SafeAssign is a plagiarism prevention service that allows you to protect the originality of work and ensure a fair playing ground for all of your students. SafeAssign prevents plagiarism by detecting unoriginal content in student papers within your existing teaching and learning environment. SafeAssign can also further deter plagiarism by creating opportunities to educate students [...]

SafeAssign checks papers and assignments (within Blackboard) against a collection of databases, including Internet – comprehensive index of billions of documents available for public access. ProQuest ABI/Inform database – millions of current articles, updated weekly. Institutional document – archives containing all papers submitted by users from CCCT&I, CVCC and RCCC. Global Reference Database- a collection [...]

When a student submits a paper to SafeAssign, the paper is automatically indexed as part of that institution’s Institutional Database. Each institution registered with SafeAssign has it’s own Institutional Database index that is kept separate from other institution’s database indexes. Your Institutional Database index is used as a source for checking papers submitted from your [...]

When a student submits a paper through SafeAssign, the student is also presented with an option to have the paper indexed as part of the Global Reference Database in addition to being automatically indexed in the Institutional Database. In other words, the student must opt-in to the Global Reference Database. This Global Reference Database index [...]