SafeAssign Instructor Manual
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1. ee a You re done creating your SafeAssignment s Using Direct Submit Overview Direct Submit generates SafeAssign reports on papers submitted outside of a SafeAssignment PLEASE NOTE Papers uploaded through Direct Submit are only added to the Institutional Database there is no option to add them to the Global Reference Database since students have to opt in ona paper by paper basis Additionally there is no Gradebook integration with papers submitted through Direct Submit So because Direct Submit does not offer access to the Global Reference Database or integration with Gradebook instructors should set up and use SafeAssignments to collect submissions whenever possible Repeat steps 4 and 5 to create additional SafeAssignments in this area of your course SafeAssignments Create SafeAssignment S C Title F A Draft for Final O x Homework g Delete Direct Submit allows Instructors to submit papers one at a time or several at once by including them in a ZIP file ZIP packages should contain no more than 100 papers and submitting more than 300 papers in a session is not recommended Additionally papers with over 5000 sentences or that are more than 10 MIB in size cannot be submitted Submit Papers through Direct Submit Before DirectSubmit can be used in a section a Content Link must be created for each PLEASE NOTE this is a two step process You must first add the Content Link from the Build2. SafeAssign Plagiarism Prevention Tool User Manual for Instructors created by Michelle Goeders OIT August 2008 Contents POU SA 5 5 Crepes sepsecinatc cairo ea cies ows sav bos wee stots sats E TNE A E S 1 WaS 5 eA SEIEN aage n Sauce scien vasiec seven E ENEE EEA 1 How does SafeAssign WOrk axel cer tacesiarlecree sande ouiiniceueniseloncan EE OA EEEE AA AS 1 MeNe PTO EOT nee on E ee A ne ee ee ee 2 Before You Use SafeAssign Important Things to KNOW ccccsscccssccceseecesecceeeeeseceseuceeseceeeceeseceseeceseneees 2 Creatine oo aleASsSiENMEN aeieeiaii eae se sect oct ge vce ete raion tice ante aan cian dias NEEE E 2 WV eena once ET anes cacnstnausenacveetonessarceupeet E E E A E EREN 2 fers Core Bwve Key A014 a 6 2 geen E a e a aaa 3 Une DECE UNI epesacsatne sate setec aher acteera E A outs eancaaiee aeamesisesusiveaaeeecur sadeecursenc nates 3 Submit Papers through Direct SUDMIt sespdevedeaspsaceucesupacssassawacensecauanonaueawusenstesuwasasene N ANKEET E EE 4 Ufo ole od E TYPE ee A E A eee en ae ee eee ere ee 5 SafeAssien Originality RED OMS so iescnessvsussceesviesdccescdadacentionsnisnertwaainvsadanesaiwedactataiaetaiesasertaradacsadapagsaneeeaiecpeadenseas 5 OI OW ee canter acre nt cementation coset atc sea oe tose osee sean E aoaecsete denen tacuy E 5 REDO ELV O eee ge a a ee ene See ee eee 5 About SafeAssign What is SafeAssign SafeAssign is a plagiarism prevention service offered by Blackboard to its Blackboa
3. above a student in the course so TAs additional instructors etc 4 Click Submit Papers 5 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 6 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 Supported file types Direct Submit supports the following file types e Microsoft Word document doc e Rich Text Format rtf e HTML htm or html e Text txt e Zip compressed ZIP used to upload multiple files PLEASE NOTE if the papers you are directly submitting include images please note that the images must not exceed 2MB or the submission may fail SafeAssign Originality Reports Overview SafeAssign Originality Reports provide detailed information about the matches found between a submitted paper and existing sources The SafeAssign report identifies all matching blocks of text It is the responsibility of the teacher and student to investigate whether the matching text is
4. properly referenced or not Detailing every match prevents detection errors due to differences in citing standards Report layout SafeAssign reports are divided into three sections e Report Information This section lists data about the paper such as the author percent Matching and when it was submitted This section also includes options for downloading the report emailing the report or viewing a printable version Note that the printable version may be the most effective view of the report for those users that rely on assistive technologies to access the Blackboard Learning System e Suspected Sources This section lists the sources that have text that matches the text of the submitted paper Users may select sources exclude them from the review and process the paper again This is useful if a source is a previous work from the same student for the same assignment or if there is some reason that lengthy sections of a particular source appear in the paper Processing the paper again will generate a new value for the percent matching without using the excluded sources e Manuscript Text This section shows the submitted paper All matching blocks of text are identified Clicking a matching block of text will display information about the original source and the probability that the block or sentence was copied from the source
