What is Safe Assignment?
Safe Assignment is an anti-plagiarism service built into the Blackboard course management system. If you create an assignment as a "Safe Assignment", students' work will be submitted to the service to check for suspected plagiarized content. The SafeAssign server produces an "originality report" which indicates how much of the submitted work appears to have been copied from other sources. The SafeAssign server checks work against an internal database (CFCC), against a global database (works submitted by students at other institutions using SafeAssign), and against other Web-based resources.
A few things to keep in mind
Before using Safe Assignment, please keep in mind a few things:
- Keep in mind that if a work has not been digitized and is not available online, it will not be in the database. Therefore, documents can be plagiarized and still not show as such with SafeAssign.
- Once a document has been submitted to the database, any resubmission will result in a 100% match, so know when to submit as a draft and when to submit as a final document.
- Use Safe Assignment as one tool to determine if work was plagiarized, not as the only tool. This resources is a text-matching tool and you should examine suspect documents closely before determining that students have plagiarized, whether intentionally or not.
Steps for using Safe Assignment
Let's get started using Safe Assignment. Select the links below to find out how to create a Safe Assignment, how to view originality reports, how to download assignments, and how to grade Safe Assignments.
- Creating a "Safe Assignment"
- Viewing Originality Reports
- Downloading Safe Assignments
- Grading Safe Assignments
- Direct Submission to Safe Assignment
Use this option when you did not set up your assignments as SafeAssign. You can still use Safe Assignment to directly submit documents to obtain an "Originality Report". - How to turn Safe Assign on