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The intention has always been to implement <secret text=\"The examiner and the external examiners alone decide whether an exam should be reviewed further. Ukrund only identifies whether a thesis, or a part of it, could have been copied.\">mandatory plagiarism checks <\/secret>as part of this process,\u201d says Asbj\u00f8rn Jessen, the head of UCPH\u2019s Data &amp; Systems, and a section head with University Educational Services.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Urkund is a user-friendly system and the reports it produces are more useful than the ones from the other systems we looked at<\/p>\n<p class=\"quotee\">Asbj\u00f8rn Jessen<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2>User-friendly<\/h2>\n<p>Until now, formal plagiarism checks have not been mandatory for master\u2019s theses, unlike other types of exams. This has been due to the fact that the university\u2019s on-line examination system was unable to do so, Jessen says.<\/p>\n<p>Urkund changes that.<\/p>\n<p>According to Jessen, Urkund was chosen because its use is widespread among the external examiners and faculty at the Danish universities KU works with.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike them, we think Urkund is a user-friendly system and that the reports it produces are more useful than the ones from the other systems we looked at,\u201d Jessen says.<\/p>\n<h2>More hits, but only on the surface<\/h2>\n<p>Compared with the current system, Ukrund will be able to find more instances of plagiarism, just as it can be used to search for specific things. Its reviews, however, will still only be cursory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore thorough comparisons would have required a more advanced system and that would have made it more complicated to use. 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Ukrund only identifies whether a thesis, or a part of it, could have been copied.\">mandatory plagiarism checks <\/secret>as part of this process,\u201d says Asbj\u00f8rn Jessen, the head of UCPH\u2019s Data &amp; Systems, and a section head with University Educational Services.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Urkund is a user-friendly system and the reports it produces are more useful than the ones from the other systems we looked at<\/p>\n<p class=\"quotee\">Asbj\u00f8rn Jessen<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2>User-friendly<\/h2>\n<p>Until now, formal plagiarism checks have not been mandatory for master\u2019s theses, unlike other types of exams. This has been due to the fact that the university\u2019s on-line examination system was unable to do so, Jessen says.<\/p>\n<p>Urkund changes that.<\/p>\n<p>According to Jessen, Urkund was chosen because its use is widespread among the external examiners and faculty at the Danish universities KU works with.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike them, we think Urkund is a user-friendly system and that the reports it produces are more useful than the ones from the other systems we looked at,\u201d Jessen says.<\/p>\n<h2>More hits, but only on the surface<\/h2>\n<p>Compared with the current system, Ukrund will be able to find more instances of plagiarism, just as it can be used to search for specific things. Its reviews, however, will still only be cursory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore thorough comparisons would have required a more advanced system and that would have made it more complicated to use. That was something we wanted to avoid,\u201d Jessen says.<\/p>\n<p>One example of what such systems can do is the university\u2019s system for reviewing doctoral dissertations. Reviewers can use the system to compare it with all academic texts that might be relevant to a given dissertation. Doing so, however, it complicated.<\/p>\n<p>The main motivation for seeking a replacement for Ephourus, the previous comparison system, was that its developer had been bought out. As a result, the university was unable to reach an agreement with that provided satisfactory service guarantees for Urkund, and for the latest version of <secret text=\"The university-wide computer network, used for communication between students and instructors\">Absalon<\/secret>, the school\u2019s computer system.<\/p>\n<h2>What they get<\/h2>\n<p>The screendumps below show the reports Urkund draws up for examiners and external examiners.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"Image","image":{"ID":47536,"id":47536,"title":"Slut med at kunne plagiere specialet foto01","filename":"1.png","filesize":69190,"url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/1.png","link":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/slut-plagiere-specialet\/attachment\/1\/","alt":"Screendump af oversigtsrapport fra Urkund til censor og eksaminator","author":"8","description":"Screendump af oversigtsrapport fra Urkund til censor og eksaminator","caption":"Ovenfor ses et screendump af den oversigtsrapport, som censor og eksaminator modtager, n\u00e5r der er afleveret en opgave i universitetets digitale eksamenssystem 'Urkund'. 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