Q: How do I check students papers for plagiarism?

A: There is Plagiarism Checker Tool: http://www.plagiarismchecker.com/help-authors.php

You can download it for free: http://www.plagiarismchecker.com/

or Turnitin

https://turnitin.com/static/products/index.php

Turnitin is very powerful but it is not free.

Look for the plagiarism checking tools incorporated into the LMS platform you use. For example, you can create Safe Assignments using Blackboard.
SafeAssign checks all submitted papers against the following databases:

• Internet - comprehensive index of documents available for public access on the Internet
  
  
• ProQuest ABI/Inform database with over 1,100 publication titles and about 2.6 million articles from '90s to present time, updated weekly (exclusive access)
  
  
• Institutional document archives containing all papers submitted to SafeAssign by users in their respective institutions
  
  
• Global Reference Database containing papers that were volunteered by students from Blackboard client institutions to help prevent cross-institutional plagiarism.

Blackboard Help Articles

• About Safe Assignments
• Create & Edit Safe Assignments
• Grade & Manage Safe Assignments
• Understanding Originality Reports
• Direct Submit a Paper for Plagiarism Check

Top 10 FREE Plagiarism Detection Tools for Teachers

Google offers a Scholar Plagiarism Search tool to search " not only plagiarized phrases but also correct missing quotation marks and citations. This software scans your research paper, essay, coursework or dissertation completely from its database of internet resources, past exam papers, past essays, old dissertation papers and published journals."

Q: What 10 Edtech Tools Will Educators Use This Fall?

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Q: I need my online class students to watch "An inconvenient truth" documentary. It is available via Amazon and Netflix streaming for $3.99. How can we make it available to students without them spending money for a streaming service?

A: The question is related to copyright issues. There are educational licensing options but they generally are too expensive or intended for public screening (http://www.swank.com) .

To check where movies are available, use CanIstreamit (http://www.canistream.it/).

There is FAQ article by Peggy Hoon that contains most answers to questions about using copyrighted works in your teaching: http://www.knowyourcopyrights.org/bm~doc/kycrfaq.pdf

Read answer 4, part 2. My conclusion it is to ask students to pay for a movie rent for the screening assignment because of a conflicting situation with TEACH Act obligations.

Q: "Quality" in my online course is a challenge for me. How do I measure student outcome?

A: More artificial intelligence tools are coming to support education. Read about Cerego technology that used adaptive learning approach to enhance online learning.
I also learned that IAIED society journal, International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, is now indexed by ERIC - see http://eric.ed.gov/ and the publications at 
http://eric.ed.gov/?q=source%3A%22international+journal+of+artificial+intelligence+in+education%22

This will make IJAIED far more visible to a broader Education audience. Take advantage, collaborate!

Q: I'd like to use technology more to enhance my teaching. Are any webinars available that cover this topic?

A: SoLS Summer Tech Webinars: Summer Webinar Series: Please join The ASU SoLS Faculty   for a series of technology webinars!   We will discuss easy ideas for incorporating videos, usin...

Q: I enjoy interacting with students in f2f classroom by using clickers for example. How can I recreate this experience online?

A: It is challenging because the most powerful component of polling practice is a real-time feedback. In online classroom the polling still could be used to elicit information from students asynchronously to capture an overall mood of your virtual classroom. Look at some  tools that are available for free: 
TodaysMeet
Padlet
Poll Everywere
Polldaddy
Check the additional resources here.

Q: Do you know if any digitizing approach is available for group projects? In my class groups of students are assigned to build a repository of primary sources and then exhibit their collection.

A: The web publishing platform, Omeka, would work for creating narratives around digital collections. Read about the teaching with Omeka experiences here and here.