# Detecting Plagiarism In History from Pasting Large Amounts of Code

**URL:** <https://forum.code.org/t/detecting-plagiarism-in-history-from-pasting-large-amounts-of-code/37405>\
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**Created:** [December 22, 2022, 2:31pm UTC](https://forum.code.org/t/detecting-plagiarism-in-history-from-pasting-large-amounts-of-code/37405 "2022-12-22T14:31:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![timothy.lee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df705f/32.png) [@timothy.lee](https://forum.code.org/u/timothy.lee)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2022, 2:31pm UTC](https://forum.code.org/t/detecting-plagiarism-in-history-from-pasting-large-amounts-of-code/37405/1 "2022-12-22T14:31:52Z")

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This is a feature request. It would be nice if there was some sort of flag in a particular [code.org](http://code.org) lesson or level for plagiarism. I know we can look at Version History, but I find that to be cumbersome, and I have to first suspect plagiarism. It seems like it wouldn’t be too hard for [code.org](http://code.org) to flag when all of a sudden a bunch of code ends up in a particular level from just being pasted in. There might be some situations where a student works in a remix and then pastes over to the lesson, but those could be dealt with on a case by case basis. Another option could be something like a “total time engaged” statistic so it would be obvious that a particular student couldn’t have done all that work in such a short time.

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**Author:** ![bhatnagars](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.code.org/bhatnagars/32/4919_2.png) [@bhatnagars](https://forum.code.org/u/bhatnagars)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2022, 4:40pm UTC](https://forum.code.org/t/detecting-plagiarism-in-history-from-pasting-large-amounts-of-code/37405/2 "2022-12-22T16:40:25Z")

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