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Re:- below yep I agree Mike >
What & why are you comparing & why waste time on
comparing them anyway? A much better use of your time would be to create
a staff development programme that uses your chosen ”text matching”
tool as a teaching tool , as opposed to a policing tool.
If you therefore treat SafeAssign as a (free) teaching
tool, then it makes no difference whether or not it’s more or less
accurate than TII – as it’s been used as a strong teaching
aid. And that’s what TII (not free) states as it’s primary use is
anyway. Those who just use TII or similar to purely check suspect scripts
are missing the point of employing such tools/ teaching aids.
</rant over > :o)
Regards..
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Happy New Year! Can I play Devil's Advocate a bit and ask
your reasoning? Presumably your institution has made this decision
primarily on cost grounds. In which case any comparison is futile, as
TurnitinUk is no longer free; and never was really because it was funded by
JISC. My own pretty anecdotal view is you get what you pay for - including the
training and support - or in your case, maybe you don't. Your comment
"free (to Blackboard users)" is indicative. What might me really
useful to fellow list subscribers would be an account by you of your experiences
with this bolt on option to Blackboard, as Service ( a deliberate emphasis on
the S) is what is critical for you, beyond any technical comparison with other
detection packages.
Mike
Stephen Williams asked:
> My institution has adopted SafeAssign as its
plagiarism detection
> software. Does anybody know of any published
comparisons between this
> piece of free (to Blackboard users) software and
Turnitin please?
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