Manually add student work to SafeAssign

Please refer to SafeAssign in Your Course for more information.

Accessing SafeAssign

Uploading a Student File to SafeAssign

Copy/Pasting Student Work to SafeAssign


Accessing SafeAssign

1. Go into your new Blackboard course

2. Click on View course & institution tools

The left red arrow is pointing to the View Course & Institution tools option.

3. Click SafeAssign

The left red arrow is pointing to the SafeAssign option.


Uploading a Student File to SafeAssign

1. Click Upload file

The downward red arrow is pointing to the gray box with the black lettering spelling Upload File.

2. Turn on Check for plagiarism. If you want to add the paper to the RIC SafeAssign database, turn on Add to institutional database which will help deter students from giving their papers to other students. Now click Upload a file

The top left red arrow with the number 1 is pointing to the Check for plagiarism and Add to institutional database options are turned on and the other left red arrow with the number 2 is pointing to the gray box with black lettering spelling out Upload a file.

3. Select the student's file and then click Open

The left red arrow with the number 1 is pointing to the file and the downward red arrow with the number 2 is pointing to the gray box with black lettering spelling Open.

4. Click Submit

The downward red arrow is pointing the black rectangle with white lettering spelling Submit.

5. You will see the message, "Your file was successfully submitted" and the file is being processed

The right red arrow is pointing to the black screen with the white letting spelling Your file was successfully submited.

6. Once it's done processing, you will see the match percentage and you can access the SafeAssign report.

The right red arrow is pointing to the report icon which looks like small paper.l


Copy/Pasting Student Work to SafeAssign

1. Click Copy/paste text.

The downward red arrow is pointing to the gray rectangle with black lettering spelling Copy/paste text.

2. Turn on Check for plagiarism. If you want to add the paper to the RIC SafeAssign database, turn on Add to institutional database which will help deter students in giving their responses to other students.

The top left red arrow is pointing to the Check for plagiarism and Add to institutional database options are turned on.

3. Enter in a title and paste in the student's text.

The top left arrow with number 1 is pointing to the text field box below Title and the other right red arrow with the number 2 is pointing to the text field for text.

4. Click Submit

The downward red arrow is pointing to the black rectangle with lettering spelling Submit.

5. You will see the message "Your file was successfully submitted" and the file is being processed

The right red arrow is pointing to the black screen with the white letting spelling Your file was successfully submited.

6. Once it's done processing, you will see the match percentage and you can access the SafeAssign report.

The right red arrow is pointing to the report icon which looks like small paper.l