SafeAssign compares submitted assignments against a database of academic work to identify areas of overlap between the submitted assignment and existing works. This tool can also be used to create opportunities for students to review their submitted work for SafeAssign to review in order to assist them in properly attributing sources. Follow the directions below to use SafeAssign with assignments.
Step-by-Step Guide
How to Create an Assignment Using SafeAssign
- On the Course Menu, click the content area to which you want to add an assignment.
- Point to Assessments, and then click Assignment.
- On the Create Assignment page, in the Name and Color box, type a name for the assignment.
- In the Instructions area, type instructions for your students, if desired.
- Under Assignment Files, attach any files you wish to the assignment (such as a rubric or grading information).
- Under Due Dates, add a Due Date. This feature is optional.
- Under Grading, type the points possible for the assignment (set Points Possible to zero for extra credit Assignments). Then set the options for Submission Details, Grading Options, and Display of Grades.
- The Submission Details menu includes Assignment Type, Number of attempts, and Plagiarism Tools.
- Assignment Type
- Individual Submission is the standard; each student submits their own work.
- Group Submission: If you'd like students to submit a Group paper, this is the correct option. Selecting Group Submission will bring up a list of groups in your course. Select the Group or Groups that the assignment is for and move those to the column on the right. In the following example, the Assignment will be issued to Sample Groups 2 and 4.
- Number of Attempts
- You can choose to allow a Single, Multiple, or Unlimited attempts at an Assignment. When you select Multiple Attempts, enter the Maximum number of attempts and choose which scoring option you'd like to utilize: Last Graded Attempt, Highest Grade, Lowest Grade, First Graded Attempt, or Average of Graded Attempt. The Unlimited option does not require a "Maximum Attempts" value.
- SafeAssign Plagiarism Tools
- To use SafeAssign to check submissions for plagiarism, turn on the Check submissions for plagiarism using SafeAssign option.
- To allow your students to view their SafeAssign Originality Report select the check box by Allow students to view SafeAssign originality report for their attempts. This feature allows the student to view the same originality report that the instructor receives. This feature can be used with Single Attempt, Multiple Attempts, or Unlimited Attempts. This is a great feature if you would like your students to be able to submit multiple drafts of the same assignment in order for them to check their own papers prior to submitting the final paper for a grade. SafeAssign recognizes a student's multiple attempts for an individual assignment as submitted by the same student for the same assignment. SafeAssign does not check the contents of the student’s current attempt against content from previous submissions. Please visit our How to Read the SafeAssign Originality Report page for more information.
- Select the check box by Exclude submissions from the Institutional and Global Reference Databases if you would like for your students' submissions to not be included in the Institutional and Global Reference Databases. If you leave this box unchecked the student still has the option to exclude their submission from the Global Reference Database at the time they submit their assignment, but not from the Institutional Database.
- The Grading Options menu includes options to enable Anonymous Grading and/or assign a delegate to grade this Assignment.
- With Enable Anonymous Grading, you're able to set a date at which the grading is no longer anonymous, either by a specific date or after all submissions have been graded.
- Using Delegated Grading will allow you to assign the grading of this Assignment to another user in your course. You can also choose to delegate grading to multiple graders. Each grader provides separate grades, feedback and notes to students. Users with the ability to reconcile grades may review all the grades given to a submission and set the official grade for the attempt. By default, instructors have reconciling abilities.
- Display of Grades allows you to set how the scores are displayed in your Grade Book and to students, if the grade should be included in your total score, if the grade is shown to students, and if you'd like to display statistics (average and median) for this item to students in My Grades.
- Under Availability, choose if the assignment will be available and set your availability dates (optional). You can also choose to "Track Number of Views".
- When you have finished creating your assignment, click Submit.
References
For more information, refer to Blackboard's Use SafeAssign in Assignments page.
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