NTNU uses the plagiarism control system Inspera Originality (www.inspera.com) to ensure academic integrity in submitted assignments. The system is used by NTNU and most other universities and colleges in Norway. This page provides staff and examiners with information about plagiarism control at NTNU.

Norwegian: Plagiatkontroll ved NTNU.

What does the plagiarism control do?

The system compares submitted texts with previous submissions at NTNU, documents from shared national databases, open sources on the internet, and texts/books available via Kopinor. The results are presented in a report that highlights the degree of textual similarity between the submitted work and existing sources.

In addition to text recognition from multiple sources and databases, Inspera Originality also includes other features to detect cheating. These include functions for identifying various forms of text manipulation, as well as a feature that detects when a text has been directly translated from one language to another.

The plagiarism control system does not distinguish between correctly cited text and potential plagiarism. Therefore, the generated reports must always be reviewed by someone with a good knowledge of the subject field. Such an assessment is necessary to determine whether there is a suspicion of plagiarism.

Guidelines at NTNU

Plagiarism can be cheating. For further information on handling suspicion of cheating, please refer to Cheating on exams. This tutorial gives also guidelines on how to handle suspicion of cheating at examinations at NTNU.

• The plagiarism check can be used to upload documents that are security classified as open or internal.
• Documents that are exempt from public disclosure, e.g. that contain sensitive personal data must not be uploaded to the plagiarism check.
• Documents with data worthy of protection which are bonded/clause, e.g. Master's theses that contain business secrets must be uploaded to NTNU's secured, confidential area in the plagiarism tool (U4457 – NTNU Confidential).
• Documents to which the subject teacher/student/institution does not have copyright must not be uploaded to the plagiarism check.
• Plagiarism reports must only be shared with people who have a professional need to access the report in their work. Sharing the plagiarism report with the student who has submitted the answer on which the report is based is permitted.
• Plagiarism-checked answers will be stored in NTNU's plagiarism database.
• Uploaded documents are not deleted from the plagiarism database.

Contact

Contact the Section for teaching, learning and digital services (SLD) for help with Inspera Originality through NTNU Help.

See also

• Understanding the Analysis Report from Inspera Originality
• Using Inspera Originality in Inspera Assessment
• Plagiarism Check for Students
• Publishing and Embargoing Assignments
• Using Inspera Originality in Canvas
• Cheating on exams
• Plan, administrate and evaluate teaching
• Exam - planning and administration
• Manual checking of student papers received outside the exam system and learning platform