The short answer is yes. The longer answer involves this question: how are we developing students’ understanding of intellectual property, copyright, piracy, stealing, and a host of other issues that involve our desired outcome for students: being productive citizens.

To address the short answer:

1. I recommend having every student turn in an electronic version of each assignment that is a significant writing assignment (one page or more).
2. I recommend cutting and pasting ONLY suspicious lines, or maybe at most two or three sentences into one of the following search engines.

a) https://www.google.com/

b) https://pltext.com/

c) https://grammica.com/plagiarism-checker

What other tips and solutions can you share? Leave a comment!