Urkund / Ouriginal is an online text-matching tool which is available to students and staff of ATU Galway-Mayo as part of an overall institutional strategy to educate students about academic integrity.
Urkund / Ouriginal automatically checks student work against existing texts from three central source areas – the Internet, certain published material and their own archive.
There are basically four parts to the Urkund process.
Urkund a guide for ATU Students
(please note lecturer settings may vary, so some information may differ)
For example, has the student:
Urkund should also help in reducing instances of plagiarism and improve overall academic integrity. It is a formative tool intended to help students. Students are encouraged, but not required, follow up on the analysis it provides.
Please note the library cannot give access to Urkund.
Step by step instructions on how to read Urkund analysis can be found online from the Urkund website.