SafeAssign Tutorial

1. SafeAssign
tutorial
The way to nip
academic theft in
the bud
Tutorial facilitated by:
N. Dlodlo
nobukhosid@vut.ac.za

2. What is safeAssign?
• Blackboard tool that deters plagiarism
• Educates users on the value of academic honesty
• Fosters the importance of original writing
• Encourages proper citations in academic work
• Generates an originality report that indicates the percentage of the
paper that matches existing sources
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3. What can SafeAssign do?
Compares students’ work with previously submitted papers
and published works from several databases including:
•Internet
•ProQuest ABI and other academic journal databases
•Institutional repositories
•Global databases (upon request)
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4. LO: Create a SafeAssignment
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8. Selecting safeAssignment options
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9. Selecting safeAssignment options
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12. Viewing a safeAssignment
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17. Interpret a SafeAssignment report
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20. REMINDER
Where do you go if you want to?
QUESTION
• Create a safeAssignment
• Submit an assignment to the
safeAssignment feature (as a student)
• Grade a safeAssignment
• View a safeAssignment submission
• Clear an attempt
• View the full originality report
• View submission text
• View the percentage of the
paper/assignment that matches other
sources in a list
• Obtain a report on a paper outside of a
safeAssignment
• Upload previous assignments to the
institutional database
ANSWER
• Content area/ Course materials
• SafeAssignment
• Grade Centre
• Grade centre
• Grade centre
• Grade centre
• Grade centre or SafeAssignment
• Grade centre or SafeAssignment
• SafeAssignment (Direct submit tab)
• Direct submit (create folder)
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21. READINGS
• https://www.safeAssign.com/displays/SAFE/Home
• https://www.hunter.cuny.edu/icit/trc/workshops/index.shmtl.
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22. Thank you
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