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SafeAssign is a feature included within Blackboard that is useful in detecting and reducing possible cases of plagiarism by students. After enabling the SafeAssign option in Blackboard, students upload papers that are then checked against an institutional database, as well as various larger repositories for matching content.
This SafeAssign Video (13m, 55s) defines SafeAssign, demonstrates how to enable SafeAssign within Blackboard, and provides information for understanding and interpreting the results of the Originality Report.
How to Use SafeAssign in Your Assignments
You can now use SafeAssign plagiarism checking for any of your assignments.
- On the Create Assignment page, expand Submission Details.
- Select Check submissions for plagiarism using SafeAssign.
- Optionally, select one or both options:
- Allow students to view the SafeAssign originality reports on their submissions.
- Exclude all student submissions for this assignment from the institutional or global reference databases IF this is a draft of a final paper to be submitted or a portion of a final paper to be later submitted in class. All submissions to SafeAssign are submitted into a CMU database (institutional) and Global Database for comparison to subsequent submissions unless this box is checked.
- Complete the Create Assignment page.
- Click Submit.
The SafeAssign plagiarism detection service supports the following file formats: .doc, .docx, .pdf, .htm, .html, .rtf, .txt, .odt, and .zip. It is recommended that special characters be avoided when naming files for submission to SafeAssign (avoid using spaces, quotation marks, the pound sign, percent sign, or other special characters).
To learn more about how to interpret the results of SafeAssign findings, see SafeAssign Originality Report.