It is important that instructors and adjuncts are aware that Blackboard has an anti-plagiarism tool. You can setup SafeAssign in your Blackboard shell and use this tool to scan your student papers for incidences of plagiarism. Links below provide SafeAssign Video Tutorials, but there are also Tutorials within Blackboard itself that can help you with the "How to's" of SafeAssign.
Ottawa University academic honesty, academic integrity and plagiarism policies are also linked below to help instructobettunderstand university process and procedure.
What is SafeAssign?
Safe Assign is the Plagiarism software program that is connected to Blackboard. Professors have the choice of whether or not to put your papers through SafeAssign. If they choose to do so, they will upload your papers to Blackboard and check whether or not these have been plagiarized by setting up SafeAssign in Blackboard. A SafeAssign Report is created by the program which will provide them with information about the percentage of plagiarism in your paper and what exactly has been plagiarized.
Using SafeAssign in Blackboard
Video Tutorials
Ottawa University Student Handbook 2013-14 Policies
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Academic Honesty
http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/7fafbb28#/7fafbb28/12
Cheating and Plagiarism
‘http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/7fafbb28#/7fafbb28/16
Faculty Forum on Plagiarism
Ottawa University Anti-Plagiarism Policy
Safe Assign in Blackboard: Preventing Plagiarism at Ottawa University
Information Literacy Course for Adjuncts