Links for Staff

Guidelines for UNSW Faculties and Schools on Student Plagiarism

For guidelines on managing plagiarism, see: https://www.gs.unsw.edu.au/policy/documents/studentacademicintegrityandmanagingplagiarismguidelines.pdf

For further information on the above strategies see Reducing Plagiarism at UNSW Teaching Gateway website.

Referring students to the Learning Centre

For assistance with the skills needed to avoid plagiarism, students can attend workshops and/or they can make an individual appointment with a Learning Adviser or Writing Assistant.

The Learning Centre offers workshops on avoiding plagiarism each Semester.
For an individual consultation, please email Dr Sue Starfield, the Director, s.starfield@unsw.edu.au who will arrange for an individual student consultation.

Useful Links

Minimising Plagiarism: Centre for the study of higher education Melbourne University
Provides a highly detailed discussion about all aspects of plagiarism (definition, detection, research etc) and a variety of online resources. Of particular interest is the section: ‘36 strategies to minimum plagiarism’, which provides a broad range of ‘low-tech’ anti-plagiarism strategies for teachers (downloadable as pdf).

UNSW Course Outline Template
The Committee on Education has prepared a template for Course Handouts at UNSW. It is intended as a guide for the preparation of the handouts that are to be distributed to students enrolled in any course. Available from the Teaching Gateway UNSW website.

VirtualSalt: Anti-plagiarism strategies for teachers.
This site features numerous strategies for teachers confronting plagiarism. The site offers a detailed 3 step-program (‘awareness’, ‘prevention’, ‘detection’) to reduce plagiarism.

Uses of Turnitin
This UNSW TV video features Andrew Chambers presenting a short case study on uses of Turnitin in Blackboard 9.

Setting Up Turnitin Submission Boxes
This UNSW TV video tutorial demonstrates how to set up and edit Turnitin Submission Boxes, how to check the results of the originality assessments and how to download student assignment submissions.

TELT TurnItIn Support
From Technology Enabled Learning and Teaching, this site offers support to the teaching community of UNSW.

Turnitin™
Comprehensive homepage for the online similarity detection software. For further information, a Turnitin™ tour is available.