Summary
This page contains information about Assignments with SafeAssign created after the Blackboard upgrade of 6 & 7 December 2014. If you still have the old-style “SafeAssignments” in your paper, please refer to the legacy SafeAssignments page.
To comply with the University guidelines, you will need to add two Assignments – one to act as a draft, where the students can read the SafeAssign report; and then a final submission, where students can’t read the SafeAssign report (but staff can).
Resources
- Using SafeAssignments (video)
- SafeAssign Information page (help.blackboard.com)
- Blackboard Anti-Plagiarism Training Course (view dates & times)
Content
Reminder: SafeAssign can take up to 48 hours to process a report during peak assessment times (worldwide).
Setting up a Draft Assignment with SafeAssign checking
- Log into Blackboard and access your paper
- Open the content area you wish to use (i.e Assignments, Course Documents)
- In the “Assessment” menu, choose “Assignment”
- Give your Draft Assignment a name (for example – Essay 1 Draft)
- Expand the “Submission Details” section by clicking on the link
- In the “Number of Attempts” choose “Single Attempt”
- Tick the boxes beside the following:
- Check submissions for plagiarism using SafeAssign
- Allow students to view SafeAssign originality report for their attempts
- Exclude submissions. This is important as it ensures their final submission won’t match with their draft.
- Set any other parameters you want to also include with your assignment
- Click Submit.
Setting up a Final Submission Assignment with SafeAssign checking
- Log into Blackboard and access your course
- Open the content area you wish to use (i.e Assignments, Course Documents).
- In the “Assessment” menu, choose “Assignment”.
- Give your Assignment a name (for example – Essay 1 Final Submission).
- Expand the “Submission Details” section by clicking on the link
- In the “Number of Attempts” choose “Single Attempt”
- Tick the box beside the following:
- Check submissions for plagiarism using SafeAssign
- Ensure the boxes beside the following are left un-ticked:
- Allow students to view SafeAssign originality report for their attempts
- Exclude submissions
- Set any other parameters you want to also include with your assignment
- Click Submit.
Downloading SafeAssignments
You can download student assignments that have been checked with SafeAssign using the Grade Centre.
- Enter the Grade Centre and find the column you want to grade
- Click the Contextual menu of this column
- To download all submitted assignments to your computer choose ‘Assignment File Download’. You can also download the files individually by viewing the attempts of individual students.