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The Best Summer Reads To Unwind

Summer is here (or if you live in Stockholm, it was) and it can be hard to unwind from the hectic daily lives we usually lead. A great way to slow down your pace is to find a cozy corner and read a great book.  We have therefore gathered a list of personal favourites, selected by the team at Urkund, for your reading pleasure. 

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The Real Heroes

Forget Wonder Woman, Spiderman or Captain Marvel, it’s teachers who are the real superheroes. From long days to overcrowded classrooms and a low net income teachers need all the support they can get. 

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Our new interface is here

To celebrate the launch of our beta version of our new interface and its release in most markets, we interviewed one of our developers, Philip von Schirach, about how it came to be and what you can expect from it. 

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A resolution to stick to this year? Start using Urkund!

And become a leader in guaranteeing continuous quality of education. We’ve all been there, the goal setting and New Year’s resolution stress we all indulge in oh-so-happily come the New Year. And while you might not stop eating candy for the rest of your life, you actually CAN contribute to the quality of education at your institution. How?

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Brand new interface in the making

A new design for our analysis reports is being developed and rolled out in the months to come. Some of you have already seen the beta version. To further improve how our reports can help you as an educator, we’ve been working on a brand new user interface. More or less all the features you’re used to are still there, but they might look different. Don’t hesitate to try it out as it’s easy to switch back to the interface you’re used to. We have listened to our users and are working hard at making the look of Urkund easier […]

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eThink Education and Urkund team up to provide a fully-automated originality-checking software for Moodle users

eThink Education, world-class provider of the open-source Learning Management System (LMS) Moodle, is excited to announce a new partnership with Urkund, a leader in originality-checking software. With one of the smoothest integrations available, eThink clients can now get easy access to an anti-plagiarism software with test-winning accuracy directly in Moodle. Created and developed in Sweden, Urkund builds on the tradition of innovation in order to constantly stay ahead of plagiarism. Under the hood, machine learning algorithms have been fine-tuned for over 20 years to deliver industry-leading accuracy while maintaining an easy-to-use interface for the educator. Urkund is also the only […]

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URKUND PEPP-talks 2018

URKUND is looking forward to kicking off the new academic year with URKUND PEPP-talks. This will be our fourth annual conference on Plagiarism, Ethics, Pedagogy and Practices. This year’s conference will take place in central Stockholm at Spårvagnshallarna on 24th August. URKUND PEPP-talks is mainly aimed at universities and colleges but would be of interest to anyone dealing with ethics in education. The sign up page is now closed. Do you still want a seat? Contact frida.henriksson@urkund.com   Time and Place  Address: Konferens Spårvagnshallarna, Birger Jarlsgatan 57 A, Stockholm Date: Friday 24 August 2018 Time: From 08.30 to 15.45 followed by drinks and light snacks at Spårvagnshallarna. […]

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Dr. Mark Glynn summaries his talk for URKUND PEPP-talks

Dr. Mark Glynn, Head of the Teaching Enhancement Unit at Dublin City University (DCU), is one of several speakers at this year’s URKUND PEPP-talks (24th August in Stockholm). This is how he summarises his talk “Designing Plagiarism out of Assessment”: “Text matching – carrot or stick approach. Should we assume students are guilty and use the software as a stick or should we assume that they are innocent and use the software to teach them about academic integrity, and proper citation and referencing? This talk will outline 12 principles of academic integrity that we would recommend as an approach to […]

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A short interview with Thomas Lancaster, one of the speakers at URKUND PEPP-talks

Hello there Thomas! What can the participants expect from your presentation? I’ve been researching contract cheating, the behaviour where students get a third party to complete their assessments for them, since 2005. We know it’s a widespread problem, with 1 in 20 students thought to have outsourced their assessments at least once. What’s been fascinating me recently is the people working behind the scenes driving contract cheating. I’ve previously looked at the business models keeping essay mills running and now I’m looking at the people right at the end of the food chain, the academic writers. In my talk, I’m […]

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