Plagiarism is a perennial problem for writing instructors. As an instructor you want to ensure that your students are not plagiarizing anyone's work. With the advent of the Internet, more and more material is available for students to access, and it is growing on a daily basis. If you find something that you may feel is not consistent with the student's normal production, you can search the Internet for it, and you may find the original source. However, this can prove to be a time-consuming task.
The most basic way to search for plagiarized material is to simply copy and paste the suspected sentence or paragraph into a search engine and see what comes up. This is often the only way for many of us to find plagiarized material. Sergey Butakov began development of a new block for Moodle called Crot. The block is intended as an anti-plagiarism measure and has two functions. The first function is that it will search local-level submissions to find possible matches. The second function...