MOSS

Special note to CDM Faculty and those other faculty who use similar assignments:

Those faculty who have assignments involving code files might find assistance in detecting violations from MOSS.

• MOSS is a free service hosted by Stanford University. Faculty submit a set of software source code files turned in by students for a particular programming assignment and the MOSS server produces web pages listing pairs of programs with similar code.
• MOSS also highlights individual passages in programs that appear the same, making it easy to quickly compare the files.
• Finally, MOSS can automatically ignore matches on the parts of the assignments that one expects to be shared (e.g., software libraries or instructor-supplied code), thereby eliminating false positives that arise from legitimate sharing.
• To obtain a Moss account, send a mail message to moss@moss.stanford.edu. The body of the message should appear exactly as follows:
  
  registeruser
  mail username@domain (your email address)
  
• If you already have an account, the latest submission script can be downloaded here and additional information is available here: MOSS.

Turn-It-In Plagiarism Detection Service

Turn-It-In technology is available to DePaul faculty to verify originality of student work.
The technology is based on prior submissions to Turn-It-In as well as public sources against which a student's current submission is compared. After comparison, Turn-It-In gives the faculty member a report on the probability of plagiarism, though the final decision whether the work constitutes a violation of DePaul's Academic Integrity Policy is made by the DePaul course instructor.
Note that all papers submitted by DePaul are placed within a separate node on the Turn-It-In site, allowing DePaul full access to the Turn-It-In database but preventing other institutions from searching the DePaul papers.

• To examine the University's approved plagiarism detection system, turnitin.com, visit Instructional Technology Development's Turn-It-In guide
• CDM Faculty and those other faculty who use similar assignments should see information about MOSS, a plagiarism detection tool specifically designed for assignments involving computer code files (available through a link on this website).
• If you uncover a violation and impose a sanction of ANY kind that changes the conditions of the course, you will need to report the violation through the academic integrity violation link under for instructors on Campus Connect.