For students who wait till the last minute to complete an assignment or are having a hard time figuring out what to write about, they can easily find essays related to their topic and are often tempted to borrow from the work of others, some go even further and just submit the whole essay as their's. Colleges and Universities are using websites created to help filter through papers and determine if it's plagiarized or not, that is the most commonly used tool by schools, also the teacher can go through the paper and realize obvious signs that let them know the paper has been plagiarized e.g (forgetting to reformat the paper). Teachers are also asking students to turn their papers into a website that also checks for plagiarism.


http://www.pcmag.com/slideshow/story/262232/how-students-use-technology-to-cheat/1#fbid=zHg-g9iENER
http://www.dustball.com/cs/plagiarism.checker/
https://turnitin.com/static/index.php
http://www.plagiarism.org/