The Blackboard WebCT system hosts lectures, forums and assignments for online education.
SafeAssign is a feature within the Blackboard online education system that checks for student plagiarism by comparing the text of a SafeAssignment to a database of work. Students who are given a SafeAssignment need to upload text files through the Blackboard system. Faculty can upload electronic papers to SafeAssign for plagiarism checking at any time. The SafeAssign system can handle files with the following formats: DOC, TXT, RTF, HTML and ZIP files that contain any of the supported file types. So documents created with PowerPoint will need to be converted to a compatible format before they can be uploaded to SafeAssign.
Instructions
1. Open the PowerPoint presentation you want to upload to SafeAssign. Since the standard PowerPoint format is not recognized by SafeAssign, you will need to save the PowerPoint in a compatible file type.
2. Click the "Office" button and click "Save As." In the drop-down menu next to "Save As Type," choose one of the SafeAssign-compatible formats: HTML or RTF from the list. The HTML format is called "Web Page" in PowerPoint, and the RTF format is called "Outline." Click "Save."
3. Log into Blackboard with your username and password. Click the link to the class for which you have the SafeAssignment, if you are a student. Click the link for the SafeAssignment in the class area, then choose "Submit." Browse to the location of the file on your computer, select it and then click "Open." If you are a teacher, choose the "Direct Submit" link from the "Teach View" of your Blackboard screen. Choose the online location for saving the papers, then click "Submit" and browse for the file or files you want to upload. Click "Submit."
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