Plagiarism control at NTNU

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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.

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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

The following guidelines apply to plagiarism control at NTNU.

Conducting plagiarism checks for written submissions

Plagiarism checks must be carried out for all unsupervised written submissions that form part of the final assessment.
Documents for which the employee, student, or institution does not hold copyright must not be submitted to the plagiarism detection system. Only documents for which the student, employee, or institution claims copyright at the time of submission may be uploaded to the plagiarism detection system. Employees may submit documents to the plagiarism detection system for which students hold the copyright.
As a rule, plagiarism-checked submissions will be stored in NTNU’s database of previously submitted assignments. Submissions containing restricted or confidential data requiring special protection must not be stored.

The similarity report

As part of the marking process, all similarity reports must be reviewed and checked for suspected plagiarism and other forms of academic misconduct.
The course coordinator is responsible for ensuring that all similarity reports are reviewed for suspected academic misconduct.
The course coordinator may delegate the review of similarity reports to examiners. In such cases, this must be communicated clearly to the examiners.
Similarity reports may only be shared with colleagues who require access to the report in the course of their work.
The similarity report may be shared with the student who submitted the work that has been checked. This may, for example, be relevant if there is a suspicion of academic misconduct.
Sensitive personal data must not be entered into the plagiarism detection system’s comment function. This includes, for example, notes indicating that academic misconduct is suspected in relation to a particular submission.

Special categories of documents

The plagiarism detection system may only be used to submit documents classified as open or internal.
Documents exempt from public disclosure, for example those containing sensitive personal data, must not be submitted to the plagiarism detection system.
When submitting assignments containing restricted or confidential data requiring special protection, the person administering the written submission must ensure that storage of the submission is disabled. This may, for example, apply to master's theses containing trade secrets.
As a rule, uploaded documents are not deleted from the database of previously submitted assignments.
If you discover sensitive personal data in the plagiarism detection system, report this to the Section for Learning Support and Digital Services via NTNU Help.

Employees’ and students’ plagiarism checking of their own work

Employees and students may use the plagiarism detection system to check their own texts for plagiarism.
Students’ self-checking of their own work is intended to provide greater assurance that they will not be suspected of plagiarism due to unintentional referencing errors. However, a low plagiarism risk indicated by the self-check does not guarantee that the student cannot subsequently be suspected of academic misconduct in connection with the same submission. Results from a self-check cannot be used as evidence in any case concerning suspected academic misconduct.
Documents for which the employee, student, or institution does not hold copyright must not be submitted to the plagiarism detection system. Only documents for which the student, employee, or institution claims copyright at the time of submission may be uploaded to the plagiarism detection system. Employees may submit documents to the plagiarism detection system for which students hold the copyright.
Uploads made by students in the My Uploads area are not stored in the system’s database of previously submitted assignments. The upload and the associated similarity report will therefore only be available within the student’s own area. Employees may choose to archive their uploads if they wish.

Employees must not use the plagiarism detection system to obtain access to data they wish to retrieve, such as previously submitted assignments at NTNU or other institutions.

Suspected academic misconduct

Suspected academic misconduct must be reported to the Department.
The Department will forward the case to:
- Section for Educational Quality and Learning Environment (Trondheim)
- Section for Education, Ålesund
- Section for Education, Gjøvik

See the page Cheating on Examsfor further information about suspected academic misconduct.

Contact

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

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