SafeAssign

At today's online in-service, I facilitated a session on SafeAssign, a plagiarism and source matching tool built into Blackboard. Implementing SafeAssignments into our courses can help deter plagiarism, teach students about proper source attribution, and provide information for faculty as they decipher and determine possible instances of plagiarism.

If you are developing an assignment with a research component - or if you are redeveloping a course that already contains a research-based assignment - I encourage you to set up the assignment as a SafeAssignment rather than a regular assignment. These assignments are integrated with the Grade Center just like other assignments, but have the added feature of checking for source matching. 

The resources below will help answers many of your questions and illustrate for you how to use SafeAssign in your redevelopment projects:

• Recording of SafeAssign in-service session: View the Elluminate Live! recording 
• SafeAssign Wiki 
• SafeAssign Instructor Manual 
• Tutorials on YouTube: 
• SafeAssign - 411 for Faculty 
• Changing a Course Assignment to a SafeAssignmen

If you have any other questions about SafeAssign, please contact me!