I recently had a request from an instructor to provide instructions for students on how to use SafeAssign. Here is a brief tutorial that you can put on Blackboard that will show your students how to upload SafeAssignments and interpret a SafeAssign report.
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If you are not familiar with SafeAssign, it is a tool in Blackboard that you can use to scan student papers for potential plagiarism. The real benefit of SafeAssign is that it can be used to educate students, rather than as a “gotcha.” I encourage instructors to provide students with the opportunity to submit a first draft of their papers (using the “draft” option in SafeAssign). This way, a student can review the SafeAssign report and make sure they are quoting and citing appropriately before submitting their final draft. The instructor tutorial for SafeAssign is available in the right column of this blog, under “YouTube Tutorials.”
