Plagiarism quiz

Plagiarism guidelines for Civil and Building Engineering Students.

This project will attempt to find a better way of getting students to truly understand plagiarism and how to reference other people's work properly. Plagiarism is obviously becoming a big issue in many Departments in Loughborough and many universities throughout the UK.

Consequently there is a need to develop an interesting and interactive online tool with lots of examples from which the students can work through. It also very much needs to be combined with an online quiz or test facility which can be incorporated into a coursework component of a PART A module, ideally something like the CVA001 Communications module in 1st semester.

Work required:

• Analysis of Loughborough University’s plagiarism guidelines

• Liaise with the University academic librarians and the University’s Copyright Advisory Service

• Development of questions that will guide students through worked examples of plagiarism and correct referencing in practice

• Analysis of web based solutions to publishing the questions online, possibly through incorporating with interactive features in enhanced Learn, such as assignments/quizzes.

Progress: 100%

Analysis of Loughborough University's plagiarism guidelines and resources completed.
Development of 53 questions, combining resources from around the world.
Learn quiz completed and is live for students.

Outstanding actions:
Begin negotiations on the agreement gained to develop the quiz in QMP for students in the future.
Develop an evaluation strategy