university have used computer programs to catch cheaters, students who plagiarize other s work. and the idea is to weed out cheaters before they get accepted. casey stegall live in los angeles with more, casey. good to see you. researchers at rutgers university recently polled about 200,000 college students across the country at roughly 40% of them admitted to using the internet to plagiarize their homework or entrance exams and now, there is this new computer program designed to combat the problem. they ve just taken a paragraph straight out of a sample essay. at colleges across the country. they sort of pieced the whole thing together. you can cheat, but you can t hide. and they believe that by doing that, we can t detect the plagerism. schools can can, thanks to
some schools have a new program to h help weed out the cheaters. casey stegall has more. hi, casey. the students hav to be care. also a study out of rutgers university where some 200,000 college kids across america were polled and 44% of them admit to using the internet to plagiarize their homework but the new program is cracking down on the problem. they have take and paragraph straight out of a sample essay and pieced the whole thing together. you can cheat but you can t hide. they believe that by do iting that we can t detect the plagiarism. but schools can thanks to a computer program many employ called turn in it. it scans a student s work and then cross matches it with the internet looking for the telltale signs of a copy and paste job. and it is not just written assignments and thesis papers. ucla s anderson school of business uses the software to