Safe Assign
BBLearn 9.1

Using SafeAssign to Submit Assignments

SafeAssign is an anti-plagiarism tool useful for both faculty and students. It will help you with improving originality and proper attribution of your sources.

In this tutorial, you will learn the following:

1. Learn how to recognize a SafeAssignment

2. Submit a SafeAssignment

3. Access results of your submission

3. Interpret the SafeAssign report results

If you need to print out this tutorial and review at a later point in time, no problem! Simply click on the Print All link at the top right hand side of your screen.

Ready?

When you are ready to Continue, click on the page numbers or choose the page you are interested in viewing from the table of contents located on the upper left hand side of your screen.

Recognizing a SafeAssignment

You will submit SafeAssignments and attach files within them similar to the way you submit regular assignments. Nonetheless, your instructor creates SafeAssignments using a completely different tool and as illustrated below, they are identified by a different icon than regular assignments. Your instructor can place a link to the SafeAssignments tool within any Content Area, Folder, or Learning Module in Blackboard 9.1.

Submitting a SafeAssignment

Once you enter the SafeAssignment, you will see the assignment information again. There is a comment box in which you can make comments and a Browse button with which to attach one or more files. Below find the current acceptable file formats for SafeAssignments:

 Accessing the Results of Your Submission

Once you submit your paper, SafeAssign checks the originality of your work by comparing the text to text on the Internet, within published articles, and to the work of other students at your school. The demand on the system and the length of your submission determine the amount of time it takes for SafeAssign to review your work.  The report will be completed in approximately 15 minutes.

QUICK STEPS

1.       Return to the SafeAssignment to access the originality report.

2.       Click, View Complete, then

3.       Click OK to access your results.

 View Submission Results

Click the icon under Text to view the text of your submission. Click the icon under File to open your file in an application on your desktop. The number under Matching is the percentage of text that matches other submissions or sources. Click the icon under S A Report to view the SafeAssignment report.

Interpreting the SafeAssign Report

If your teacher allows you access to a SafeAssign report, the results will look similar to the picture here.

This report is also what a teacher will see for each SafeAssignment you submit.

Take a few moments to familiarize yourself with the report results.

Please hover over light yellow arrows to learn how to interpret important sections of the report.