Students using Wikipedia to get zero in Oman

T TV Wednesday 15/May/2019 16:36 PM
By: Times News Service

University professors in Oman have said that students using Wikipedia in assignments can expect a zero grade.

Dr. Saqib Ali, at SQU said, "Any student who is caught plagiarising information from Wikipedia or any other site will straight away get a zero on that assignment."

"If they ask about using Wikipedia, we will tell them that this is not acceptable." -Al Mahanad Al Badi, Mussanah College of Technology (Use this with for the quote card)

Detection is based on software and rigorous training for teachers to detect these cases of infringement.