Wageningen University could switch plagiarism software thanks to Yarado after all

Wageningen University could switch plagiarism software thanks to Yarado after all

Wageningen University & Research used Turnitin software system to detect plagiarism among its students. When the university decided to switch to another software provider, information from the Turnitin system had to be retained for compliance reasons. This was a big task given the amount of files that had to be converted.

Yarado was engaged and helped the university export, index and upload the files. The task was done successfully, took less time and no longer required human hands. So with the automated data export, hours of work were taken out of Wageningen's hands, especially since thousands of files were involved. No wonder they were very satisfied with the work done: "Yarado has played a fundamental role in reducing our operational costs. As an organization we now act proactively, rather than reactively," says Gerrit Bakker, product owner at MDT Multimedia Educational Support Centre.

What exactly Yarado has done for Wageningen University

What exactly did Yarado do for Wageningen University? A lot of cutting and pasting work awaited the university's staff, because each student's plagiarism scores had to be extracted from the old system and manually added to a new file. If WUR did not do this, plagiarism scores would have been lost, and for a university such a plagiarism check is an important task.

Before Yarado intervened, WUR staff had to go through several steps manually each time. First, they had to log into Turnitin to retrieve each student's plagiarism summary. Then this score had to be clicked and the new file updated to the information through the Turnitin interface. The new file had to be downloaded, saved and placed in a file server.

This was done automatically by software robots, and also around the clock. Within days, all plagiarism files had been sifted through and transformed into useful data in another file server. Thousands of files were thus not lost, but transferred to a new IT environment in preparation for a new plagiarism pool. This ensured the continuity of WUR's operational activities.