Bite Sized PD: Copyleaks - Plagiarism Checker w/AI Detection
TLDRIn this bite-sized professional development session, you'll learn about Copyleaks, the new plagiarism checker with AI detection now integrated into Canvas. The tool scans student submissions for plagiarism, including content generated by AI programs like ChatGPT and Bard. The session covers enabling Copyleaks for assignments, adjusting scan settings, and using similarity reports to identify plagiarism. Additionally, Copyleaks offers filtering options, AI detection, and even cheat detection. The video emphasizes using Copyleaks not only to catch plagiarism but also as a teaching tool to promote academic integrity and proper research practices.
Takeaways
- 📝 Copyleaks is a new plagiarism checker with AI detection, integrated into Canvas.
- 🤖 It can detect AI-generated content from platforms like ChatGPT and Bard.
- ⚙️ You can customize scan settings, including options to exclude templates or detect hidden characters.
- 🧑🏫 Copyleaks also supports cross-language detection, allowing teachers to detect plagiarism in multiple languages like French or Spanish.
- 🖼️ The tool can perform image-based text plagiarism checks and detect plagiarism in source code, such as HTML.
- 📊 Similarity reports provide detailed breakdowns, including identical content, minor changes, paraphrased content, and AI detection alerts.
- 🎓 Teachers can use Copyleaks as an educational tool, teaching students about academic integrity and proper citation practices.
- 👨💻 There are options to show similarity reports to students, helping them understand and improve their writing.
- 🔍 Copyleaks also detects sophisticated attempts to bypass plagiarism detection, such as hidden text in white font.
- 💡 The tool is similar to Turnitin and Unicheck but offers additional AI detection and customization features for a more thorough plagiarism check.
Q & A
What is Copyleaks, and how does it function?
-Copyleaks is a plagiarism detection software integrated with Canvas. It detects plagiarized content, including content generated by AI programs like ChatGPT and Bard, and identifies paraphrasing, image-based text plagiarism, and attempts to deceive detection software.
How does Copyleaks detect AI-generated content?
-While the exact mechanisms behind AI content detection aren't detailed, Copyleaks likely uses algorithms that recognize common patterns, tone, and language structure typical of AI-generated text, which is often more formal, repetitive, and lacks a human tone.
What are the key success criteria for using Copyleaks in Canvas?
-You know you've successfully learned to use Copyleaks when you can enable it for an assignment, adjust the scan settings, access similarity reports, and use the tool as a teaching opportunity to help students understand academic integrity.
What submission types are compatible with Copyleaks?
-Copyleaks works with 'Text Entry' or 'File Upload' submissions. Currently, it does not support Google LTI or external tool submissions directly, so students must download their Google Docs as files before submitting.
What are some notable features of Copyleaks?
-Key features include AI content detection, cross-language detection (scanning documents in languages like French or Spanish), the ability to exclude text templates, and cheat detection for hidden text or special characters.
How can teachers customize the Copyleaks scanning settings?
-Teachers can customize scanning by including or excluding AI-generated content, selecting specific online sources, adjusting sensitivity levels, and enabling cheat detection for hidden characters like white text or foreign language symbols.
How can teachers use Copyleaks as a teaching tool?
-Teachers can use Copyleaks as an educational tool by opening conversations with students about their similarity reports, explaining proper citation methods, and promoting academic integrity rather than simply penalizing students for plagiarism.
How can students access their Copyleaks similarity reports?
-If enabled by the teacher, students can access their similarity reports through Canvas by clicking on the submission details of their assignment. They will see a color-coded similarity score and can view the detailed report.
What does the similarity report show?
-The report highlights identical, paraphrased, and AI-detected content, as well as any suspicious formatting (e.g., hidden characters). It also ranks similarity levels, from the most plagiarized to the least, for a thorough analysis.
What considerations should teachers keep in mind when using Copyleaks?
-Teachers should explain the purpose of plagiarism detection, educate students on academic integrity, set clear expectations for original work, and guide students on how to read and use similarity reports to improve their research and writing skills.
