After providing CourseKit to meet the needs of digital teaching applications in schools, Google earlier announced the launch of a new homework tool, which will help teachers confirm whether students' homework content is plagiarized.
According to Google's explanation, Assignments integrates GoogleDocs, GoogleDrive, GoogleSearch and other tools, which is basically an upgraded version of CourseKit introduced in the past.
This new function, combined with the application of search, artificial intelligence and other technologies, enables teachers to quickly check the homework submitted by students to confirm whether the content involves plagiarism, and in general application, it can also help to confirm whether the source of students' homework is correct. The whole confirmation and comparison process only takes 20 seconds, and the system can automatically generate report results, so that teachers can confirm whether students' homework needs improvement.
This tool can not only help teachers to quickly arrange homework through online tools, but also confirm whether students finish it on time and whether the handed-in homework needs to be modified or improved more efficiently, so that a single teacher can deal with the problem of correcting homework of multiple students more quickly and efficiently, and focus on the specific processing situation.
In fact, before Google launched this service, many teachers in the United States would compare the homework handed in by students through GoogleSearch to confirm whether the homework handed in by students was copied from the Internet. Therefore, this function is integrated into homework, and with the help of Google technology, the results of homework comparison can be more accurate, so that teachers can save more working time.
With the increasing convenience of network services, many students will refer to and quote network content to some extent when writing homework content. In addition to making students covet the convenience of completing their homework quickly through plagiarism, many students will inevitably make the actual writing content similar to the network information after referring to a large amount of network information, so students can actually use tools such as GoogleSearch to confirm whether their homework content lacks originality.
At present, the homework will be open for free testing in the form of testing, but after the official version is launched in the future, the scope of free use will be reduced to confirm at most three homework, unless the paid version of GSuiteEnterpriseforEducation starting from $4 per month is upgraded.
However, compared with Turnitin, a paper detection service platform that has accumulated as many as 65.438+billion student papers and is used by more than 6.5438+0.5 million educational institutions around the world, Google still mainly searches for information on the Internet in this content comparison detection, so there may still be limitations in comparison accuracy. However, judging from the fact that many students are used to searching information through GoogleSearch, perhaps Google still has a certain technological scale advantage.