Introducing Pangram’s Plagiarism Detection

How Plagiarism Works Today

Up until the advent of ChatGPT, plagiarism was fairly straightforward. Students would copy stretches of text from existing sources: former students’ work, academic journals, or even straight from the internet, and paste it directly into their assignments. It was the quickest and easiest way to bypass the work required for a large assignment.

Then, in a flash, ChatGPT upended the status quo. Suddenly, there was a new, easier way to get quicker, more custom assignments. Students can put assignment instructions into a chatbot and within seconds receive a custom and unique piece of writing directly addressing the question. Suddenly, the labor of finding similar pieces of writing online or in other sources seemed less attractive.

However, this doesn’t mean that traditional plagiarism has gone away. As the market for AI detection has flourished, students may revert to traditional plagiarism as a way to evade being flagged for AI. Or, students may prefer to cheat using past essays that have been graded well rather than gamble on the outputs of an AI.

Either way, a traditional plagiarism detector is still a valuable tool in the academic integrity toolbox. That’s why today, we’re excited to announce Pangram’s Plagiarism Detection features.

Overview

New Plagiarism Toggle!

Pangram Plagiarism is a tool that searches a submitted document for copied text across millions of articles, websites, forums, databases, and other sources. Starting today, Pangram users will see a toggle in their dashboard to check a specific document for plagiarism. When toggled on, Pangram will scan each sentence in the document for matches online.

How it Works:

Plagiarism Results

Pangram searches the open web for matching documents, much like Google does when looking for documents that match whatever you searched for. Except in our case, our search is looking for direct matches of long stretches of text that indicate a student may have copied text from that source.

Like in the screenshot above, which contains three sentences directly copied from Wikipedia. Pangram will highlight those sentences, along with a direct link so you can see where those sentences appear on the web.

How does this fit into Pangram’s Academic Transparency Tools?

Pangram is committed to building a suite of academic transparency tools that combine high-accuracy AI detection, traditional plagiarism, and additional information such as writing process playback, common AI phrase detection, and more to provide educators with the tools they need to maintain a healthy and productive classroom.

Our plagiarism detection feature is just another tool in the toolbox.

Who can access Pangram Plagiarism?

For now, users with a paid subscription or organizational license are able to access the Plagiarism detection. Interested in giving it a shot? Learn more here or reach out at info@pangram.com