I didn’t get the welcome screen, but they say that it’s not meant for plagiarism, but to help share work that has already been done and that is only taking up space on drives. According to it’s homepage blurb:
Facebook Docs is a library of schoolwork where anyone can contribute. Over 50,000 documents have been uploaded, including problems sets, poetry, lecture notes, and random funny stuff. Every year, millions of college papers are produced, and virtually all of them are just gathering dust on people’s hard drives. Too bad, because a lot of that is good stuff that other people would find useful. The point of Scribd is not to encourage plagiarism, but rather to help unlock the information on people’s computers by making it easy for people to share their creations.
This could be a very cool community learning tool and I would think that it’s easy enough for markers to do the leg work to check for plagiarism by searching this database as well.
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