Welcome to Blackboard Training: SafeAssign, brought to you by the Center for Innovation. In this training you will learn the SafeAssign tool in Blackboard, including how you submit an assignment through SafeAssign and how to view SafeAssign assignments and instructor feedback. Written instructions for this training are available at the bottom of your screen. IWU utilizes SafeAssign for most major papers submitted at the university. SafeAssign is a tool that compares your paper against hundreds of thousands of other papers and resources. The purpose of having you submit your paper is twofold: First, it allows your paper to be added into the SafeAssign database and can help prevent cheating of future students and second, it compares your paper for originality and can help your professor correct mistakes, verify research, and in the worst case, catch cheating. To submit an assignment requiring SafeAssign you first must browse to the assignments submission tool in your course. Under the desired SafeAssign area you will click on the ‘View Complete’ link. Under the ‘Upload SafeAssignment’ screen you will have an area where you can enter comments to your faculty member and then attach your file using the ‘Browse’ button. You will then need to check the box next to ‘I agree to submit my paper to the Global Reference Database’ before selecting ‘Submit’. After the assignment has been submitted and is scored by your faculty member, you can go back into the SafeAssign assignment area to view your score and feedback. To do this you will need to follow similar steps to the ones you used when you submitted the assignment initially. You will click on the appropriate content area menu button (i.e. Submit Assignments, Assignments, etc.) and then select the ‘View/Complete’ link under the desired assignment. This will take you to the ‘View SafeAssignment’ screen where you can view your score, feedback, and SafeAssign report. Note: this is different from the normal method that you would use to view your grades for a regular assignment. Typically you would go through the ‘My Grades’ section and then click on the hyperlinked score to access your score and feedback. However SafeAssign assignments are not able to be accessed in this fashion and if you try to access them this way you will get an error message. Therefore, you will need to access the score for SafeAssignment by going back to the assignment and selecting the ‘View/Complete’ link again.