Blackboard SafeAssign: A Plagiarism Prevention Tool
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SafeAssign compares submitted assignments against a set of academic papers to identify areas of overlap between the submitted assignment and existing works. SafeAssign originality reports provide detailed information about the matches found between a student’s submitted paper and existing sources. Both instructors and students can use the report to review assignment submissions for originality and create opportunities to identify how to properly attribute sources.
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Integrated Workflows
By integrating with your LMS rather than adding yet another external tool to work with, SafeAssign provides a seamless experience.
Robust Content Sources
User submissions are compared with content from other students at their own school, from other schools, from academic and business journals, and from the broader Internet.
Inline Match Comparison
Text matches are easily compared to the source content directly within the interface, and teachers can omit sources temporarily or permanently with ease.
Teachable Moments
Teachers can choose to allow students to see the results of Originality Reports, providing learning opportunities for understanding how to write and express themselves.
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SafeAssign in Your Course
SafeAssign compares student submissions against a set of academic papers to identify areas of overlap between the submitted text and existing works.
SafeAssign is effective as both a deterrent and an educational tool. Use SafeAssign to review test submissions for originality and create opportunities to help students identify how to properly attribute sources rather than paraphrase.
Supported files
SafeAssign only supports file types that are convertible to plain text, which includes these file types: DOCX, DOC, PPT, PPTX, PDF, TXT, ODT, RTF, HTML, and HTM. Spreadsheet files aren't supported.
SafeAssign also accepts ZIP files and processes files that match any of these file types.
SafeAssign counts and displays the total number of attachments in a submission, as well as the number of attachments processed by SafeAssign. SafeAssign only processes and creates Originality Reports for attachments that match the supported file types. For unsupported file types, the SafeAssign Originality Report omits a matching score.
SafeAssign Originality Reports
After a paper is processed, a report is generated detailing the percentage of text in the submitted paper that matches existing sources. The report shows the suspected sources for each section of the submitted paper that returns a match. You can delete matching sources from the report and process it again if the paper is a continuation of a previously submitted work by the same student.
Read the report carefully and investigate whether each block of text is properly attributed.
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Blackboard Learn: Original Course View
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You can use SafeAssign plagiarism checking for any of your assignments.
- On the Create Assignment page, expand Submission Details .
- Select Check submissions for plagiarism using SafeAssign .
- Allow students to view the SafeAssign Originality Reports on their submissions.
- Exclude all student submissions for this assignment from the Institutional or Global Reference Databases.
- Complete the Create Assignment page.
- Select Submit .
When you create an assignment using SafeAssign, a grade column is automatically created in the Grade Center. When the assignment is ready for grading, the Needs Grading icon appears in the Grade Center cell. Grade assignments from the Grade Center or access them from the Needs Grading page.
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Blackboard Learn: Ultra Course View
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You can use SafeAssign to check for potential plagiarism in student submissions for both assignments and tests in the Ultra Course View.
- Open Assignment Settings or Test Settings in a new or existing assessment.
- Under SafeAssign , select Enable Originality Report .
- 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!
When you enable the Originality Report, an Originality column is added to the Submissions page. Scan the list to quickly determine which submissions may include plagiarized material.
You can enable the SafeAssign Originality Report any time, even after students have started their submissions, but submissions are only checked when SafeAssign is enabled. Submissions received before you enable the setting aren't checked with SafeAssign.
SafeAssign results are hidden while anonymous grading is enabled. After you post grades and names are shown, you can view the SafeAssign results and the Originality Reports.
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Multiple attachments and attempts
SafeAssign recognizes multiple attempts for an individual test as submitted by the same student for the same test. SafeAssign doesn't check the contents of the current attempt against content from previous submissions. You can view each Originality Report next to the corresponding attempt.
If a student includes more than one attachment with a test, they are listed in the Originality Report section of the SafeAssign panel. Select a file name link to view the file's text in a new window, along with detailed text matching analysis.
About the exclude submissions option
The SafeAssign settings have an option to "exclude submissions" when you create the assignment. This option allows instructors to create assignments that don't include any student submissions in the Institutional or Global Reference Databases. Like other assessment settings, this option will be point-in-time and editable after assignment creation. If you change the option at a later date, new submissions will honor the new state of the setting. An example use case:
An instructor wants a single assignment to allow non-final submissions, then a single "final" submission. Only the final submission should be included by SafeAssign in the Institutional database for reference against later submissions.
You can accomplish this use case with these steps:
- Create an assignment with multiple attempts, SafeAssign, and the "exclude submissions" options enabled.
- Students submit their "draft" works, and submissions aren't included in the Institutional or Global Databases.
- When the final submission is expected, you disable the "exclude submissions" option.
- Students submit their final works, and submissions are then included in the Institutional or Global Databases.
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You can use SafeAssign to prevent plagiarism and to create opportunities to help students identify how to properly attribute sources rather than paraphrase. SafeAssign is effective as both a deterrent and an educational tool.
SafeAssign compares submitted assignments against a set of academic papers to identify areas of overlap between the submitted assignment and existing works.
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: More than 1,100 publication titles and about 2.6 million articles from 1990 to present time, updated weekly (exclusive access).
- Institutional document archives: Contains all papers submitted to SafeAssign by users in their respective institutions.
- Global Reference Database: Contains papers that were volunteered by students from Blackboard client institutions to help prevent cross-institution plagiarism.
Safe Assignments allow for Originally Checking, full integration with the Grade Center, and provides instructors with the ability to submit an assignment to check for originality.
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How to Use SafeAssign in your Assignments
You can now use SafeAssign plagiarism checking for any of your assignments.
- On the Create Assignment page, expand Submission Details.
- Select Check submissions for plagiarism using SafeAssign.
- Allow students to view the SafeAssign originality reports on their submissions.
- Exclude all student submissions for this assignment from the institutional or global reference databases.
- Complete the Create Assignment page.
- Click Submit.
Supported Files
SafeAssign only supports file types that are convertible to plain text. This includes the following file types: DOCX, DOC, PDF, TXT, ODT, RTF, HTML, and HTM. PowerPoint and spreadsheet files are not supported.
SafeAssign also accepts ZIP files and processes files that match any of these file types.
SafeAssign counts and displays the total number of attachments in a submission, as well as the number of attachments processed by SafeAssign. SafeAssign only processes and creates originality reports for attachments that match the supported file types. For unsupported file types, the SafeAssign originality report omits a matching score.
SafeAssign Originality Reports
After a paper is processed, a report is generated detailing the percentage of text in the submitted paper that matches existing sources. The report shows the suspected sources for each section of the submitted paper that returns a match. You can delete matching sources from the report and process it again. This is useful if the paper is a continuation of a previously submitted work by the same student.
