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SafeAssign: Plagiarism Prevention
What is SafeAssign?
SafeAssign is a plagiarism prevention service offered though Blackboard. This service helps educators prevent plagiarism by detecting unoriginal content in student papers. In addition to acting as a
plagiarism deterrent, it also has features designed to aid in educating students about plagiarism and importance of proper attribution of any borrowed content.
How does SafeAssign work?
SafeAssign can be used in two ways:
- Instructors can set up SafeAssignments in their Blackboard courses and let students submit papers to these assignments. As students submit papers, they are checked against SafeAssign's comprehensive databases of source material. The papers will then be delivered to instructors through Blackboard together with the originality reports, with the results of the matching process, attached to them.
- Instructors may upload papers directly with the Direct Submit feature, without student involvement.
Matching Process
SafeAssign checks all submitted papers against the following databases:
- Internet - comprehensive index of documents available for public access on the Internet
- ProQuest ABI/Inform database with over 1,100 publication titles and about 2.6 million articles from '90s to present time, updated weekly (exclusive access)
- Institutional document archives containing all papers submitted to SafeAssign by users in their respective institutions
- Global Reference Database containing papers that were volunteered by students from Blackboard client institutions to help prevent cross-institutional plagiarism.
Originality Report
SafeAssign generates an Originality Report with the results of the Matching process.
Resources for Instructors
Creating SafeAssignments [PDF]
Creating Draft Assignments
Interpreting Reports
SafeAssign Instructor Manual [PDF]
Resources for Students
Submitting a paper
Viewing Reports
Downloading Instructor Comments
SafeAssign Student Manual [PDF]
