How to use the plagiarism detection software MyDropBox

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How to use the plagiarism detection software
MyDropBox

• Bernadette Lynch MGT1000 semester 1 2007

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Name your assignment using the assignment naming
convention presented below this is also
available on your Study Desk

• When naming the file to be submitted as your
  assignment, the file name should include
• 1. Your family name, student number, course code,
  and assignment number (eg smith_0050012345_mgt1000
  _a1.doc)

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Go to your MGT1000 Study Desk
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Click on the assessment organiser
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You will end up here. There will be additional
folders. Click on the plagiarism detection
Software icon
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Write down the join code as you will need it later
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Click on the MyDropBox Plagiarism Detection
Software
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You will need to create your profile. Click on
the create profile hyperlink.
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Fill out the fields as directed. 1) Use your
email address as your login. 2) You need to
create your own password and it needs to be 6
characters long.
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Fill out your address and phone number. At the
bottom of the page include the join code you
noted from the Study Desk
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Remember, this is your join code from your study
desk
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Hit the submit button and you have created
yourself a profile.
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Enter your email address as your login and the
password you created
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Click on the MGT1000 icon
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Click on the submit button for assignment 1 the
Case Study Essay
Submit button
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Enter the assignment title using the assignment
naming protocols from the study desk
Assignment File Naming Convention When naming the
file to be submitted as your assignment, the file
name should include 1. Your family name,
student number, course code, and assignment
number (eg smith_0050012345_mgt1000_a1.doc)
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Browse for your assignment ensuring your
assignment has been named using the assignment
naming protocols
Assignment File Naming Convention When naming the
file to be submitted as your assignment, the file
name should include 1. Your family name,
student number, course code, and assignment
number (eg smith_0050012345_mgt1000_a1.doc)
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Hit the submit button
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The time required to process assignments is
variable anything from 10 minutes to overnight
depending on the amount of traffic
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You can see the assignment upload is completed as
this page says the paper was submitted
successfully
smith_0050012345_mgt1000_a1.doc
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You can also see you have one assignment listed
as completed
smith_0050012345_mgt1000_a1.doc
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To see your report click on the report icon
smith_0050012345_mgt1000_a1.doc
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Your report

• This will give you an overall score of the
  amount of material that has come from other
  sources.
• It will list suspected sources
• It includes a window containing your assignment
  with all matching sentences marked in different
  colours

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Scores over 40

• You need to check your report and see if you have
  correctly cited all the matched material.
• You may get quite a high score of matched
  material e.g. 30
• Do not panic
• Your score may be inflated because you included
  your coversheet and list of references these will
  be treated as matched rather than original
  content
• Whatever your score, go through your report and
  see what needs to be changed and change it as
  required.

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Then what?

• Keep reworking your paper and checking it with
  this software until you have a good plagiarism
  free paper.
• Then submit it at the USQ Study Desk and submit a
  hard copy version.