If you in connection with the assessment of written assignments and Master’s theses suspect that a student has not written parts of the submitted assignment, i.e. has copied text written by someone else without proper reference to the source, it is possible to check the assignment for plagiarism in the plagiarism detection system Ouriginal (formerly URKUND).
It is important that you do not regard the Ouriginal-analysis as proof that the student has committed plagiarism. It always requires an academic assessment to determine whether it is a matter of poor reference practice or plagiarism.
Please also note that a high similarity is not necessarily a sign of plagiarism. For example, students may have copied an identical exam question in their assignment, or they may have listed the same books and articles in their list of references.
If you need help reading the plagiarism report, please contact AU Library.
If you have reached the conclusion that plagiarism or another form of cheating has taken place, you must file a report to Educational Law, which handles such cases on behalf of the dean. You can read more about how exam cheating is reported and handled on AU’s staff page about cheating at exams.
In the new agreement on working hours at the Faculty of Arts, it has been determined that you will receive remuneration corresponding to four working hours for handling a report - however, 5 hours, if it concerns a master's thesis (Ref. Agreement on working hours, Faculty of Arts, valid from 1 January 2018).
To have the working hours registered in Vipomatic, you must send an email notifying that you have filed a report on exam cheating to:
You can ask the examination secretary at Study Centre Arts to enable Ouriginal for the specific exam: