Safe Assign

Mary Zedeck Instructional Designer Teaching Learning and Technology Center Seton Hall University

Service to protect originality of work
Supported and maintained by Blackboard
Aids in helping educators prevent plagiarism
Detects unoriginal content
Results are delivered within Bb
Creates educational opportunities
Student awareness of plagiarism
Importance of proper attribution and citation
Draft assignments

Internet
ProQuest ABI/Inform Database
Institutional Document Archives
Global Reference Database
Blackboard does not claim any ownership rights on the content submitted to SafeAssign

SafeAssignment
Instructor creates in Bb
Student completes assignment (submits paper)
Student chooses whether or not to add paper to Global Reference Database
Instructor and/or student receives Originality Report
Direct Submit
Instructors upload paper without student involvement
Paper is only added to Institutional Database
All databases are checked

Create SafeAssignment
Student completes assignment
Originality Report

Overall score
Indicator of what percentage of the submitted paper matches existing sources
Score is a warning indicator only
< 15% : a few quotes and common phrases or blocks of text that match other documents. Usually not plagiarized.
15% - 40% : extensive quoted or paraphrased material or they may include plagiarism. Most likely requires additional review.
> 40% : high probability that text in this paper was copied from other sources. Should be reviewed.

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Safe Assign

by Mary Zedeck on May 02, 2008

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