[Building Sakai] software plagiarism plugin?

[Adam Marshall]

I have not heard of anybody doing (computer) code detection in Sakai. Or indeed any other LMS!

adam

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Dr A C Marshall, WebLearn Service Manager, University of Oxford.
IT Services, 13 Banbury Rd, Oxford. OX2 6NN. 



-----Original Message-----
From: Gregory Guthrie [mailto:guthrie at mum.edu] 
Sent: 28 November 2014 12:57
To: Adam Marshall; sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
Subject: RE: software plagiarism plugin?

Thanks for the note and ideas.

Sakai has TurnItIn, but as far as I know they only do single document prose detection.

The thing I am specifically interested in is code plagiarism detection, which is a more complex problem for many reasons. Often assignments may involve a common boilerplate, which has to then be ignored, and also a hierarch of files in some package structure (~Java).

There are lots of papers on it, but not much for LMS integration. There is a new LMS specifically for Computer Science courses (Mimar: http://www.mimirplatform.com/ )which is new but focused on this area.

Best,
Gregory

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adam Marshall [mailto:adam.marshall at it.ox.ac.uk]
> Sent: Friday, November 28, 2014 6:39 AM
> To: Gregory Guthrie; sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
> Subject: RE: software plagiarism plugin?
> 
> 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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> ** Note change of email address to adam.marshall at it.ox.ac.uk **
> 
> Dr A C Marshall, WebLearn Service Manager, University of Oxford.
> IT Services, 13 Banbury Rd, Oxford. OX2 6NN.
> 
> 
> 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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