Read the report carefully and investigate whether each block of text is properly attributed.
To learn more, see SafeAssign Originality Reports .
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. 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 delete 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.
The SafeAssignment tool and the Assignment tool are completely separate. Both tools enable you to distribute work to individual students, but there are some key differences in the features available in each.
For more information, learn more about SafeAssign on the Blackboard Instructor Support Page .
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SafeAssign is a plagiarism prevention tool that detects unoriginal content in students' papers by identifying areas of overlap between submitted assignments and existing works. SafeAssign can also be used to help students identify how to properly attribute sources rather than paraphrase without giving credit to the original source. The SafeAssign feature is effective as both a deterrent and an educational tool.
Note: Delays in SafeAssign occur throughout the semester based on high demand. Please DO NOT have students resubmit papers as this pushes them to the back of the queue. Blackboard currently reports as much as 24-36 hours or more may elapse before report results are returned.
How SafeAssign Works
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Interpreting SafeAssign Scores
The SafeAssign feature is based on a unique text matching algorithm capable of detecting both exact and inexact matches between a submitted paper and a particular source material. Assignments submitted to the SafeAssign database are compared with several different databases, including the following:
- Internet: Comprehensive index of documents available for public access on the Internet
- ProQuest ABI/Inform database: More than 1,100 publication titles and about 2.6 million articles from 1990's to present time, updated weekly (exclusive access)
- Institutional document archives: Contains all papers submitted to SafeAssign by users in their respective institutions
- Global Reference Database: Contains papers that were volunteered by students from Blackboard client institutions to help prevent cross-institutional plagiarism
Assignments accept every possible file type as an attachment to a submission. SafeAssign will only process and create Originality Reports for attachments with compatible file types. SafeAssign is only able to support file types that are convertible to plain text including the following file types: .docx; .doc; .pdf; .txt; .odt; .rtf; .html; .htm; and .zip (processing files that match any of these file types within the .zip). However, Learn Assignment's Inline Grading feature only supports the following subset of file types: .pptx; .ppt; .xlsx; .xls; .docx; .doc; and .pdf. SafeAssign will only process and create Originality Reports for attachments that match the above file types. For unsupported file types, the SafeAssign Originality Report will omit a matching score. This information is visible in the right-hand navigation bar of the new Originality Report.
These two lists of compatible file types mean that there are only certain file types that can be displayed in the Inline Grading workflow and processed by SafeAssign. Below is a Venn diagram outlining which file types support both features:
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Enabling SafeAssign in Original Course View
Enable the SafeAssign tool during Assignment creation and editing, under the Submission Details section.
Faculty have the option to Exclude Submissions when creating an Assignment. This option will allow faculty to create Assignments that do not include any student submissions in the Institutional or Global Reference Databases, enabling students to "check their work" against SafeAssign sources prior to submitting a final version without subsequently revised drafts being flagged as matching the previous "draft" submissions. Like other options on Assignments, this option will be point-in-time and editable after assignment creation. If the option were changed at a later date, new submissions would honor the new state of the setting.
Enabling SafeAssign in Ultra Course View
Enable SafeAssign in the settings panel while creating an Assignment or a Test.
- Open Assignment Settings or Test Settings in a new or existing assessment.
- Under SafeAssign , select Enable Originality Report .
- 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!
You can enable the SafeAssign Originality Report at any time, even after students have started their submissions, but submissions are only checked when SafeAssign is enabled. Submissions received before you enable the setting aren't checked with SafeAssign.
SafeAssign Doesn't Generate a Report when Filename Has Special Characters
Please note that assignment submissions with special characters (i.e., #,:,*,space, etc.) are not evaluated by SafeAssign and will not generate a report.
It is recommended that users only include numbers, letters, hyphens, and underscores in their filenames. In cases where student users have already made a submission, change the assignment setting to allow multiple submissions and then ask them to resubmit the document after making the appropriate filename change.
- SafeAssign Originality Reports
After a paper has been processed, an Originality Report will be available that will show the percentage of text in the submitted paper that matches existing sources. It also shows the suspected sources of each section of the submitted paper that returns a match. The faculty can then delete matching sources from the report and process it again. This procedure is useful to ascertain if the paper is a continuation of a previously submitted work by the same student.
Because the SafeAssign feature identifies all matching blocks of text, it is important that the faculty reads the report carefully and determines whether or not the block of text in question is properly attributed.
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The sentence matching scores represent the percentage probability that two phrases have the same meaning. This number can also be interpreted as the reciprocal to the probability that these two phrases are similar by chance. For example, a score of 90 percent means that there is a 90 percent probability that these two phrases are the same and a 10 percent probability that they are similar by chance and not because the submitted paper includes content from the existing source (whether or not it is appropriately attributed).
The overall score is an indicator of what percentage of the submitted paper matches existing sources. Please note that this score is a warning indicator only and it is the faculty’s responsibility to review the papers carefully to see if the matches are properly attributed.
- Scores below 15 percent: These papers typically include some quotes and few common phrases or blocks of text that match other documents. These papers typically do not require further analysis, as there is no evidence of the possibility of plagiarism in these papers.
- Scores between 15 percent and 40 percent: These papers include extensive quoted or paraphrased material or they may include plagiarism. These papers should be reviewed to determine if the matching content is properly attributed.
- Scores over 40 percent: There is a very high probability that text in this paper was copied from other sources. These papers include quoted or paraphrased text in excess and should be reviewed for plagiarism.
Frequently Asked Questions
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.
What information does SafeAssign provide in its reports? 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.
If intructors enable student viewing, each student can view the reports for their own submitted papers.
SafeAssign currently checks all submitted papers against the following databases:
- Internet - comprehensive index of billions 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 '90s 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.
What is the Institutional Database? 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.
Can SafeAssign process papers written in languages other than English? 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.
Who owns the intellectual property rights for each submitted paper? Blackboard does not claim any ownership rights on the content submitted to SafeAssign.
How long does it take to generate originality reports? Reports are not generated instantaneously - it usually takes from several seconds to few minutes to receive a report. During peak use (such as the end of the semester), it can sometimes take several hours.
What file formats does SafeAssign support? SafeAssign supports Word (.doc or .docx), plain text (.txt), rich text format (.rtf), .pdf, and .html formats. In addition, supported file types can be compressed to a .zip file for Direct Submit.
What is the file size limit for files submitted to SafeAssign? There is a 10 MB limit on all files submitted to SafeAssign. This applies to individual student uploads to Assignments with SafeAssign enabled as well as .zip files of multiple papers uploaded by faculty using the Direct Submit feature (in which case the .zip file must be under 10 MB). Unfortunately, this limit is set by the SafeAssign servers, which are managed by Blackboard, so it cannot be overridden.
How does the Global Reference Database work? 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.
What if a student decides to remove a paper from the Global Reference Database? Students submit their papers to the database voluntarily and agree not to remove papers in the future.
Are students forced to submit papers to the Global Reference Database either by Blackboard or NIU? All papers are submitted to the Global Reference Database voluntarily, and students are free to choose not to submit their papers to this database. Faculty Members can still use the service effectively, even when students choose not to submit their papers to the Global Reference Database.
What is the SafeAssign "Synchronize this Course" option that appears in the "Direct Submit" area? The synchronize function is to deal with breaks in communication or to update a course which is based on a template or has been copied. It is a good idea for the faculty member to click on this when first using SafeAssign and to periodically update it or update if any course level issues arise. It simply synchronizes the papers in the course with the SafeAssign central database, ensuring the correct associations exist between the course and our central database.
Can students directly submit a draft assignment to check without having it deployed as a SafeAssignment via the instructor or having it be tied to the Grade Center in Blackboard? There is the option to make an assignment a draft. In this case, as mentioned above, the paper is not checked into the institutional database.
Why did SafeAssignment scores in the Grade Center get deleted after the students submitted their assignments? Make sure to enter SafeAssignment scores in the Grade Center after the students submit their assignments. Scores assigned prior to SafeAssignment submission are deleted when students submit their assignments. If paper assignments are collected together with a Blackboard SafeAssign feature, make sure to enter student grades after they have submitted their assignments electronically through SafeAssign.
It is possible to download all of the files that the students submitted to a SafeAssignment. This does not include the originality reports. Those must be viewed within Blackboard directly.
To download all of the submitted files:
- From the course with the SafeAssignment, open Course Tools in the Control Panel
- Click SafeAssign
- On the next page, choose SafeAssignments
- Move your mouse cursor over the SafeAssignment you are interested in. When the Action Link appears, click it and choose View Submissions from the menu
- Click the Download All Submissions button at the top of the page
Your browser will download a .zip folder that has all of the submissions. You can open the folder or extract the files to read the individual submissions.
If you get this error and you are logged into Blackboard, it means that the security or privacy settings of your web browser are set to not allow 3rd-party cookies. You will need to change that setting to be able to use SafeAssign.
For Internet Explorer:
- Click Tools
- Click Internet Options
- Click Privacy
- Set the setting to Low
For Firefox:
- Click Options
- Select Accept cookies from site
- Select Accept third-party cookies
- Change Keep until to they expire
For Safari:
- Click Safari
- Click Preferences
- Click Security
- Change Accept cookies to Always
If you or your students receive this error, you will need to re-synchronize your course. To do so:
- Underneath the Control Panel , expand the Course Tools menu.
- Click SafeAssign .
- On the following page, click SafeAssign Items .
- On the SafeAssign Items page, click the Synchronize this course button.
- You may briefly see a message telling you it will take a moment to synchronize. Your student(s) should now be able to access the Assignment.
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The Problem of Plagiarism in Students’ Works
In modern conditions, plagiarism has become a severe problem for higher education systems in all countries in the world. According to the majority of opinion polls and experts' opinion, extensive unscrupulous borrowing is contained in more than half of the work of students of various specialties. Luckily, now teachers can use safeassign plagiarism checker online for free, which detects unoriginal content in students' papers by identifying areas of overlap between submitted assignments and existing works.
Written tasks increasingly turn into an imitation of the learning process, which calls into question the quality and competitiveness of higher education, which does not give many students a fundamentally new knowledge, even compared to secondary school. It raises serious doubts about the feasibility of the state covering the costs of training a substantial number of students while maintaining a low pay for teachers, who also sometimes steal works. But there are dissertation plagiarism checkers, so that can be revealed as well.
Is Safeassign Check for Students Really Necessary?
There is not much particular research on the prevalence of plagiarism. Most of it is concentrated on the situation in universities, on the problems that are associated with the desire of students to "ease their own lives." The real educational process today goes hand in hand with plagiarism in all universities in the world. The Internet is the principal assistant of students which makes it possible to quickly find information on the right topic and use it in preparing any task. The statistic says that no less than 80-90% of students download coursework and abstracts from the Internet and 50-60% of them download diploma papers, at best — rewrite the works from several books and textbooks. On the other hand, it is becoming easier to detect the fact of theft, using assignment plagiarism checkers that compares the work submitted by the student with thousands of other tasks.
Students often violate the generally accepted rules for writing research papers merely because they are not familiar with them. Besides, universities adopt their own "codes of ethics," which indicate which student's research activities are permissible and which are not. To ensure that such codes are better respected, the students themselves are involved in their development. Together with university plagiarism checker verifying each job submitted for plagiarism, these measures make it possible to maximize the degree of originality of student works.
So, what exactly pushes students to plagiarism? We can distinguish two groups of factors - involuntary and intentional plagiarism. The reasons for unintentional plagiarism were mentioned above. They can be summarized as ignorance of the students' requirements, which their work must comply with, and how to fulfill such requirements.
The student can spend a lot of time reading the literature on the topic, but the result won’t be good if he does not have his own opinion. However, the most important thing is that the student does not compare the efforts that he or she will be putting to write the text, with the costs of plagiarism. In many cases, the time spent on copying other works may exceed the resources spent on composing your text.
Best Free Online Plagiarism Checker for Students
To check whether students borrow other people's works, check their theses, coursework and especially diplomas teachers use college essay plagiarism checkers. It is highly recommended to use such services as they can help check not only the uniqueness of the text but also its quality, which is often affected by:
The college paper plagiarism checkers usually shows the ratio of keywords (phrases matched to popular search queries) to the total volume of the text. The indicators of spamming are divided into several levels. If the value lies in the range of up to 30% - this is the norm, from 30 to 60 - is not critical, although it shows that this is a deliberately optimized text. If it is higher than 60% - you need to rewrite.
Water means the percentage of words and phrases in the text that do not carry any semantic load; these are stop words, phraseological units, verbal turns, and connecting words. Just like the drowsiness, several levels determine the "water content" of the text. Up to 20% is considered to be the norm; if the water is more than 30%, then the material should be rewritten.
Mixed words
Another reason to check the text in plagiarism checker is the search for mixed words. "Mixed" refers to words that contain similar characters in writing, belonging to different keyboard layouts. In simple terms, to enhance the uniqueness of the text, writers can replace the symbols of one alphabet with the signs of another.
What is a Professional Plagiarism checker?
