copycatch has checked 7.6 million exam submissions at open university

To check students are working in a fair and academically appropriate manner, The Open University uses Elute CopyCatch to detect potential cases of plagiarism in work that is submitted for assessment.

CopyCatch compares work submitted by one student with assignments submitted by all other students on the module (as well as previous presentations of the module where appropriate).

CopyCatch is used to check for cases of collusion and/or the use of an assignment that has been made available in a number of ways. Copycatch produces ‘similarity’ reports between matched pairs of scripts.