What Is It?
SafeAssign, Blackboard’s plagiarism prevention tool, compares submitted assignments against a set of academic papers to identify areas of overlap between the submitted assignment and existing works. Use SafeAssign to review assignment submissions for originality. SafeAssign is only available in Blackboard Learn course sites.
Features
The SafeAssign plagiarism detection service supports the following file formats:
- Microsoft Word documents i.e., files with .doc and .docx file name extensions
- Acrobat documents: .pdf
- HTML files: .htm and .html
- rich-text files: .rtf
- plain-text files: .txt
- open office documents: .odt
- zip files: .zip
Requirements
It is highly recommended that students and instructors name documents submitted to SafeAssign using only alphanumeric characters, the period, the underscore, and the hyphen, and one of the aforementioned file types; for example NetID.final.paper.doc or group2.assignment3.report.pdf.
In particular, using space/blank characters, quotation marks, diacritical marks, the pound sign, percent sign, and any other special characters should be avoided when naming documents for SafeAssign and for most any other Web-based/cloud computing application.
Who Is Eligible To Use It?
Where Can I Get It?
Select the Access SafeAssign via Blackboard button located on this page.
How Do I Use It?
How Much Does It Cost?
[Any charges the client incurs by using this service offering.]
How Can I Get Support?
If you are experiencing a problem with this service, please report it. If you just have a question, feel free to ask us.
Service Levels
| Service Request Fulfillment Time |
Under 2 business days, unless in-person training/discussion is required, or escalation to the vendor is required |
| Incident Resolution Time |
Under 2 business days unless escalation to the vendor is required |
| Service Availability |
24x7 |
| Maintenance Window(s) |
Blackboard weekly maintenance window: Friday, 1:00am - 5:00am |
| Service Notification Channel(s) |
IT Service Notices
Blackboard landing page |