Investigate

MoSS is a tool developed by Stanford which takes submissions of coding-style assignments and generates a measure of the similarity of the code produced (within the cohort of assignments submitted to it). MoSS submissions are made to the Stanford servers via command line, with academics using the tool often amassing a collection of bash scripts to aid them in checking their programming assignments for collusion.

Investigate is designed to make this process more user-friendly by providing a web portal for submitting jobs to the Stanford MoSS servers.

Once Investigate has been deployed (as described here), it should be ready to run without significant configuration.

Uploading Student Submissions

Editing Job Parameters

Running the Job

Viewing Past Jobs