How to create a SafeAssignment (mp4)

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In this

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tutorial, I will show you how to create a safe
assignment.

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SafeAssign is an anti-plegarism application
that helps you

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to check the originality of students' work. To
create a safe assignment,

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click Assignments. Then, Edit View.

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In the drop-down box, select SafeAssignments.

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And then click Go. Now we need to provide a
name.

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For example, Essay 2.

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Points possible, let's say 10.

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In this text box, you can type in the
instructions for your student about this assignment.

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If you check Yes for availability,

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this SafeAssignments link will appear
immediately.

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And the student will be able to access it.

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Otherwise, you can check No. And then later
you change to Yes when you want the student to

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access. You can also make this link available
in a limited

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time, in a certain time interval. You can
check Display After and Display Until boxes.

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And then set up the time and the date

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when you want this link to be accessible by
your

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student. If you choose No for the draft,
Blankboard will submit

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students' paper into the institutional
database after they check

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the originality and create the SafeAssign
report.

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An institutional database is a database on
Blankboard server that collects students'

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paper in a particular institution. So for us,
our institutional database

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is the CUNY database. So in this database, it
collects all the student papers from

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all CUNY campuses. When the professor creates

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SafeAssign and select No for the draft.

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So if you choose Yes, then the Blankboard will
only check the student's paper

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and create SafeAssign report.

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And it will not send student papers into the
institutional database.

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And for students viewable, if you say Yes,

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then students will be able to view the
SafeAssign report themselves.

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They can only, of course, view their own
SafeAssign report,

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not their classmates. So, the Urgent checking

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will allow you to set your paper to a high
priority in

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the queue for the checking. But if we all
choose Yes,

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and the system definitely can't check all the
papers, so then it will still check as it's

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not urgent. It will just put the paper in the
queue.

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So we should try, we should use this with
caution.

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And the optional assignment section allows you
to option ally

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create an announcement. I'm sorry, this is
optional announcement section.

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And so if you say Yes, and you should provide
a subject and a message,

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and the system will create an announcement in
your course announcement area automatically.

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So now I just choose No, and then I click
Submit,

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and OK. So a SafeAssignment is created.