Victoria University now uses Urkund (by Ouriginal - https://www.urkund.com/) for the checking of originality and plagiarism in student’s assessment submissions to the Dropbox.

A test Dropbox is available in the Student Induction space. You can access your originality report via the navbar Assessments > Dropbox – Originality Check (after submitting your document to the dropbox).

Some things that Urkund (Ouriginal) can do:

• Detection and analysis of paraphrasing
• Ability of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) text in scanned documents
• Cross-language text matching
• Detection of character/text manipulation
• Author metrics – checking for consistency in student writing style (to combat contract cheating)

There is a link to a detailed guide below about what you can expect to see and how you can use it. There is also a handbook explaining academic integrity and plagiarism right here - Ouriginal_Plagiarism-Handbook_for_students.pdf

You can upload a document to the Student Induction space to obtain an originality check score indication before submitting to the unit dropbox in the unit you are taking.   When submitting an assignment in that dropbox, by default your document will be deleted and not indexed. However, when viewing the Originality Report, there is an option to “Opt-out”. It is very important that you do not select this option, or the following option “Do not delete my document". This will make your submission matchable against itself when submitting to another dropbox. A 100% match back to your first submission could occur.