How Does it 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, in a way very similar to the one provided currently by Blackboard Learning System. As students submit papers, they are checked against SafeAssign’s comprehensive databases of source material. The papers will then be delivered to instructors through the Blackboard Learning System together with the originality reports, with the results of the matching process, attached to them. >> More on Creating SafeAssignments
- Instructors may upload papers directly with the Direct Submit feature, without student involvement. >>More on Direct Submit
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.
SafeAssign Originality Report
SafeAssign generates an Originality Report with the results of the Matching process.
>>How to Interpret SafeAssign Reports
September 25th, 2007 at 6:01 pm
I always wondered how SafeAssign generally worked. Thanks for the info.
September 26th, 2007 at 2:24 pm
Where can students find this product?
Can a student use this tool through blackboard? Can a student check his/her own work before submitting it to the instructor?