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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 Direct Submit Assignments
Creating Draft Assignments
Viewing Reports for Student-submitted papers
Viewing Reports for Direct-submit papers
Interpreting Reports
SafeAssign Instructor Manual

Resources for Students

Submitting a paper
Viewing Reports
Downloading Instructor Comments
SafeAssign Student Manual