Content originality authentication services appeared more than ten years ago, but for a long time in most universities, there was a relatively superficial attitude towards the use of such programs. In the past, the standard originality requirements of thesis plagiarism checker for master's theses were limited to 60-70%, for coursework — 50%, and for works of the lower rank they were not to be presented at all. Currently, not only does the minimum percentage of required originality increase, but also most institutions need to test the works in various systems.
Useful plagiarism document checker is a tool for checking texts for uniqueness and quality. The robot determines the content part using a sophisticated pattern subtraction algorithm, divides the text into logical phrases and determines the authorship. The primary purpose of the anti-plagiarism service is to detect the thievery of content among competitors and make sure that your site will not become a duplicate and will never take the leading position.
Uniqueness checking services operate according to similar principles. The client needs to download the document, the text or the link to the resource and wait for the search results matches.
Usually, the problem areas of uniqueness are highlighted in colors. Depending on the service, the color designations may differ. Some plagiarism systems divide the analyzed text into sentences of 3-4 or more words in length and drive them into a series of search engines. If there is a site with the same sequence of words, then a piece of text is automatically considered unoriginal.
Some services that are primarily used by specialized sites where customers are looking for freelancers to write articles, mainly for filling the pages of websites. Although, nowadays plagiarism checker is used by universities and school teachers also increasingly operate with various originality verification systems.
Why is Plagiarism Checker Important?
In a world where the Internet is becoming more popular, new sites are appearing daily and efforts need to be made to fill in the content. The main problem with creating a website is the uniqueness of such materials. It does not matter what you write for your site or order from a copywriter, you still need to use the article plagiarism checker.
In the past, for the material to be considered unique, it was enough to change the words in a sentence to slightly alter the matter. Now search engines are interested in giving the user unique, author's material. And not just the word order is analyzed, but even the similarity of synonyms and the text structure.
Therefore, the text should be original and meaningful, so that your website is always at the top. Many users racing for uniqueness try to use special programs-synonymizes which are helpful sometimes. They find synonyms for all or some words, sometimes surprising with their effectiveness. However, in most cases, after using such programs, the texts require very serious improvements and corrections.
There are online plagiarism checkers with reports that help make the text more unique, without sending paid SMS and even registration on the site. They have incredibly advantageous options, helping everyone to find many variants of writing the same sentence without changing its meaning.
Synonymizing and rearranging words in places will not help to bypass the verification since most plagiarism checkers apply the lexical analysis of texts. Replacement of letters in words with symbols from another layout will also fail as the best plagiarism checker will quickly find and allocate such places. Adding "extra" words, for example, additional definitions also does not help to deceive a smart program as such areas will be identified quickly.
It is better to use not one or two to make the material genuinely unique, but five or seven sources, from which you can learn the essential information. Read, analyze, then write down your thoughts, get rid of usual stamps, and you are guaranteed with good results. Use your imagination and vocabulary, and write the texts yourself. Try to change phrases, and you will see how quickly everything changes for the better in percentage representation.
Note: it sounds easier than it really is and the problem of plagiarism goes much deeper. For instance, modern educational systems expect too much from kids in schools, and it is no longer surprising that almost every teacher uses a school plagiarism checker. The educational programs are getting more complicated with each year and children are overloaded with tasks and assignments they can’t actually manage. They have no other choice but to learn how to use safeassign free, so that they can accomplish their assignments qualitatively and fast.
To enhance the uniqueness of your work, start the changes from the very beginning since it is from there that all other problems begin. Search engines, first of all, check the beginning and "see" where it could be copied. In the middle of the text it will be enough to change the case, time, replace words with synonyms, more readable and capacious. The final part of the book is no less important than its beginning. Therefore, it is worthwhile to work on it, and if necessary, rewrite it completely, from the first and to the last word.
Note: when adding links to other articles and websites, the uniqueness of the text only wins when you run it through the percent plagiarism checker.
You should always remain yourself and write texts exclusively from you. Use the introductions, conclusions, lists, links, and everything that can come to your mind, the main thing is to achieve the necessary readability and uniqueness, and with a certain level of understanding of such processes, it is entirely feasible.
When using the paper plagiarism checker online, you can check your text for spamming. Most often spam occurs in poor SEO texts, where there is a significant percentage of key phrases with a small amount of the material itself. That usually affects product cards and category descriptions in online stores — there are a lot of keywords to enter, and there is not much room for the text.
Another indicator of spamming is the distribution of keys in the text. Don’t let the keys meet in two sentences in a row. They need to be evenly distributed throughout the book. The optimal distance between occurrences is 300-400 characters. Otherwise, search engines can count the material as substandard, and it will not fall into the top ten of the issue.
How Should the Best Plagiarism Checker Work?
The success of the site ranking by search engines directly depends on the uniqueness and usefulness of the information published. The check for originality and the publication of new content will improve the attendance of the site. And the original and informative content of the resource will help interest users.
After all, considering how many websites exist on the Internet nowadays, it is almost impossible to write an article with high index of text uniqueness from the first attempt. We have to write, check, correct, and so on until the text is 95-100% unique according to an essay plagiarism checker. These figures are ideal for the content, which should be laid out in a worldwide network, for everyone to see.
Besides, original and quality content must meet other characteristics: not be to advertising, be reliable, exciting and visually organized — contain photos, videos, infographics, multimedia or audio. In general, include everything that will somehow decorate the text.
There is a considerable number of web plagiarism checkers offering to check your site for uniqueness. The task of such services is to build a transparent and reliable system of cooperation between the buyer of the content and writers. Also, many of them offer a multifunctional and useful work tool that will allow customers to get quality materials, and performers a reward for their work.
The difference between online services from the programs is that the check is done remotely. You do not need to install additional software on your computer and spend time launching it. So, what is the best plagiarism checker? Among the main advantages of an excellent online plagiarism checker, it is necessary to point out:
- uniqueness check
- spelling check
- SEO analysis
- number of words
- number of words without spaces
- drowsiness check
- synonyms for certain words
- the uniqueness of the site
- the opportunity to buy a unique ready-made text
- no need for downloading the programs
- does not depend on the speed of the Internet
- unique algorithm
- check for plagiarism of large texts
- plagiarism in abstracts, diplomas and scientific works
- articles quality improvement
So, a good free plagiarism checker website should:
- provide its users with a program performing a detailed SEO analysis of the text, determining the keywords
- be convenient and accurate
- have all analysis tools available on the main page
- be free to use
A text that is not found anywhere else is considered unique. For those who use/perform custom writing plagiarism checkers and want to put everything on the shelves there is even a individual generally accepted scale:
- 95-100% - an extremely high level of uniqueness
- 90-95% - high level
- 80-90% - average uniqueness (causes questions)
- 79% and lower - a low level of uniqueness
Replacing frequently repeated words can lead to the fact that you have to change the whole sentence, and this is another story. This method is suitable if the text that is very simple and will not suffer from synonymization of individual fragments. Sometimes you can throw out the unnecessary: other occurrences of keywords, massive constructions, uninformative text. It's a long and challenging process, but in the end, you get good and useful content.
