SimCheck (Plagiarism check)

SimCheck compares the uploaded document to text in documents from the following locations:

• The public Internet
• Scientific publications via Crossref (a platform facilitating the direct links to scientific publications by use of Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs)).
• Publications from other sources
• The UT database, which consists of documents that:
  • were submitted for Canvas or Blackboard assignments in which plagiarism detection was activated.
  • were submitted for Remindo tests in which plagiarism detection was activated.
  • were uploaded in the stand alone SimCheck or Ephorus application .
    Excluded from the search are documents that were only checked for plagiarism and have not been indexed in the database.

• Supported file types included: Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PostScript, PDF, HTML, RTF, OpenOffice (ODT), WordPerfect, and plain text. Zip files can be checked in the stand alone version of SimCheck, not in Canvas.
  Note: Images within the supported file types can’t be checked for plagiarism.
• A file can be up to 100 MB (zipfiles 200 MB) and must contain at least 20 words of text
• The maximum paper length permitted is 800 pages
• Zip files can't contain more than 100 files