Plagiarism checker, and the behavioural signals a similarity score misses
A traditional plagiarism checker compares submitted text against a database of existing sources and returns a similarity percentage. Learnaway does something different and complementary: it watches how a piece of work was actually written, so it can flag pasted or AI-generated submissions that have no matching source to compare against at all.
Covers the gap a similarity score leaves
Freshly AI-generated text usually has no matching source, so a similarity-based plagiarism checker returns a clean 0%. Learnaway looks at the paste event and typing pattern instead, which don't depend on the text existing anywhere else.
No source database required
Learnaway never compares your students' work against other documents. It reads timing metadata only, so there's nothing to upload to a third-party index and no student writing leaves your control.
Explainable, not a percentage
Instead of an opaque similarity score, every flag cites a concrete data point: a paste size, a typing rhythm, a submission time, something you can actually discuss with a student.
Works alongside your existing checker
Most schools keep a similarity checker for citation and source-matching, and add Learnaway for the paste-and-AI cases that fall outside what similarity checking was built to catch.
Frequently asked
- Does Learnaway check text against other sources, like Turnitin?
- No. Learnaway doesn't run source-matching or similarity checking at all. It's a behavioural layer that reads how the work was written; keep your existing plagiarism checker for citation and source comparison.
- Can Learnaway replace our plagiarism checker?
- Not directly, and we wouldn't recommend it. Similarity checking and behavioural analysis catch different problems. Most schools run both: a plagiarism checker for source-matching, and Learnaway for pasted or AI-written submissions that have no source to match against.
- Why would a submission pass a plagiarism checker but still be flagged by Learnaway?
- Original AI-generated text has no existing source, so a similarity checker correctly reports 0% plagiarism. Learnaway looks at the writing process instead, and a large paste with no typing beforehand is still a clear, explainable signal regardless of the similarity result.