Synchronizing SafeAssign in your Course

Delphi Center for Teaching & Learning | 502.852.8833 | louisville.edu/delphi Updated: 2/25/2015

ThesedirectionswillexplainhowtosynchronizeyourcoursewiththeSafeAssignserversforuseoftheplagiarismpreventiontool.Thismustbedoneafteryoucreateyourfirstassignmentusingtheplagiarismfunctionsorafteryoucopycontentfromonecoursetoanother.

1. FromtheCourseManagementarea,ClickSafeAssignunderCourseTools.

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2. ClickSafeAssignItems

3. ClickSynchronizethiscourse

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4. Youshouldseeamessagesayingyourcourseisbeingsynchronized.Afterthismessagedisappears,youwillhavesuccessfullysynchronizedyourcoursewiththeSafeAssignservers.

5. Thefollowingformwillappear.InsectiononearetheSubmissionOptionsforthispaperorgroupofpapers.

6. SelecttheUploadOptions(shownascheckboxesabove)

a. SubmitasDraft:ASafeAssignreportwillbegenerated,howeverthepaperwillnotbeaddedtotheinstitutionaldatabaseandwillnotbeusedtocheckotherpapers.

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b. SkipPlagiarismChecking:Addspaperstotheinstitutionaldatabasewithoutcheckingforcontentcopiedfromothersources.Thisisusefulifaninstructorwantstouploadpapersfromearliercoursestoensurethatcurrentstudentsarenotreusingwork.

7. SelectUploadFileandbrowseforthefile.Individualpapersaswellaspapersthataregroupedina.ZIPfileareaccepted.

8. Orasanalternative,youcanselectCopy/PasteDocumentandpastethetextofthepapertextintothe“Papertext”field.

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9. Finally,tofinishtheprocessafterallofyourchoicesaremade,youcanpressthe“Submit”

buttonlocatedatthebottomrightsideoftheform.

PrivateVersesSharedtabsinDirectSubmit.

TheexamplesaboveshowaDirectSubmitintothePrivatefolderofaninstructor.Asyouknow,Directsubmithastwomodes.Theyare:

• Shared–AccessiblebyanyonewhocanaccesstheControlPanelforthecourse.Thoseindividualscaninclude:

o Otherinstructors–co-instructors/teaminstructorso TeachingAssistantsforthecourse.

• Private–Onlyaccessiblebytheinstructorofthecourse.o Ifyouhaveprivatefoldersfordocuments,thosedocumentscanbeaccessed

fromwithinanycourseinwhichyouareassignedasaninstructor.

IfyouwouldliketohaveallinstructorslistedinacourseaswellasTeachingAssistantshaveaccesstothepaperssubmittedthroughDirectSubmit,youcanchoosetousetheShared(Tab)foldertodoaDirectSubmit.

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JustclicktheSharedtabbeforestartingtheDirectSubmitprocess.Thenfollowsteps3-10inthelistabove.ThiswillallowthefilessubmittedintheSharedfoldertobeseenbyanyTeachingAssistantoradditionalinstructorwhoisassignedtothecourseinwhichthedirectsubmitwascompleted.