Plagiarism Detection with CopyCatch Gold

Introduction

Copycatch Gold is a product in the CFL Software Development tools range, whose aim is to provide effective detection of plagiarism. Copycatch identifies essays that are similar in wording to one another, highlighting work that needs to be examined more closely for collusion. A free version of Copycatch Gold was made available to the university sector in June 2003, a copy of which is available for download below with associated training materials. The free version is a fully operational program with no time or usage limits and is designed to be easily used on a one-to-one basis, in the classroom or to monitor large groups. For further information about Copycatch Gold, please see http://www.copycatchgold.com.

In order to run CopyCatch Gold, you need to download and install the Java Runtime Environment, which can be installed onto your computer.

Once the Java Runtime environment has been installed, CopyCatch Gold can be downloaded by clicking on the following link.

Download CopyCatch Gold

Download Training Materials (Zip File)

Further information on Copy Catch Gold (External Site).

Please note that whilst this software is available for download from the CEBE Web site, CEBE are not able to provide technical support for its installation and execution.