S19-11-PlagiarismCheck.org

Software Profile

Number	S19-11
Product	PlagiarismCheck.org
Company	Address: 1st floor, 1 Cobden Court, Wimpole Close, Bromley, Kent, UK, BR2 Email: support@plagiarismcheck.org Phone:
Web-Site	https://plagiarismcheck.org/
Software-Type	Online, can be integrated with API, Canvas, Moodle and Google classroom
Costs (04.05.2020.)	For individuals: Light – 5,99 $ (20 pages, 0,30 $ per page) Standart – 9,99 $ (50 pages, 0,20 $ per page) Premium – 25,49 $ (150 pages, 0,17 $ per page) For organizations: Basic – contact sales Advanced – contact sales Pro – contact sales
Test Date	November 2018 – November 2019

Description

PlagiarismCheck.org presents itself as a plagiarism checking tool. It is operated by a company based in the United Kingdom and it has been on the market since 2011. Since around 2017 they are focusing on the B2B market. They state that they have more than 77,000 users in 72 countries. They use MS Bing for online searches and for the English language. The representatives claim they are able to do synonym detection. They provide three levels of institutional licenses.

Pros & Cons

PlagiarismCheck.org system found the most similarities in single source texts from Wikipedia articles, but has very low results in finding similarities in texts from online articles in English, Czech, Slovak and Turkish languages.
While viewing online results user can not switch between documents to see the results, need to refresh the page to see chosen document from the list.
It is hard to recognize which document is which from the list on the left in online report view.

Coverage results

Single source

Multi source

Usability results

Workflow process usability

Can upload and test multiple documents together
Auto-fill metadata for documents
The system uses original file names for report
There are no word limit for the testing document
The system display text in the chosen language only
The system can process large documents (for example, a bachelor thesis)

Result presentation usability

Reports are downloadable
Results are saved in the user’s account and can be reviewed afterwards
Matched passages are highlighted in the online report
Matched passages are highlighted in the downloaded report (offline)
Evidence of similarity is demonstrated side-by-side with the source in the online report
Evidence of similarity is demonstrated side-by-side with the source in the downloaded report
Document formatting is not changed in the report
Document page numbers are shown in the report
The report is not spoiled by false positives