SafeAssign DirectSubmit

Watch the how-to video

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1. From the course Content tab, select “View course & institution tools” under “Details and Actions”:

Within the Details & Actions area, the blue text View course & institution tools below Books & Tools has a red border around it indicating that this is the option you will be clicking.

2. Click “SafeAssign” under “Instructor tools” in the Books & Course Tools panel:

Left red arrow pointing to the safeassign option.

3. Click “Upload file” or “Copy/paste text” to add a submission:

Displaying the Upload file button and Copy and paste text button.

  • If you chose to upload a file, drag the file into the upload box or click “Upload a file” to attach the student's submission:

Drag files here supports zip, doc, docx, docm, ppt, pptx, odt, txt, pdf, rtf and html files. Maximum size is 10 MB or click on the Upload a file button with a black border around it.

  • If you chose "Copy/paste text", add a title for the submission under "Title" and paste the content of the document under "Text":

title and text boxes where you will be entering the text for both Title and Text.

4. Click the checkboxes in the popup window to specify whether you would like to check for plagiarism, add the file to the institutional database, and/or make the submission available to other instructors in the course:

The check for plagiarism and add to institutional database options are switched to on.

5. Click "Submit". SafeAssign may take a few moments to process the submission. You may refresh the page to check the status of the report:

Two buttons with the word cancel in the gray box and the word Submit in the black box.

6. Once the report is complete, the “Matching” column will reflect the degree to which the submission matches other documents in the database. Select the icon in the “Report” column to view detailed information:

The left red arrow is pointing to the safeassign report icon right below Report column header.

7. The originality report will highlight areas of the submission which match other documents in the institutional and global databases. Click "View Report Summary" to see an overview of findings for the submission. See SafeAssign Originality Report for more information on the report and interpreting SafeAssign scores.

The submitted work is being displayed via the safeassign report. On the left side is the user paper and the information being highlighted that is matching a source. In the top right hand corner, the View Report Summary has a red border around it.

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