5. rd 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 importance of proper attribution of any borrowed content How does SafeAssign Work SafeAssign can be used in two ways 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 Instructors may upload papers directly with the Direct Submit feature without student involvement Matching Process SafeAssign checks all submitted papers against the following databases Internet comprehensive index of documents available for public access on the Internet ProQuest ABI Inform database with over 1 100 publication titles and about 2 6 million articles from 90s to present time updated weekly exclusive access Institutional document archives containing all papers submitted to SafeAssign by users in their respective insti
6. ssignment without starting from the beginning Like regular Assignments however SafeAssignments are integrated with the Gradebook in CE Vista Enterprise version 4 2 2 and higher Create a SafeAssignment Before SafeAssign or DirectSubmit can be used in a section a Content Link must be created for each PLEASE NOTE this is a two step process You must first add the Content Link from the Build tab Second you create the actual SafeAssignment from the Teach tab Creating a SafeAssign Content Link Follow these steps to create section content links 1 Click the Build tab 2 Navigate to the location where you wish to create a SafeAssignment Content page or Learning Module 3 Click Add Content Link then SafeAssign Create SafeAssign 4 Title the SafeAssignment 5 Click Configure Once the SafeAssignment Content Link has been added follow these steps to create the actual SafeAssignment 1 Click the Teach tab 2 Navigate to the location where you wish to create a Assessments A Assignments C Chat Direct Submit add existing fil in y Discussions E Learning Module and use them create Media Library Collection ih SCORM Module EO Syllabus Web Link atent in other button SafeAssignment this must be the same location where you created the Content Link in Step 3 above Click the SafeAssignment Content Link Click Create SafeAssignment Fill out the form and click Save
7. tab Second you create the actual Direct Submit instance from the Teach tab Create a Direct Submit Content Link Follow these steps to submit papers through Direct Submit 1 Click the Build tab 2 On your course home page choose Add Content Link Direct Submit Create Direct Submit 3 Assign a Title to the Direct Submit instance How to Hide Direct Submit Content Link 1 From the Teach view click on the down arrow next to the Direct Submit content link 2 Select Hide Item This will hide the Direct Submit console from the students in the course ation Home Page Submit through Direct Submit E AddFile Create Folder T Add Content Link Furl Book Assessments 1 From the Teach view click on the Direct Submit content EB arate link E Campus Direct Submit ay This brings you to your Direct Submit dropbox or console Aen 2 If you have already uploaded papers a list of folders and B cama ee es papers will appear This list includes papers already a SCOR modure uploaded through Direct Submit It is not recommended fa l oe that files be deleted from Direct Submit as this will remove them from the institutional database of existing materials 3 Navigate to a folder or create a new folder where the paper or papers will be uploaded Note Papers added to folders in the Private tab are only viewable by you the instructor Papers added to folders in the Shared tab are viewable by anyone with a role
8. tutions Global Reference Database containing papers that were volunteered by students from Blackboard client institutions to help prevent cross institutional plagiarism Before You Use SafeAssign Important Things to Know SafeAssign is only available through a Blackboard course shell You must have attended instructor Blackboard training in order to have access to Blackboard According to NLU policy you must notify students of your plans to use SafeAssign particularly if you use Direct Submit If you intend to use SafeAssign you should add information about the tool and about plagiarism to your syllabus SafeAssign does not accept documents in the new Word 2007 2008 docx file format Be sure that you and your students know how to save documents in the Word 97 2003 doc file format or use one of the other acceptable file formats such as txt rtf or Atm SafeAssign cannot detect if a student attributed a source correctly Read the section on interpreting reports for more information Creating a SafeAssignment Overview SafeAssignments appear in courses as a new content type and can be added to any course content area SafeAssignments function like the existing Assignment content type with the added layer of a plagiarism detection check once papers are submitted Please note that SafeAssignments are different from Assignments and there is no connection between the content types It is not possible to make an existing Assignment a SafeA
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