If you combine two sentences into one, removing the extra entry of a key phrase, try to minimize the text as much as possible. Sometimes you can replace the recurring word with a pronoun.
The volume of the text can be increased with the help of additional useful information on the topic: detail each item of instruction or a list of its advantages, adding examples and facts. Of course, everything has to be done with accuracy, determining firstly how much these detailed explanations are generally appropriate.
The SEO text spamming coefficient that the paper checker for plagiarism reflects shows how often the keywords occur in the text. If it exceeds the threshold values, then the material is spammed. That means that the page can not get to the top of the SERP, because the search engines strictly follow the quality of the content. Reduce the confusion of the text: replace the most popular words with synonyms, omit them or add more text.
The optimal value of the use of repeated words in the text (including word forms) is considered to be 3.4%, according to websites for plagiarism checker. If the indicator is higher, there is a probability of the page being hit by the search engine filters for re-optimization and oversampling. Services for verifying texts show the values of these indicators. For different subjects, the norm can be different. But the index of the uniqueness should be above 90 percent. Otherwise, the page with a non-unique article will not be placed on the first page of the issue. And all efforts will be in vain.
How to use Online Plagiarism Checker?
One of the reliable ways to determine the uniqueness of the text is a unique software or simply a good free plagiarism checker. You can upload the text and copy-paste it in the field. In a few minutes, an anti-plagiarism report will be ready: a list of sources with the coincidences found and the percentage of accidents for each of them. Most of the best free plagiarism checkers act in the following ways:
- provide the possibility of changing the use of certain search engines, as well as setting the percentage of interruption and taking into account the coincidence of a given percentage;
- select matches in the text;
- provide the ability to set exceptions, pages that will not be checked;
- provide the option of viewing pages when the text matches, which is very convenient to find out, for example, where the copies of your article are.
- highlight the coincidence in the text, shows the links when the text matches and there is an opportunity to set exceptions;
- compare texts and checking the uniqueness of the picture;
- check the uniqueness of the entire site;
- allocate matching words to different colors;
- search for synonyms, spell check, replacing words, etc.
The checks are usually carried out quite quickly. All verified texts and test results will be stored in your account and protected from viewing.
To understand what is a good plagiarism checker, you have to realize how it works. Here are some examples of how one might try to make a text unique and how the plagiarism checker service operates:
- replacing the letters in words with a different layout: the program allocates such replacements with color and automatically substitutes the correct symbols for verification;
- rearrangement of words in places, synonymizing, replacement of words with obsolete ones: sources will be found by comparing the lexical composition of the text, the second uniqueness indicator by words will be low;
- dilution with linking words, change of cases and times: the algorithm will check the text without "water" and sources with similar word forms to find the original text;
- processing of the text with the services of "circumventing anti-plagiarism," inserting special characters and invisible signs: the text is automatically cleared from third-party characters, which guarantees a qualitative check;
Objectively, Google does not know how reliable your text is, whether it's interesting, or what's pictured in the image. But it monitors the behavior of users. If they do not find your content useful, the search engine will delete you from the list of favorites. Thus, plagiarism site checkers that are free and aimed at making your work easier are also aimed at making your content more qualitative. Find a chance to work with this data, use different services for comparison and continuously analyze the results.
How Can Safeassign Help Write Plagiarism-Free Content?
Plagiarism on the Internet is perhaps one of the acutest problems that are inherent in the developing sites and sites that already have established sources for obtaining and demonstrating copyright materials and the preservation of their authorship.
One of the most developed forms of plagiarism is the theft of someone else’s texts. That is primarily because accessibility and, in general, the lack of control over the information leads to the fact that almost everyone can use the provided material at their discretion.
Using the paper plagiarism checker, we can immediately determine whether the text is original or stolen. However, the quality of content is not less important than its uniqueness. It is one of the most critical indicators of websites ranking. Otherwise so many detailed studies in this area would only not be conducted.
Here are some tips on how to write unique materials:
- create the material on your own
- study the most popular sources on a given topic
- present the material according to your own style
- experiment with the text structure
- disclose the answer to the search query as widely as possible
- avoid common expressions
- use synonyms
- use adverbs
- look for materials outside the internet (books, magazines)
The most obvious way to get unique content is to have it written by journalists or copywriters, who rewrite the already existing content. Although, when hiring a copywriter consider using the resume plagiarism checker, to check his CV in forward. Usually, the term "rewriting" means working with text, more precisely - its literary processing while preserving the original sense of a narrative. Despite the fact that rewriting is considered cheaper and less creative work than its fellow copywriting (that is, the writing of unique, author's texts), there are also rules that must be strictly observed.
One of the many advantages of hiring a copywriter is that those writers can manage almost any subject, even if they’ve never heard of it before. For instance, if your Internet resource is designed to advertise and sell specific equipment, then a professional copywriter is likely to use the rewriting of specialized articles on this topic when writing such a text. He will read, learn, analyze and write the new original text. Also, the copywriters always use the best plagiarism checkers for research papers, articles, essays or whatever they need to write.
Importance of Unique Content
Why is it important to know the details of creating and protecting unique content? Because, as it was already mentioned, text (content) of the site is an essential tool for its SEO-optimization and promotion. If you want to compete on an equal footing in a virtual network, it will not be enough to provide the necessary information about your company. You have to write unique and informative articles.
This also concerns students. To be successful, they have to write the works themselves and always use student plagiarism checker.
So what content will be recognized as quality and original? How to create it? We decided to create some tips and determine the main signs that must be observed in each text:
The text should be unique and trustworthy. The more practical examples and facts you provide to prove your case, the more credibility you’ll gain. Use only objective data, such as statistics, research, experiments. If you want the reader to read the article to the end, intrigue him with new knowledge in every paragraph. To make it original, use a professional or academic plagiarism checker.
The text should be written in an unobtrusive, simple language. Do not complicate the sentences and do not use extra perplexing words. If there is an opportunity to replace a compound word with a simple one, do it. Provocative style of writing is also inappropriate. There is a great probability that the reader will not read this text until the end.
Alternate long sentences with short ones. It is proved that the article is easier to read if long sentences alternate with short sentences. Start writing the text with short sentences exclusively, and they will quickly turn into a set of statements that are not interesting to read. Remember, the writer is a creative profession. Use the language according to all rules of spelling. Build the sentence so that the most important words are located either at the beginning or at the end. Do not repeat the same words in one paragraph.
