Ephorus Manual for Instructors

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1 Ephorus Manual for Instructors

2 Introduction Dear instructor, Thank you for downloading this manual. It contains information about how to use Ephorus. Ephorus is being used to reveal and prevent possible plagiarism. If you have any questions or comments regarding this manual, please contact us: Content Login... 3 My documents... 4 The report... 5 Upload... 6 My account... 8 Support... 9 Contact... 9 Example student hand-in page

3 Login 1) To login browse to and click login. 1) Log in with your username and password. Your address is your username. 2) Forgot your password? Request your password here. 3) Click login. 3

4 My documents After the login you will enter your personal account with your documents. Uploaded documents are added to the list and processed. 1) Select another folder to see documents placed in batches or documents that have been submitted by students with a hand-in code. 2) Click the document title for the report. 3) To make the document invisible, you can remove the mark behind the document. Future documents will not be compared with invisible documents. By placing the mark again, the document will be visible and future documents will be compared with this document. 4) Use the navigation to browse the other pages with documents. 5) Upload a new document with this button. 6) The document is added and is being processed. This is indicated by the icon with the two arrows. Click this icon to refresh the status of the document. 7) When Ephorus finished processing the document, a percentage will appear. 4

5 The report The report comes in two parts: a summary and a detailed report. The summary shows what parts of the uploaded document have similarities with the sources found. The detailed report gives an overview of similarities per source found. 1) The summary shows the sources in an overview. Deselecting a source will affect the summary. This source will be left out then. Text is coloured red when Ephorus found similarities. 2) By clicking Detailed you can view the detailed report per source. 3) The red text is from the original document, the text on the right is the text Ephorus found at the selected source. The source text does not have to be exactly the same to be shown. If Ephorus has found no possible plagiarism the phrase Ephorus found no reference in the database will be displayed. 4) The detailed report provides an overview of the original text and the sources found. In this case 4 sources have been found, all sorted by percentage of similarities. 5) Select a source for a detailed report of similarities with that source by using the radio button. 6) The report can be viewed in three levels: strict, standard and compliant. You can select the preferred level by clicking it. 5

6 Upload In this menu you can upload several documents at once or use advanced upload options for a document. ZIP upload Use the ZIP upload if you want to upload a number of documents at once. Create a ZIP file yourself, containing all the papers you want to upload (do not use subfolders). 1) Provide a title for the ZIP upload. The title of the ZIP is the name of the folder Ephorus will create. 2) Select the ZIP file and click upload. An overview shows the individual documents that are uploaded from the ZIP. Select the folder to get an overview of the documents you uploaded in the ZIP. 6

7 Advanced upload With advanced upload you can provide specific properties for documents you want to upload to Ephorus. 1) At upload options you can specify how you want Ephorus to handle your document. You can specify two properties: the visibility and if the documents should be checked. With visibility you can indicate whether future documents should be compared with the document you want to upload now. You can also specify whether the document itself should be checked for possible plagiarism. This option is useful if you just want to add the document to your database as reference material. 2) Provide a title for the document you want to upload. 3) Click here to send the document to Ephorus. 7

8 My account In this section you can modify your personal settings. 1) At account information you can modify your name, address and preferred language. 2) You can set a new password here. 1) On the notifications page you can specify whether you want to receive an notification when a student hands-in a document. 2) Here you can specify from what percentage of possible plagiarism you want to receive reports by . 1) At request hand-in code you can request a new hand-in code. With a hand-in code students can hand-in their work through the Ephorus hand-in page. 2) Provide a title for the course and a hand-in code. 3) By clicking send an will be send to the Key User of your organization. He/she can create the hand-in code for you. 4) An overview of your current hand-in codes is provided here. 8

9 Support Here you can find support on how to use Ephorus. You can read the most Frequently Asked Questions and download manuals. Contact This section provides several options how to contact Ephorus. 9

10 Example student hand-in page This is where students fill in the hand in code and their details. The document will automatically be checked by Ephorus. 1) The student clicks on send and will receive a confirmation. He/she can print and save this confirmation. 2) The teacher will automatically be notified if there is a case of plagiarism. The report will be added as an attachment. 10