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SafeAssign is a plagiarism detection service, offered by Blackboard.  This service helps instructors prevent plagiarism by detecting unoriginal content in student papers.  In addition to acting as a plagiarism deterrent, it also has features designed to educate students about plagiarism and the importance of proper citation of any borrowed content.

SafeAssign can be used in two ways.

  1. 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.
  2. Instructors may upload papers directly with the Direct Submit feature, without student involvement.

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