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Safe Assignment is a plagiarism check program in Blackboard. All final drafts must be uploaded
into Safe Assignment, and this video will show you how to submit your paper and how
we can both view the Safe Assignment report.
When you are ready to submit your final draft, find the green check mark, which denotes the
Safe Assignment icon. Click on View/Complete and browse/attach your paper just like you'd
attach a document to an email.
I have already uploaded a paper this way. So what we're going to do is click on View/Complete
again to view the results of the upload.
This icon is the actual file. If I wanted to, I can download your document. Burton's
paper came back at 5% matching, which is a minimal number. Normally, I wouldn't even
bother to open up the report.
But, let's look at the report because it's very detailed. You click again on this green
icon to view your report.
The top of the report will give specific sources from which information may have been plagiarized.
What I can click on is "highlight all" and then it color codes. For your future assignments,
you will have more sources that do pop up because you'll be accessing and using sources
in your papers.
When I scroll down, I can see the text from the paper is highlighted in the same color
as above. So Safe Assignment is telling me that this first sentence/header right here
came from this source. Now everyone is using the same headers in the same report, so this
tells me I can disregard the 5%. But what I can also do in this report, and you can
do this as well, is click on these individual sentences and what Safe Assignment will tell
me is how much of a sentence from a student's paper matches the suspected source. It's very
detailed.
As you embark on your more detailed reports, you will be paraphrasing, putting information
into your own words, and perhaps even quoting directly from those sources. Chances are that
Safe Assignment will highlight those passages as plagiarized. Safe Assignment isn't smart
enough to recognize quotations and in-text citations. Thankfully, I am smart enough,
which is why I will go into the Safe Assignment report.
Any number in the double digits will usually prompt me to check the report. As long as
everything is properly paraphrased or in quotations AND cited in correct APA format, a high report
number does not mean plagiarism. And by high number, I mean in the 20s or 30s.
Make sure to submit your papers early in case there is ever a problem and you need to edit
and add citations or reword passages. Once you submit the final draft and the due date
hits, it's too late to make changes.
As always, please email me with any questions or concerns.