Use text design, pictures, video, audio content. The creation of original graphic materials will not only enhance the uniqueness but will also attract the attention of the audience. Complete each section of the article with information. The most logical parts are separated from each other by subheadings.
Before using the plagiarism checker for free, you need to clean the text from errors. In general, bring it in perfect order. Usually, when the words are written with errors the algorithm perceives them, and therefore the entire text, as unique.
The length of the text is very important. Some believe that the optimal length for an article is 1500-2000 characters - this is enough to provide all the necessary information, keeping the text relatively short and readable. This is true and false at the same time. The thing is that each topic, each issue, as well as various social networks will have their own ideal parameters for the length of the post. But much also depends on the type of request: whether it is commercial or informational. To find out how long your text should be, analyze the texts of your main competitors for specific queries.
Readability Readability is considered one of the most important criteria when it comes to evaluating the content. Typically, if the content is targeted at users who are not specialists, it should be relatively short, easy to read, informative and easily perceived. You need to write so that the reader can not tear himself away from the text. Under no circumstances. Work on a full-text structure (so that it does not look like a solid wall), use headings, subtitles, paragraphs, and lists where necessary. Usually, an excellent online plagiarism checker for research papers that is free, always shows how complicated your text is. Search engines prefer well-structured content — it ranks higher than regular text. Do not worry if your audience, and therefore the content, will be narrow-minded. Most likely, you will not compete with accessible content, and people will find your site on low-frequency search queries. To assess the readability and informative nature of the text, use an exceptional service. It will help clear the material of verbal garbage. Insert the text and correct the errors that the service will highlight.
Completeness of topic disclosure. Your content should be devoted to the topic of the article, not the keywords. Do not try to perfectly fit the right number of keywords in a specific place. Remember, holistic content is a mixture of connectivity and relevance. Your primary goal is to unfold the topic entirely, and not write as much text as possible. As for the selection of keywords, each subject should correspond to a particular group of narrowly interrelated vital phrases. If you want to focus your content on one key phrase, the text should be complete and not oversaturated with the key. Instead of repeating the key, again and again, find similar keywords and make the text as varied as possible.
To find these words, you can use the good old Google Keyword Planner tool. However, the schedule has one significant disadvantage — often low-frequency signals are not shown here, and the data is not enough.
Uniqueness. The universities now use the best plagiarism checker for college students. The concept of uniqueness has recently broken into two categories: technical and semantic. It is believed that technical originality is a relevant parameter that determines how many percents of a particular text duplicates other texts available on the network. And the semantic uniqueness differs in that when it is established, the general meaning of the text, its usefulness, and information content are taken into account. And the last definition is gaining popularity, because Google has become smarter, and even approached to determine it (according to the official position). How he does it? With the help of latent-semantic analysis and criteria from the assessor (representative of a search engine that manually evaluates the quality of issuance. Anyway, free online plagiarism checker for students with percentage can help you understand what uniqueness is and how to achieve it.
It is known that the text that is checked by special programs (by the method of technical uniqueness) and received a high level of originality, may not be unique according to search engines. However, there is nothing to be done about it. You'll never know for sure that the text will fall into the top due to its high uniqueness with a 100% probability. And besides, do not forget that the originality of the text is just one of the signs. All the symptoms are evaluated in a complex, from the conclusion is made whether the content is relevant or not.
Literacy. It would seem that the standard and unremarkable factor is literacy. It is evident that there should not be any spelling, grammatical or punctuation mistakes in the text. Learn to write without errors. It is important. It is not necessary to keep a special editor in the staff so that he checks each of your texts, treat everything responsibly and use particular services. Free plagiarism checker for students can help them solve this problem during studying so that they don’t make silly mistakes in their works.
Viral. The best thing that can happen to an article, is if it is actively shared in social networks and with friends. The most viral content on the Internet is provocative, contradictory and often funny. Create viral content of mass destruction! However, we do not claim that you should create texts solely for these parameters. Explore the most rare materials of your competitors to find out the exact interests of your target audience.
The Problem of Plagiarism on the Internet
Plagiarism, being a punishable violation, always existed on the internet. And it is unlikely that it will ever completely disappear from our lives. In Latin, “plagio” means stealing. This word gave birth to such a definition as plagiarism or something. Once it was just a general phenomenon, now piracy is even more topical.
The problem of plagiarism is especially acute now, at the time when the real world is in close symbiosis with the virtual world. The universities are lucky that free online plagiarism checkers for students exist, and teachers can check the uniqueness of students’ works. However, as the Internet has become very accessible to almost everybody, both technically and financially, students don’t stop stealing. So, what does it mean to understand the term plagiarism? Are you borrowing other people's ideas? Plagiarism is not so much an adopted idea as complete copying of its execution, and it is filing. Of course, piracy is a crime that leads to criminal liability. But, unfortunately, due to insufficient development of technologies for tracking users, it is quite challenging to identify the fact of theft in the global network.
There are many examples of how editors of papers or magazines use the Internet materials, immodestly publishing whole pieces of other people's work under their name. This problem is especially acute for a novice web journalist or writer. In these cases, the presence of a handwritten draft can serve as indisputable proof of authorship. Most of the unique articles exist only in electronic form.
So, how to protect your content from a plagiarist? Paper plagiarism checkers that are free, allow checking the text for plagiarism, and, in case of finding copies, the author can take appropriate measures. It is a definite advantage, but one should not rely entirely on such protection. The author himself must first take care of his art, periodically updating the content. And, in the end, it's better to always post your articles on relevant sites, than to wait until Internet thieves illegally copy it.
Another type of theft in the web-space was fixed relatively recently. There is plagiarism in using the plots of films, series, literary works as a basis for creating computer games. Unfortunately, there are even fewer definitive legal aspects of this issue.
The problem of plagiarism is widely spread on the Internet. The search for plagiarism texts is often carried out with the help of the same search engines. Since they index the contents of the entire Internet, it is not difficult to identify similar documents.
Of course, some organizations struggle with plagiarism in different ways. Sometimes they immediately go to court, then the chance to win the case is quite high.
Preventive measures are the most effective. Instead of fighting the consequences, do not let the thief find yourself in the search engine index before you. Provide fast indexing (Twitter, regular updating of content on the site, publication of announcements in bookmarks and the purchase of links from news portals). Demonstrate your right to text in search engines. In Google, such an opportunity is within the tools for webmasters. All webmasters regularly check the content for originality. The customer reviews the uniqueness of the work before buying — the amount of written text on the Internet increases in geometric progression. Soon, there will be no phrases that have never come across in the past. We have to pay serious attention to verification and control. In this case, individual analyzers help out.
