Q1 - What is URKUND?
URKUND offers a fully-automated system for handling plagiarism.
- In short, the students send their documents to their faculty by e-mail.
- The documents are checked against three central source areas: Internet, published material and student material.
- If any document displays similarities with the content in the three sources, the system will flag it for possible plagiarism.
- An analysis overview is generated and sent by e-mail to the concerned faculty. The analysis overview is provided to the faculty in a simplified form, to determine if plagiarism has occurred.
Q2 - How Do I get an Urkund account?
Only faculty require an Urkund account which they can get by contacting IT Helpdesk
Q3 - What file formats are supported by URKUND?
URKUND supports the following file formats
.doc, .docx, .sxw, .ppt, .pptx, .pdf, .txt, .rtf, .html, .htm, .wps, .odt
Q4 - I have sent the wrong version of my document to my faculty/Professor. Is there any way for URKUND of stopping it so I can submit the correct version?
Unfortunately no. URKUND is completely automated and a document that has entered the system can not be stopped before it is delivered. It is suggested, that you inform your faculty in case of any such situation.
Q5 - My faculty has informed me that he/she hasn't received any document from me even though I have received a confirmation e-mail from URKUND.
Possible explanations:
1. You might have sent your document to a different faculty/Professor's analysis address. Check the address you entered in your e-mail.
2. Your faculty might have lost your document. Your faculty will however always be able to access your document through his/her personal web based inbox for URKUND mail available at www.urkund.com
3. An error might have occurred on the way -- between URKUND and your faculty. Show your confirmation e-mail to him/her and ask them to contact IT Helpdesk
Q6 - Do I have to install anything on my computer to use URKUND?
No, you juse need to be able to send e-mails with attachments.
