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It is no secret that schools, colleges, and universities around the world take plagiarism very seriously. This growing concern is not just for students but for professors as well, who are working hard to ensure academic integrity. 

To combat plagiarism, professors have implemented special methods and strict disciplinary actions. Despite these efforts, some students still manage to find undetectable ways to plagiarize their academic work.

Fortunately, with the advent of plagiarism checkers, it has become easier than ever for professors to detect plagiarized work. These tools work by comparing the given content with all available sources on the internet and providing a comprehensive report showing a percentage of unique and plagiarized content.

That’s why, in this blog post, we have decided to discuss different reasons that will encourage every teacher and professor who is still not using a plagiarism checker to consider using one.

Best 4 Reasons Why Plagiarism Checkers are Necessary for Uni Professors

1. Prevent Cheating and Promote Ethical Behavior

This may seem obvious but it is considered one of the primary reasons why a plagiarism checker is necessary for professors. 

In this world of the internet, it is now extremely easy for students to just search the web and copy the required content and submit it to the instructor. To tackle this problem, professors can take help from plagiarism checkers. 

These checkers analyze the content through millions of websites, research articles, journals, and e-books to find similarities. If any similarities are found, the tool will highlight or underline them (depending on the type of tool).

To illustrate better, we have copied content from a website [onlinedegrees.sandiego.edu] and checked its plagiarism with an online plagiarism checker to see how the tool deal with it.  

As you can see in the image, the tool has not only detected plagiarism in our given content but also highlighted it along with the matched sources. 

So, when students know that their academic work will be checked for plagiarism. There will be no way left for them except to just spend time and effort on creating and submitting their work.

2. Easily Integrate with LMS (Learning Management System)

Most of the plagiarism checkers come with an integration feature (API, Browser Extension, or Plugin), allowing Uni professors to integrate plagiarism checkers with their Learning Management System (LMS). 

Integration of plagiarism detection tools with LMS can be beneficial for both professors and students. Teachers can quickly scan students’ work without going to different websites for plagiarism-checking purposes. While students, before submitting it to the instructor/professor, can also make sure that their written work is free from plagiarism.

3. Helps in Fair Grading

Plagiarism checkers can help university professors in fair grading by ensuring that all students are evaluated based on their original work.

These tools offer users thorough plagiarism scan reports, enabling professors to precisely identify students who have either intentionally or unintentionally copied content, as well as those who have demonstrated dedicated efforts in producing original work.

This will further allow the professors to do fair grading by giving low grades or marks to students that have intentionally plagiarized their work. And reward the hardworking students with good grades which will further motivate them to keep working hard throughout their academic journey.  

4. Allows them to Improve Student’s Writing Skills

When students know that their academic work will be checked by a professor for plagiarism, students will spend both time and effort researching their assignment or research paper topic. So that they can come up with unique ideas. 

Moreover, while researching the topic thoroughly, students will get familiar with different ways, perspectives, and styles of expressing an idea. This will further help in improving their writing abilities/skills.  

Students can try the following to create plagiarism-free assignments:

• Understand the topic efficiently.
• Consider approaching the topic from different angles and perspectives.
• Get help from seniors for more unique ideas.

However, one problem that students may face is that there is already a lot of information on the internet about every topic. So, there are chances that their written work may contain some traces of accidental plagiarism no matter if they have written it from scratch or using their own words.

In this case, the students will start looking for ways to eliminate those plagiarism traces from their work. And they will be getting introduced to techniques like paraphrasing and citing. 

Paraphrasing and citing academic work will eventually contribute to improving the overall writing skills of students. Paraphrasing refers to restating already written text in your own words, without changing the original meaning. It can be done both manually and with the help of the online paraphrasing tool. 

Manual rephrasing can be time taking and it can be frustrating especially when the submission date is close. In such cases, it’s not a bad idea to utilize online tools to remove plagiarism.

On the other hand, citing identifies for the reader the source of information, or idea that is referred to in the text. 

Overall, by letting the students that their written work will be checked for plagiarism, professors can restrict students to write their work which further results in improved writing skills of students. 

Conclusion

With the help of plagiarism checkers, professors can make sure students are submitting their own. Not just this, teachers also promote ethical behavior and work honesty among the students. We have discussed different reasons why every professor should start using a plagiarism checker. Hope you will like it. Thanks for reading!