Note: another way to protect information can be to create locks using various programs and methods to block the "right key" in the mouse. However, this is not so effective but still has the right to exist as one of the means. To protect the image, you can apply various watermarks and place them in a reduced form, which in general can favorably affect the security.
Speaking of students, they may be involved in the theft of other people’s works more than anybody else. However, using free plagiarism checkers online for college students became very popular during the past several years, and it shows they are trying to solve this problem themselves.
The uniqueness and relevance of content have become not just ranking factors. Algorithms of semantic analysis from the main search engines have advanced far ahead. It is essential to understand that real uniqueness is now not enough for a search engine to “like” your text. Google is continuously improving the methods for assessing the relevance of the text to a particular query. Roughly speaking, your writing should have its style, the speech should be live — abound with synonyms and non-standard phrases, and the topic should be maximally disclosed in comparison with competitors. Adding something new and useful to text content, you increase the chances of a better ranking. Often the site that has copied the text from your resource can be indexed faster, and it will be considered the primary source. That is a fairly common problem for online stores.
To write a quality text that will receive a high rating of essay checker for plagiarism that is free to use, adhere to the basic principles:
- use as few sources as possible;
- for writing highly specialized articles, study profile forums and directories, consult with specialists in this field;
- get rid of "water" and general phrases about "experienced professionals in the modern world";
- build short sentences;
- in each sentence, answer the specific question.
For internet marketers, SEO professionals, copywriters, and entrepreneurs it is especially important to understand what is unique and what is plagiarized. This parameter shows how the information that is ready to be published on the site is new to future visitors. The uniqueness of the text is divided into two types. The first is technical uniqueness. That is what the plagiarism checker determines. The technical specificity of the text can be achieved by changing the structure of the writing, replacing key elements with synonyms.
The second kind of uniqueness is semantic. This type of specificity is more challenging to achieve, as topics should contain at least a new approach to presenting information and the author’s personal opinion. It is not superfluous to dilute the text content with unique graphics material, complementing the article.
Qualitative and unique content is one of the keys to a successful promotion of any website.
That's why an excellent free online plagiarism checker with percentage board of unique text should always be at hand. The service will allow you to get a detailed analysis of the writing and determine the originality of the article in percentage.
There are many services for checking the uniqueness of texts. You can use them both for self-written materials, and for those that you order from copywriters. Checking for uniqueness is one of the critical steps in compiling literate and professional text content for the site. It will help to avoid the appearance of non-unique materials on the Internet overall.
If you use already published content, while the technical uniqueness of the material is below 40%, then the search engines will not allow your site to advance further 20-30 pages of the issue. The reason is that your equipment will not be of use to visitors.
However, according to the latest research in this area, it is not necessary to achieve the 90-100% of uniqueness. More technologically advanced sites with new design solutions and a thoughtful user interface on which the original graphic content is published can afford to fill the site with content with the 60-80% of uniqueness.
Until now there is no reliable way to protect content from thieves, except running it through the research paper plagiarism checker, determining/fixing its author and hope no one will steal it. Each of the prevention methods may not work correctly. Many webmasters are faced with the problem where they begin to take content and post it on other Internet sites without specifying copyright and authorship and even without putting back a link. If you do not start to struggle with this problem, your work will be exploited again and again.
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Plagiarism? What Would That Be?
According to numerous definitions that can be found online, plagiarism is intentional or unintentional copying of someone’s work or ideas by trying to make them pass as one’s own . While it is not always done by intention, even your failure to quote an author of some idea is considered plagiarism. Moreover, some college professors will even accuse you of not referencing “any idea that is not yours”. Unfortunately, this practice is quite common, which is why so many students feel stressed about using sources or fail to do it right. Knowing how to check for plagiarism before submission remains the only solution that will keep you safe from trouble because even if you paraphrase some text, it cannot guarantee that your paper will be flawless.
Unfortunately, things can easily become even more complex when your task involves writing a definition essay or something where you must provide statistics or sources that relate to encyclopedias or dictionaries. Any student who has faced these issues before will know what we mean. Our safe assignment plagiarism checker tool has been custom-tailored to catch these occurrences by providing you with a list of suggestions that you can fix. It is the only way how you can keep your academic future safe. Since there is no definite list of all things that your college professor (or Turnitin plagiarism detector) may consider as “similarity”, your only safe bet is to attack the system from the other side by checking your paper in advance.
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It is one of those questions that would seem clear, yet some students in their first year of education have not yet faced the woes of turning to things like Turnitin online plagiarism checker. This cloud-sourced plagiarism detection service has some negative sides to it. While Turnitin is not free, it has been around since 1997, storing every text that has been submitted. It means that when you check assignment for plagiarism through it, it remains there and is compared to the other material that has been shared in the past. For example, when you work with a group of fellow students and one of you submits your materials to Turnitin similarity check along with their part, it will show that you have serious plagiarism issues. Imagine this scenario with your university gradebook and you clearly see how it ends up.
In any case, when a student uses a plagiarism checker online, it increases one’s chances of writing a paper that has no similarities or sources that have been cited incorrectly. Speaking of your references, some of them may show up as plagiarism as well since it is not possible to avoid them entirely. As long as you cite them correctly, you should be safe. Still, if you have too many similarities because of your quotes, it is recommended to paraphrase them in a different way. Our anti plagiarism check helps you to make it possible free of charge by checking things as much as you would like.
Plagiarism – the Dead End of Your Academic Future
While every student may know about having one’s grade decreased because of minor plagiarism report issues, things are not that simple with the quotes. When your paper has over 70% of similarity index, it can end up with the “F” grade or even worse.
Here are some consequences that you may face as a result of academic dishonesty:
Low academic grade and a request to write your paper again from scratch. It is the best solution that can be offered by your college professor if your similarity index is not high and contains ideas that could have been put differently.
Detention from the course. If your academic papers include high plagiarism ratios, it may end up with course detention and an opportunity to either prove your innocence or fill a complaint to a special committee to check your papers manually.
A permanent exclusion from your college or university. Unfortunately, it is often the case with some universities.
Your credentials are entered in the blacklist database of academic writers and/or publishers . In this particular case, you will have to ensure that you have no copyright infringements because a special copyright checker tool will be applied before any publishing is carried out.
While it is not likely that you will face the worst scenario, it is always possible that your educational institution approaches the matters of plagiarism in a much more serious way than you can imagine.
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Plagiarism has always existed, but the availability of information and technology has made this practice much easier – and more traceable. With so many resources available at the click of a button, there is an increased emphasis on original thought and educational integrity in today’s classroom. As a way to help tackle this challenge and provide instructors and students with another tool to use on the journey toward graduation, we are proud to introduce Blackboard SafeAssign for Open LMS and Moodle™.
