Case Study: NSS improves plagiarism detection for student contest essays with Copyleaks API

NSS cuts plagiarism checks from months to days with Copyleaks

The National Space Society (NSS) faced the challenge of manually checking thousands of lengthy student essay submissions for its annual space contest for plagiarism, a process that took judges months to complete. To scale integrity for the global contest, NSS needed an automated solution and chose to integrate the Copyleaks API into its awards management platform.

By implementing the Copyleaks API, NSS established an automated "Suspect Score" to instantly flag submissions for review. This solution reduced processing time from months to days; in 2023 alone, Copyleaks scanned 4,567 entries and identified 1,894 plagiarized works, a level of oversight impossible to achieve manually.

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