When the report has completed, you will see a percentage match and can expand the SafeAssign section to view the report. The Library Study Skills website provides guidance on Referencing. Back to top. SafeAssign Frequently Asked Questions. How can SafeAssign be used? SafeAssign can be used in several ways: Blackboard assignments can be set up with SafeAssign enabled.
The student makes their submission and the work can then be collected by instructors through Blackboard together with a SafeAssign Originality Report, which details the results of the matching process. Previous Next. Images or screenshots that are within a document are not also checked but they appear on the originality report.
Technology is advancing and experts foresee SafeAssign being able to detect images soon because the Optical Character Recognition is undergoing rapid development. SafeAssign does not detect Font size. Students tend to change the font size provided by instructors to easily reach the number of pages required in an assignment. Instructors should be able to detect changes in font size. This is because the word count they expect will be lesser.
SafeAssign does not check spreadsheets. This means that there will be no originality reports or the matching content score when spreadsheets are submitted. Original powerpoint files are not checked by SafeAssign. What you should do to make them checkable is to convert them from a PPTs to rich text files. The formed text should have content that can be highlighted for easy checking. Images are not detected on SafeAssign.
One can copy images directly and escape plagiarism. Images with texts are also not detected. Many expect that with the development of Optical Character Recognition, SafeAssign and other plagiarism checking tools will be able to check similarity on images. SafeAssign detects pdfs. But for the pdfs to be detected, they must have text that can be highlighted. Text that can be copied and pasted on editing tools such as Microsoft Word.
SafeAssign detects text on tables and flags any similarity found. However, it does not detect data displayed on graphs but can detect text that accompanies the graphs. Either the captions that explain the graphs or the Title of the graphs can be detected.
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To do so:. Login to Blackboard. Search NIU. Menu Teaching and Learning with Blackboard. Open Assignment Settings or Test Settings in a new or existing assessment. Select Check submissions for plagiarism with SafeAssign.
When you enable SafeAssign for the assessment, you can also allow students to view the Originality Report. If you allow multiple attempts, an Originality Report is generated for each attempt a student submits. Choose whether to exclude submissions from the institutional and Global Reference Databases. Close the layer.
Your changes are saved! Search: How does the tool work? SafeAssign can be used in two ways. Faculty Members can set up SafeAssignments in their courses on Blackboard and let students submit papers to complete these assignments, in a way very similar to the Assignmnent tool provided by Blackboard Learning System. The papers will then be delivered to Faculty Members through the Blackboard Learning System together with the SafeAssign Originality Reports, which details the results of the matching process.
Faculty Members may upload papers directly, without student involvement through the Direct Submit feature. A SafeAssign Originality Report highlights any blocks of text in submitted documents that match reference sources, and links back to the matching documents on the Internet or in supported content databases.
SafeAssign reports also show similarity ratings for each matching sentence and allow Faculty Members to view a line-by-line comparison of potentially unoriginal text from submitted papers and the matching external documents. The Institutional Database is the archive of papers submitted by students in your institution.
Each institution's Institutional Database is stored in the central SafeAssign service and kept separate from other institution's databases. Papers are automatically added to this database upon submission and are stored in the central service to be checked against other papers submitted from your institution. The Institutional Database is completely separate from the Global Reference Database which extends across institutions and students must volunteer their papers to.
SafeAssign can generate originality reports for papers written in all alphabet-based languages with left-to-right writing. The user interface is currently only available in English.
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