As a lecturer, you can help your students avoid plagiarism by making them aware of:
Student administrative staff can contact Education Law (UJ) on issues of a legal/educational nature. UJ handle issues relating to any legal complaints the university receives in the educational sphere and deal with cases of exam cheating, etc.
If, as a lecturer, you encounter plagiarism, you can obtain help on what to do from Educational Law. They, amongst other things, have produced this page about what to be aware of when you have an exam.
If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to contact the liaison librarian associated with your field, who will be happy to assist you with your questions.
Alternatively, you are always welcome to contact your local library in AU Library.
Stopplagiat.nu is a web tutorial for students on plagiarism. It has been made in a collaboration between Danish research libraries and lecturers from the University of Southern Denmark, University of Copenhagen and Aarhus University.
If your students cite the source of any material they use, and manage all references in their written work correctly, they will avoid plagiarism.
Read more on reference management and how your students can, for example, make use of a tool for inserting citations and creating bibliographies.
Students can use stopplagiat.nu/en to learn more about what plagiarism is and how to avoid it.
Plagiarism is a broad concept, and on the following pages from AU, it is explained what is considered exam cheating.
Originality is a licensed system for checking for instances of plagiarism in student assignments and exams. It is available to all lecturers at AU.
