[Building Sakai] software plagiarism plugin?

[Adam Marshall]

Gregory

Unless I'm misunderstanding your question, there are a couple of Sakai initiatives for plagiarism checking. Longsight have their own Vericite software <www.longsight.com/technologies/vericite> but there's also a couple of TurnItIn integrations: <https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/TII/Home>

There's been a new development in the last week which I haven't yet had time to research fully. iParadigms have announced that the TS2 code is now not the way forward and that they would rather we used their LTI integration. But this is no ordinary LTI integration, they have defined some extensions to the LTI spec which will allow TutnItIn to work just as it currently does, ie, an assignment can be submitted to Sakai's Assignments tool and then be routed to TII behind the scenes.

If this approach works as promised then this is good although we have to hope that iParadigms don't change their mind again regarding integration. We've spent a lot of time developing the TS2 code which will probably all have to be thrown away (just like the previous 2 integrations). Lets hope the LTI route has a longer shelf-life!


Adam
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From: sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Gregory Guthrie
Sent: 28 November 2014 03:37
To: sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
Subject: [Building Sakai] software plagiarism plugin?

I have searched around a bit and not found any software plagiarism detection software connected to Sakai. Two of the most commonly used (free) ones are MOSS & JPlag, and there are various front-end interfaces for JPlag at least.

I am wondering firstly why no-one using Sakai for computing courses has found a need for or developed such a system, or if I just haven't yet found it.

Pending that some solution does not yet already exist, what would be eh best way to see how to build such an interface. E.g. how does Sakai interface to TurnItIn, seems it uses LTI - would this be a good model to study? 

(Moodle has a plugin for some of these tools (JPlag), so they do provide interface capabilities, although at what level I do not yet know.)

Anyone around that could be recommended for a bid on contract work to create such an interface?
(We're more interested in usage than development of this for now!)

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