Safe+Assignment

= = =**SafeAssign**™ = toc **SafeAssign**™ is a plagiarism prevention service, offered by Blackboard to its Blackboard Learning System Enterprise, Vista Enterprise and CE Enterprise clients. This service helps educators prevent plagiarism by detecting unoriginal content in student papers. In addition to acting as a plagiarism deterrent, it also has features designed to aid in educating students about plagiarism and importance of proper attribution of any borrowed content.

Plagiarism vs Copyright infringement
Plagiarism and Copyright infringement are similar concepts. According to Plagiarism Checker, plagiarism is using someone else's work without giving proper credit, Copyright infringement is using someone else's creative work without authorization or compensation. Schools enforce **plagiarism**, while the courts enforce **copyright infringement.** For more information on Copyright Infringement see this wiki's @Copyright page.

**How does** **SafeAssign**™ **work?**

 * From** **SafeAssign**™ about web page:

**SafeAssign**™ checks all submitted papers against the following databases:
 * **Internet** - comprehensive index of documents available for public access on the Internet
 * **ProQuest ABI/Inform database** with over 1,100 publication titles and about 2.6 million articles from '90s to present time, updated weekly (exclusive access)
 * **Institutional document archives** containing all papers submitted to SafeAssign by users in their respective institutions
 * **Global Reference Database** containing papers that were volunteered by students from Blackboard client institutions to help prevent cross-institutional plagiarism.

Safe Assignment Screen Shot of Results:
Note that this paper had a 3% return on matching information. This matching information was due to students in this class labeling their papers as '707 Assigment 1'. Since this line in the example paper matched lines from other papers, Safe Assign returned a hit for a match. The 3% represents 3% of the total work.



**References**
Blackboard Inc. (2011). //About Safe Assignment//. Retrieved November 15, 2011, from Safe Assignment Wiki: @http://wiki.safeassign.com/display/SAFE/About+SafeAssign

Hom, D. (2006). //Plagiarism vs Copyright Infringement//. Retrieved November 15, 2011, from Plagiarism Checker : @http://www.plagiarismchecker.com/plagiarism-vs-copyright.php