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Urkund / Ouriginal is plagiarism detection software used by ATU Galway-Mayo.

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.

How it Works

There are basically four parts to the Urkund process.

Source: https://www.urkund.com/about-urkund/

Useful Guides

Urkund Quick Start Guide

Urkund a guide for Students

Urkund a guide for Staff

Purpose

The aim of Urkund is to help students improve their academic writing techniques by highlighting similarities to other sources on the Internet and other students’ work enabling them to make decisions about the quality of their writing.

For example, has the student:

Relied too strongly on one source.
Paraphrased, summarized or quoted someone else’s work without referencing it.
Used no sources at all and thus their work is uncorroborated.

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.