Copyleaks: Teacher Scanning Tool
- Tyler Kron-Piatek
The Teacher Scanning Tool allows faculty to upload individual student documents to scan for plagiarism and detect AI. The following steps will show how to install the Teacher Scanning Tool into your course. If you are interested in using Copyleaks for the entire class, please take a look at the Create an Assignment tutorial.
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1 | Create a new Module in D2L. Title it Copyleaks Scanning or something similar. |  Highlighting the Add a module tool in D2L
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2 | Hide the new module by clicking the Eye icon underneath Settings to the right. |  Highlighting the module Visibility icon
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3 | Click on Add Existing Activities. |  Highlighting Add Existing Activities
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4 | Click on Copyleaks Teacher Scan Tool in the menu that appears. |  Highlighting Copyleaks Teacher Scanning Tool
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5 | A pop-up will appear saying “Generating new scan tool” with the Copyleaks C logo. |  Copyleaks Generating new scan tool
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6 | When finished, the pop-up will automatically close and a new link should appear in our module titled “Teacher Scanning Tool”. Click on it. |  Highlighting new topic added to the Module
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7 | We will be taken to a dashboard that says “Get started by uploading files”. To get started, click on Scan Documents in the upper-right. |  Highlighting Scan Documents button
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8 | The page will update and we can now click on Upload Files. |  Highlighting Upload Files button
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9 | When we do, our computer’s File Explorer will open up. From there, select the file or files you want to scan. In this example, we are using TheHistoryofComputers.docx (a completely AI generated document). |  Showing Windows File Explorer
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10 | Click on Scan in the lower-right to start the scan. |  Highlighting Scan button
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11 | The scan will take a few minutes or more, depending on the length of the document. |  Showing finished scan
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