technology to help uphold these standards with ease and accuracy.
Leveraging cutting-edge AI technology, Copyleaks can easily detect similarities between submitted texts and a vast database of sources. It will help instructors identify potential plagiarism by comparing student submissions against billions of web pages, scholarly articles, and academic papers, and provide a detailed similarity reports, enabling facutly to evaluate the originality of the content and be the final say.
Some benefits of the new Copyleaks:
- It uses state-of-the-art AI to provide more accurate and comprehensive plagiarism detection, ensuring that even sophisticated attempts at plagiarism are caught.
- It scans an extensive database that includes academic publications, student papers, and web content. It also has added capabilities to scan and compare content from various sources. For those in computer science and engineering disciplines, it will even scan computer code for plagiarism.
- It is built on the familiar Canvas interface.
- It provides in-depth visual reports with a clear breakdown of sources and tools for generating detailed feedback for students.
- It can detect plagiarism across different languages, making it suitable for our increasingly diverse and international student body.
Instructors can enable Copyleaks Plagiarism Detection as part of any new Canvas assignment, as it is enabled on a per-assignment basis in Canvas. To find out how to get started, Academic Technology Services is offering an Introduction to Copyleaks from Plagiarism Detection session on January 13, 2025, starting at 11 a.m. You can also find more information at smu.edu/copyleaks.
