Nov 2022
Initial funding

Funding received from the Australian Council of Deans of ICT to develop an innovative tool to monitor for academic misconduct through file-sharing and homework-helper sites. Then called the Upload and Plagiarise Alert SyStem (UPASS).

Jul 2021
Validation study

Validation study of the UPASS system to measure effectiveness at detecting content of various websites. Paper under review.

Aug-Nov 2021
Field Testing

UPASS field tested in 16 units across 32 assignments and 6 institutions (QUT, Swinburne, EIT, LaTrobe, ACU, RMIT).  UPASS received extremely positive feedback from our participants with 82% stating it helped maintain integrity, and 73% stating that UPASS helped identify matching assignments online. Paper under review.

Nov 2021
Inaugural Australian Academic Integrity Network Forum

UPASS project presented at the inaugural Australian Academic Integrity Network Forum 2021.

April 2022
Second funding round

Further support and funding recieved from the Australian Council of Deans of ICT in the ALTA small grants scheme 2022.

June 2022
UPASS is now AssignmentWatch

In preparation for broad release, UPASS renamed to AssignmentWatch.

Jul 2022
Website launched!

AssignmentWatch.com released, provided freely to Australian universities.

Jul 2022
Tracey Bretag Prize Winner!

AssignmentWatch wins the Tracey Bretag Prize for academic integrity. 

LinkedIn Post

Dec 2022
QUT Vice-Chancellor's Award Recipient

AssignmentWatch team receives a Vice-Changellor's Award for Student Learning Excellence