Assignment
Watch
Protect your assignments by automatically monitoring for content online.
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How it works
AssignmentWatch works by automatically monitoring for your assignment content online.
1. AssignmentWatch submission
Complete the submission form and upload your assignment details.
2. Automated monitoring
AssignmentWatch will automatically monitor for your assignment.
3. Notification
If matching content is found, you will be sent a notification.
Meet our team
Edmund Pickering
Edmund received his PhD in mechanical engineering from the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in 2018. He is a research fellow in the QUT Center for Biomedical Technologies, where his research interests are in tissue engineering, biomechanics, and mechanobiology. Edmund also maintains a second interest in acadmic integrity. He is an associate fellow the the Higher Education Academy and is a member of the Australian Academic Integrity Network.
Sam Cunningham
Sarah Dart
Sheona Thomson
Sheona is Strategic Lead, Assessment and Academic Integrity within the Learning and Teaching Unit, and Senior Lecturer in architecture the Faculty of Engineering at the Queensland University of Technology. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a member of the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia. Her research areas include academic integrity and curriculum and assessment design.
Caslon Chua
Caslon received the B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines, in 1988, 1993, and 1999, respectively. He is the department chair of Computing Technologies in the School of Science, Computing and Engineering Technologies at Swinburne University of Technology. His research interests focus on data analytics, security and human computer interaction. At the core of Caslon`s work is his involvement in analytics and security research, determination for innovation, and excellence in educational practice.
Rick Somers
Collaborative research
AssignmentWatch is a collaborative project between researchers at the Queensland Univeristy of Technology and the Swinburne University of Technology with funding and support from the Australian Council of Deans of ICT.
the speed with which uploaded assignment contact [sic] was identified [by AssignmentWatch] meant that I successfully had several of the assignment questions that were posted [online] removed prior to answers being uploaded
AssignmentWatch User
Instead of the 'Police' approach (detecting the misconduct after it has happened and penalizing students), I was able to use the 'Prevention' approach (eliminating or reducing the opportunities to cheat through early detection of potential uploads)