For more information about Academic Integrity, please contact:
Jen Day Shaw
Dean of Students
(336) 334-5514
jdshaw@uncg.edu
What is SafeAssign?
SafeAssign is a plagiarism prevention service, offered by Blackboard to its Blackboard Learning System Enterprise, Vista Enterprise and CE Enterprise clients. This service helps educators prevent plagiarism by detecting unoriginal content in student papers. In addition to acting as a plagiarism deterrent, it also has features designed to aid in educating students about plagiarism and the importance of proper attribution of any borrowed content.
How Does it Work?
Submit Papers through Direct Submit via Blackboard
Follow these steps to submit papers through Direct Submit Blackboard.
- From the Control Panel, click SafeAssign under Course Tools.
- Click the Direct Submit tab.
- A list of folders and papers will appear. This list includes papers already uploaded through Direct Submit. It is not recommended that files be deleted from Direct Submit, as this will remove them from the institutional database of existing materials.
- Navigate to a folder where the paper or papers will be uploaded.
- Click Submit Papers.
- Select Upload File and browse for the file. Individual papers as well as papers that are grouped in a .ZIP package are accepted. Alternatively, select Copy/Paste Document and add the document text in the field.
- Select the upload options:
- Submit as Draft: A SafeAssign report will be generated however the paper will not be added to the institutional database and will not be used to check other papers.
- Skip Plagiarism Checking: Adds the papers to the institutional database without checking for content copied from other sources. This is useful if an Instructor wants to upload papers from an earlier course to ensure that current students are not reusing work.