Introduction
Moss (for a Measure Of Software Similarity) is an automatic system for determining the similarity of programs. To date, the main application of Moss has been in detecting plagiarism in programming classes. Since its development in 1994, Moss has been very effective in this role. The algorithm behind moss is a significant improvement over other cheating detection algorithms (at least, over those known to us).
Links
https://theory.stanford.edu/~aiken/moss/
Resources
We have a custom python script that parses Moodle quiz xls files and submits to Moss, which can be found under the CS bitbucket account: