I discovered a student who copied text directly from Wikipedia and submitted it as his entry for a chapter commentary discussion topic. The student submitted an attached file instead of putting text in the Message box. I downloaded the file to read it and opened it using Mac's preview function to read the text. Some of the words were underlined in blue and I hovered my mouse over them and found they were links to wikipedia.org and about.com.
I did not have a specific note regarding plagiarism on the discussion board (I have it for the written assignments) but my instructions for the chapter commentaries mention providing evidence from the text and citing page numbers for direct quotes. I will need to start including that in the future.
It is too bad that our system's integration with Turnitin.com does not include the discussion board.
I am glad I discovered this after my last class before spring break, as I now have more than a week to recover from my disappointment.
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