How long will my purchased ScanCredits be valid in Plagaware?

The license administrator in PlagAware has several important functions. User access management, ScanCredit distribution and the exploitation of the system are under his or her management. Administrators make sure that users abide by all the conditions that are set, such as limitations on the number of scans performed per day or month and active monitoring of the usage of the license. They also work to protect the licensing agreement and may need to reach out to PlagAware’s support centre when problems come up.

When a teaching license surpasses the predetermined usage in PlagAware, there will be a block to carrying out any more plagiarism checks until the beginning of the next billing cycle or will request that other ScanCredits be purchased. Exceeding the limits will create notifications for both the user and the administrator of the license, thus necessitating a suspension of use and reassessment of the license agreement. In some situations, users may be required to cross-grade their teaching license to that level which permits excess usage due to an increase in students and assignments.

PlagAware may identify text produced solely by AI applications like ChatGPT whose text has copied content available on the internet. Since many AI-powered applications generate texts based on information contained in already existing public materials, overlaps in already text submitted may be red-flagged for plagiarism. Nevertheless, as long as the text produced by the AI is an original one, and has no reference from any available sources, there is a high chance that the document will not pass through the copy-scan in PlagAware.

PlagAware utilizes many different sources while carrying out a plagiarism check including the internet, research hubs, already uploaded papers in the system, and the original text. It checks against articles, journals, books, and other content that has been crawled by some search engines. On the contrary, PlagAware is privacy-friendly and avoids entering any private or paid-for content management systems unless the user has plugged those into the tool. Further, users can upload their documents to check for similarities with other documents in the internal database if they would like to.