Outlines
🔎 Introduction to CopyLeaks Plagiarism Checker
The speaker introduces CopyLeaks, a new plagiarism detection tool integrated with AI capabilities, available in Canvas. The session aims to educate on how to use CopyLeaks to detect plagiarism in student submissions, including AI-generated content from platforms like ChatGPT and Bard. The speaker shares their familiarity with such AI tools, emphasizing the importance of understanding their tone and structure to identify non-human writing. The agenda includes explaining CopyLeaks, enabling it for assignments, adjusting scan settings, accessing similarity reports, and discussing its use as a teaching tool.
📝 Setting Up CopyLeaks in Canvas
The speaker outlines the process of setting up CopyLeaks within Canvas. They explain how to create an assignment, select the appropriate submission type, and choose CopyLeaks as the plagiarism detection option. The speaker highlights the ability to adjust scan settings to include or exclude specific content, such as AI-generated content, cross-language detection, and online sources. They also discuss the option to exclude template content to avoid false positives and the feature to detect hidden characters or special characters used to deceive detection software.
📊 Accessing and Understanding Similarity Reports
The speaker discusses how to access and interpret similarity reports generated by CopyLeaks. They explain the color-coded alerts that indicate the level of plagiarism and describe the different types of alerts, such as AI detection and paraphrasing. The speaker emphasizes the importance of using these reports as a conversation starter with students rather than as a tool for punishment. They also provide a walkthrough of how to view and analyze the similarity report, including side-by-side comparisons and understanding the various types of plagiarism detected.
📖 Using CopyLeaks as a Teaching Opportunity
The speaker concludes by emphasizing the importance of using CopyLeaks not just as a plagiarism detection tool but also as a means to educate students on academic integrity. They suggest explaining the purpose of using a plagiarism checker, educating students on proper citation and paraphrasing, setting clear expectations, and discussing the consequences of plagiarism. The speaker also recommends using the similarity report as a teaching tool to help students understand and avoid plagiarism, and to promote a culture of academic integrity.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Copyleaks
💡AI Detection
💡Canvas
💡Similarity Report
💡Paraphrasing Detection
💡Cheat Detection
💡Academic Integrity
💡AI-generated content
💡Cross-Language Detection
💡Teaching Opportunity
Highlights
Introduction to Copyleaks, a new plagiarism checker with AI detection now integrated into Canvas.
Copyleaks can detect content generated by AI programs like ChatGPT and Bard, supporting teachers in identifying AI-written submissions.
The tool offers filtering options, such as the ability to exclude template content or detect hidden characters in white text used to deceive detection software.
Copyleaks can perform cross-language detection and identify plagiarism within source code, beneficial for programming assignments.
Instructors can enable Copyleaks during assignment creation by selecting the plagiarism option after choosing the online submission type.
Copyleaks' similarity reports provide detailed analysis, including percentage of identical, paraphrased, or AI-generated content, allowing instructors to review side-by-side comparisons.
The tool provides color-coded similarity scores, enabling quick identification of high similarity reports, with red indicating high levels of plagiarism.
Copyleaks can detect AI-generated content by analyzing certain text patterns and characteristics commonly found in AI-written text.
The tool can highlight various paraphrasing techniques used by students, providing instructors with insight into how text was altered.
Instructors can customize scan sensitivity and detection settings, and choose to include or exclude specific online sources for more accurate results.
Instructors can use Copyleaks as a teaching tool by sharing similarity reports with students and fostering discussions about academic integrity.
Students can access their similarity reports via Canvas, promoting transparency and helping them learn proper research and citation practices.
Copyleaks also provides AI detection alerts, signaling when content might have been generated by an AI, facilitating conversations between students and instructors.
Instructors can leverage the tool’s capabilities to monitor attempts to bypass plagiarism detection, such as using hidden text or special characters.
By setting clear expectations for original work and educating students on plagiarism, instructors can use Copyleaks to promote a culture of academic integrity.
