Radboud University in Nijmegen is an educational institution with the goal of contributing to a healthy, free world with equal opportunities for all. The RU's mission is to focus on caring for each other and the world, and to be guided in this by scientific questions and societal challenges. However, it is important that student work is one's own, and for that you need an effective plagiarism system. When the RU wanted to switch systems, and this turned out to be a big job, they enlisted the help of Yarado.
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Radboud University employees have more time on their hands because of Yarado's help and did not have to process thousands of plagiarized documents by hand. In addition, the university saved licensing costs by using software robots to convert the documents before the deadline to do so.
For college students, it is nice that the data migration was successful. Thus, students keep access to their plagiarism scores.
It was time for Radboud University to review its software providers. When it reviewed its plagiarism detection system, it found that another program was now more attractive than the one it was working with at the time, Turnitin. Because they depended on Turnitin, there was no easy way to export plagiarism files and save the data. By using Yarado, Radboud was able to automatically migrate thousands of files before a certain deadline. Consequently, the work was done in a few days.
Migrating the files from one provider to another required manually extracting the files from Turnitin through each file's user interface. This is a time and resource-consuming process, and also took too much time to complete the migration in a timely manner. When this work would be done manually, as an organization you risk losing files, which can have serious consequences for your students. Additionally, had Radboud University kept the current software provider until everything was migrated, they would have had to pay double licensing fees.
Before Yarado started work at Radboud University, employees had to perform several standardized tasks in Turnitin throughout the day. First, a plagiarism file had to be retrieved from the system. Then, this file had to be modified by attaching the plagiarism score, the final assessment and faculty comments in Turnitin. Finally, the file had to be downloaded and uploaded to a server. With the help of Yarado, Radboud can now easily use its new plagiarism tool, which saved costs and reduced the risk of errors. But not only that: on an operational level, employees are happier. In addition, managers have begun to identify other opportunities, which will benefit Radboud University's organization.