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SafeAssign

Blackboard SafeAssign is an add-on product to Blackboard that allows faculty and students to check work against global and institutional databases for plagiarism. SafeAssign is freely available to faculty that wish to take advantage of it.

List of Databases Searched

SafeAssign is based on a unique text matching algorithm capable of detecting exact and inexact matching between a paper and source material. SafeAssignments are compared against several different databases, including:

• 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 1990s to present time, updated weekly (exclusive access)
  
• Institutional document archives containing all papers submitted to SafeAssign by users in their respective institutions
  
• Global Reference Database containing papers that were volunteered by students from Blackboard client institutions to help prevent cross-institutional plagiarism

Global Reference Database

Blackboard’s Global Reference Database is a separate database where students voluntarily donate copies of their papers to help prevent plagiarism. It is separated from each institution’s internal database, where all papers are stored by each corresponding institution, and students are free to select the option to check their papers without submitting them to the Global Reference Database. Students submit their papers to the database voluntarily and agree not to remove papers in the future. Submissions to the Global Reference Database are extra copies that are given voluntarily for the purpose of helping with plagiarism prevention. Blackboard does not claim ownership of submitted papers.

SafeAssign Instructor Manual (pdf)

SafeAssign Sample Report (pdf)

 

Updated: Friday, February 11, 2011

 

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