alice-teacher Idea For Plagiarism Detection Feature

[Ann Cunningham]

Brilliant!  I like it!
Ann Cunningham
Computer Science Teacher
Fine and Applied Arts Department

Northbridge High School
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On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 12:50 PM Barnum, William <wbarnum at elmhurst205.org>
wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> I had a suggestion for a plagiarism prevention feature in Alice3.
>
> What if whenever a new program was created, it would mark the file with a
> piece of metadata that was easily checkable in the Alice IDE?
>
> For example, if I created a program under my login (ie. BBarnum) on
> 12-19-2019 at 8 hours 45 minutes 3 seconds and 431 milliseconds, the code
> could look something like 0845030431BBarnum
>
> When the file name was changed or resaved, the original stamp would stay
> the same.
>
> As a teacher, I could look and see the original file was created by the
> user BBarnum. Even in classrooms where everyone was using the same
> username, it is unlikely that they would be creating the file during the
> same millisecond.
>
> Bill
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