Blackboard SafeAssign compares submitted assignments against a set of academic papers to identify areas of overlap between the submitted assignment and existing works. The Originality report provided by Blackboard SafeAssign provides detailed information about the matches found between a student’s submitted paper and existing sources. Both instructors and students can use the report to review assignment submissions for originality and create opportunities to identify how to properly attribute sources rather than paraphrase.
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Safe Assign is a plagiarism detection and prevention tool that is part of Blackboard. It compares submitted assignments to the following sources:
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Note: University of Rochester is currently not providing students the opportunity to submit to the Global Reference database.
About Safe Assign
Information for Students
Using Safe Assign in your Course
Setting up an Assignment with Safe Assign
Grading using Safe Assign
How To Create a SafeAssignment (PDF)
How To Read Your Report (PDF)
The University of Rochester highly recommends that instructors provide students with the option to view their reports before final submission and to exclude these initial submissions from being stored in the institutional database. Check with your Blackboard support to learn more about how to allow this.
The University of Rochester also discourages the use of the Direct Submit option. Students should be aware that their papers are being submitted to the system to be checked for plagiarism. Direct Submit bypasses this step.
Please note that once submitted, the Safe Assign Originality Report may take some time to process. Processing can take anywhere from minutes to days, depending on the volume of submissions to the central system. During busy times in the academic year (midterms and end of semester) the process is subject to take longer.
Note: Safe Assign is a Blackboard shared, hosted solution and is subject to its own maintenance periods and downtimes. University of Rochester has no control over these. When University of Rochester is made aware of any maintenance or downtimes, they will be posted in Announcements.
Note that you must first turn on the Safe Assign tools in your course before the options in the documentation become available. Tools can be turned on under Customization, Tool Availability.
About the Originality Report
The system generates an originality report that offers suggestions about possible sources of plagiarism. Please note that this is not definitive, nor comprehensive; the instructor still needs to review the submission.
Risks of False Positives:
- Does not always distinguish properly quoted material
- Cannot distinguish between common phrases and truly proprietary expressions
Risks of False Negatives:
- Limited search
- Cannot detect disguised plagiarism
Results returned in a SafeAssign Originality Report may not be identical to results returned by a consumer internet search service (e.g. Google, Bing, etc.) for any individual sentence or phrase. The results from the SafeAssign service are only meant to be a tool for use at the discretion of the teacher or instructor. Due to the size and scope of both academic subject matter and the number of resources searched by SafeAssign, the results are not meant to guarantee or otherwise indicate that plagiarism has or has not occurred. The assessment of potential plagiarism should reside in the hands of the instructor, and SafeAssign results should always be considered in the context of other resources and good judgment.
SafeAssign does not distinguish between direct quotations and text lifted from a source; students who are quoting correctly will likely have reports that indicate overlap with these sources. The reports are easy to read because these instances are easily noted.
Conversely, SafeAssign does not catch essays that include plagiarized ideas or concepts, nor can it detect uncited paraphrasing that dramatically changes the wording of an original source while maintaining that source’s organization and/or sentence structure.
The implications of originality reports are not always self-evident. Teachers need to discuss the interpretation of these reports with students and allow students an opportunity to familiarize themselves with the tool.
If you have questions about interpreting the originality report, please contact a librarian or your academic honesty office.
More on Originality Reports
FERPA and HIPAA Policy Information
FERPA considerationsAccording to FERPA, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, education records that identify students without their consent may not be disclosed to third parties.
- Students should be advised to remove their name and any personal information (name, SSN, Student ID) from within the paper and title page, or the header or footer before submitting assignments to Safe Assign.
- If a student wants to voluntarily leave their name on their paper, they may do so.
Additionally, this “cloud” service is not HIPAA compliant, therefore assignments that contain patient information should not be created with Safe Assignment and students should not be asked to submit papers containing patient information.
Plagiarism Prevention Strategies
The following are tips on preventing plagiarism:
- Require multiple drafts of assignments before final submission
- Design original assignments that are hard to plagiarize
- Provide aids to comprehension of complex texts
- Provide multiple low-stakes assignments
- Provide clear guidance on preventing plagiarism
Guidelines for Use
Use SafeAssign as part of a balanced approach to encourage academic integrity and foster student success:
- by providing clear instructions and guidance for assignments
- by encouraging students to manage time and make progress prior to deadlines for submission of graded assignments
- by making other resources known to students (e.g., writing center)
- by using it as a deterrent, not as a “caught you” enforcement tool
Openly disclose the use of SafeAssign for this course on the syllabus and at the time assignments are announced, including clarifying the choices made about retention of student work (Local, or No-Retention).
For any given assignment:
- use SafeAssign for all papers;
- not submit papers arbitrarily to SafeAssign, for the purpose of reviewing originality reports for papers deemed “suspicious;”
- or consider exceptions for specific students, who may object to the retention of their work by SafeAssign, working with the University Ombudsperson to resolve any conflict
Faculty should make the final determination of originality and integrity. The originality reports, and the machine judgment that generates them, provide a set of useful resources for comparison. However, there is no substitute for human judgment and assessment prior to generating feedback for students or making a determination about honesty and integrity.
To ensure privacy, please ask students to remove identification (e.g., names and student numbers) from submissions because:
- Blackboard will automatically show student’s names to assignments when instructors are viewing, or downloading.
- removing the identifying information from the document allows it to be preserved in the repository without affecting the student’s educational privacy.
More Information on Plagiarism Software
It’s important to note that plagiarism software has a tendency to produce “False positives”,meaning that a paper is noted as potetially plagiarized when in fact it is not. The following articles provide more insight on this matter.
False Positives on Plagiarism, from Inside Higher Ed, 2009
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/03/13/detect
False Security, from Inside Higher Ed, 2015
http://www.slate.com/articles/life/inside_higher_ed/2015/07/turnitin_and_safeassign_plagiarism_detection_programs_why_are_they_all_ineffective.html
A Comparative Analysis of SafeAssign and Turnitit, from Inquiry, The Journal of the Virginia Community Colleges, 2014
http://commons.vccs.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1012&context=inquiry
Gauging the effectiveness of anti-plagiarism software: An empirical study of second language graduate writers, from the Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 2012
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1475158511000749
Safe Assign is currently available to courses in School of Medicine and Dentistry, School of Nursing, Eastman Institute of Oral Health, Warner School of Education, and Simon Business School. Faculty in Arts, Sciences, and Engineering should contact the Academic Honesty liaison for more information or alternative approaches.
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