PlagAware News and Announcements
PlagAware is constantly evolving to provide new sources, tools or features. In this section, we inform you about current developments around PlagAware, but also on developments in the field of plagiarism, plagiarism scan and plagiarism management.
03/12/2026
Interactive Report Overview Bar
The Report Overview Bar is a compact color-coded strip shown directly below the plagiarism percentage badge. Red marks unaccepted plagiarised passages, green marks accepted sources, and light gray indicates clean text. A blue rectangle shows which part of the document is currently visible in the text panel. Click anywhere on the bar to jump to that position, or drag the viewport rectangle to pan through the document continuously.
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03/12/2026
Export AI Detection Results in Report
The results of PlagAware's AI detection and writing style analysis can now be included in DOCX and PDF report exports. Enable the corresponding option when generating the export to add an AI analysis summary to your report document.
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10/22/2025
Administrator access to library texts and plagiarism scans
Administrators of a PlagAware license can now optionally grant themselves access to all library texts and plagiarism checks of all users within their license. This makes it possible to search for texts and scans submitted by a specific user and to review the associated metadata. The feature supports compliance workflows and administrative oversight and can be configured in the license administration settings.
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10/17/2024
AI detector and readability analysis
PlagAware now offers an AI detector that recognizes texts created by generative AI such as ChatGPT, Gemini or LLama based on typical AI language. The AI detector is included in the plagiarism check, so it is offered free of charge as part of the plagiarism check. In addition to AI detection, the text is subjected to a readability analysis using various metrics, which can help to detect stylistic inconsistencies within the text.
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09/23/2024
Write access for shared links
You can from now on grant write permissions to shared links (so-called "permalinks"). This allows persons to whom you have passed on the link to make changes to the linked plagiarism check. This includes both the rating of the sources and changes to the metadata, such as editing the comment. You can decide for yourself whether you want to grant read and write access to all persons with access to the link, to members of your organization or only to yourself.
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03/17/2024
Graphical usage statistics
Administrators of a PlagAware license now have the option to graphically display the evolution of PlagAware usage over time. You can also visualize the consumption of sub-licenses so that the largest user groups can be easily identified. We likewise display the predicted consumption of ScanCredits per contract term so that you can assess whether your volume license should be renewed before the end of the initial term.
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03/05/2023
Restricting mail addresses to the organization
Administrators of a Plagaware volume- or educational license now have the option to restrict new user logins to the mail address of their respective institution. This ensures that only members of the organization can log in to the managed license. The setting is also available for sublicenses, so that, for example, a student sublicense can be offered exclusively to users with mail addresses of the form "@stud.my-university.edu". for more information, see the License management guide.
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11/02/2022
Festlegen von Benutzereinstellungen durch Lizenzverwalter
Eine weitere Verbesserung für die Nutzung von PlagAware an Universitäten und anderen Organisationen: Damit sichergestellt ist, dass alle Plagiatsprüfungen auf den gleichen Einstellungen beruhen, können Lizenzverwalter ab sofort die Konfiguration der Plagiatssuchmaschine zentral für alle Benutzer der Lizenz vorgeben. Dies umfasst auch die Einstellungen zum Datenschutz, sodass etwa Löschfristen für Prüfungen und Bibliothekstexte umgesetzt werden können. Weitere Informationen hierzu finden Sie in der Anleitung zur Lizenzverwaltung.
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03/15/2022
Erweiterte Benutzerverwaltung und Sicherheitseinstellungen
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02/01/2022
Improved Side-by-Side View
We have revised and improved the side-by-side comparison of texts: From now on, the side-by-side view will highlight exact matches using a bold font. This will give you an even better idea of how the text was revised. Hence, the your assessment whether the tested text is actually plagiarized or not is greatly simplified.
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01/12/2022
Plagiarism Search Against Text Signature
We are improving data protection at PlagAware: From now on you can specify whether the entire full text should be saved in your library - or only the signature of the text. The signature represents a highly compressed and encrypted form of the text content. You can use this to identify plagiarism of texts without having to save the text to PlagAware.
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11/30/2021
Preserve Text Format During Plagiarism Scan
To make it easier for you to navigate the results report, we have revised our algorithms for normalizing the test text. Thus, section and page breaks will be preserved as far as possible. In the view settings you can decide whether the text (as before) should be displayed as a continuous section or in the original format.
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02/18/2021
New User Interface and Features for a Better Plagiarism Check
We are pleased to announce a completely revised user interface and numerous new improvements for an even more precise and meaningful plagiarism check. Over a period of almost a year, we have collected your feedback and incorporated your wishes into the redesign. On Sunday, February 22nd at 10am CET the time has come: PlagAware starts in a fresh design. Of course, all of your checks and settings are retained in full.
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07/15/2020
Resetting a Plagiarism Check
PlagAware allows you to rate detected sources. You might for example annotate that a source was cited correctly and should not be included in the overall assessment. Feeling you got lost? Restoring the initial state of your plagiarism check is only two clicks away: Try out the option "reset plagiarism check". You will find this option in the detail view of the plagiarism check in the tab "Revision".
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