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