Can a student commit self-plagiarism?

Can a student commit self-plagiarism?

Self-plagiarism is committed when a student submits the same (or updated) document to an assignment enabled for plagiarism by a different instructor; regardless in which course the assignment is given. In such cases, the receiver (instructor) can choose to exclude a source using the Sources tab in the relevant report so that it is not considered plagiarism.

A student cannot commit self-plagiarism if they submit a document several times to any assignment enabled for plagiarism by the same instructor.

The recommendation is that only one instructor enables the plagiarism tool for all the related assignments.

It is possible for a document that has ‘self-plagiarism’ to have less sources than you might expect it to. This is because Ouriginal has found the self-plagiarised document as the main source, and will therefore not look further for some of the text. If you want to do a rerun of the plagiarism scan, you will have to request deletion of both documents, and then re-upload it to have it scanned again. Please contact Teaching & Learning support to help you with this.

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