Urkund is the leading system for detecting and deterring plagiarism in Sweden's schools today. The system is appreciated by both teachers and students. Youths learn to surf the Internet at an early age and with today’s abundance of information it can be difficult and time consuming for teachers to manually check submitted essays for plagiarism. URKUND frees up valuable time that can be spent on teaching and other tasks instead.

Each teacher receives a personal e-mail address that ends with analys.urkund.se. Students then submit their work as attached files to this address. When it reaches the teacher it has already been checked against URKUND 's three source areas; the Internet, Published material and our Archive of previously submitted student documents. URKUND then presents the teacher with the information required to determine whether or not plagiarism is the case.

Since everything that passes through the URKUND system is a future source students can't borrow a text from a friend or relative at the same school or any school that also use URKUND . This creates a strong preventive effect since students know that every submitted document is checked.

With URKUND there is also a natural opportunity for discussion of plagiarism, citation techniques, source review and ethics which is valuable knowledge for future studies. With URKUND the school rapidly takes an effective approach on the problem of plagiarism and academic dishonesty.

Do like over 500 schools already do, use URKUND .