THIS PLUGIN IS IN BETA VERSION AND NOT RECOMMANDED TO USE IN PRODUCTION SITES

Introduction

A plagiarism plugin for Moodle 2.x. The underlying anti-plagiarism engine is Moss. It can detect plagiarism in:

• Source code of C, C++, Java, C#, Python, Visual Basic, Javascript, FORTRAN, ML, Haskell, Lisp, Scheme, Pascal, Modula2, Ada, Perl, TCL, Matlab, VHDL, Verilog, Spice, MIPS assembly, a8086 assembly, a8086 assembly, MIPS assembly and HCL2.
• Plain text in pdf, doc, docx, odt and rtf files.

Prerequisite

• Moodle 2.0 or above
• antiword (optional)
• perl (Linux) or Cygwin with perl (Windows)

Download

Download it from https://github.com/hit-moodle/moodle-plagiarism_moss/archives/master

or use git:

git clone git://github.com/hit-moodle/moodle-plagiarism_moss.git moss

Installation & Upgrading

MOODLE_PATH means the root path of your moodle installation.

On Linux

1. If the directory MOODLE_PATH/plagiarism/moss/ exists, remove it.
2. Make sure the directory name of this plugin is moss. If not, rename it.
3. Put moss into MOODLE_PATH/plagiarism/.
4. Login your site as admin and the plugin will be installed/upgraded.
5. Access http://YOUR.MOODLE.DOMAIN/admin/settings.php?section=optionalsubsystems to enable plagiarism.
6. Access http://YOUR.MOODLE.DOMAIN/plagiarism/moss/settings.php to enable & setup.

On Windows

1. If the folder MOODLE_PATH\plagiarism\moss\ exists, remove it.
2. Make sure the folder name of this plugin is moss. If not, rename it.
3. Put moss into MOODLE_PATH\plagiarism\.
4. Login your site as admin and the plugin will be installed/upgraded.
5. Access http://YOUR.MOODLE.DOMAIN/admin/settings.php?section=optionalsubsystems to enable plagiarism.
6. Access http://YOUR.MOODLE.DOMAIN/plagiarism/moss/settings.php to enable & setup.

Usage

First, make sure the cron job of your moodle works well. Check http://docs.moodle.org/20/en/Cron for details.

In the activity setting page of any moodle module which supports plagiarism API (now, assignment only), there should be settings for Moss Anti-Plagiarism. Follow the inline help and enjoy it.

Links

Home:

• https://github.com/hit-moodle/moodle-plagiarism_moss

Bug reports, feature requests, help wanted and other issues:

• https://github.com/hit-moodle/moodle-plagiarism_moss/issues