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Comparison of SafeAssign and TurnitinBoth SafeAssign and Turnitin Direct are available within your Blackboard courses, which means that faculty have two optionsfor setting up assignments that will be checked for improper citation or potential plagiarism. These services both help you detectunoriginal content in student papers by comparing them to sources on the internet, library databases and other student papers.However, Turnitin Direct includes some additional features that are not available in SafeAssign, such as GradeMark, an onlinepaperless grading, rubric and feedback tool, and PeerMark, a tool that facilitates peer review so that students can evaluateeach other's work anonymously. Other differences are outlined below.Turnitin DirectSafeAssignIntegrated with Blackboard Course Management System Yes, Available under Assessments Yes, Use Assignment Tool in BB Select Turnitin Direct Assignment In submission details check submissions for plagiarism usingSafeAssignSupported File formatsMost common file typesMost common file types File types accepted include: MS Word (doc anddocx), txt, rtf, html, pdf, zip (for batch file upload bythe instructor)SafeAssign only supports file types that are convertible to plaintext. This includes the following file types: .doc, docx, ppt, pptx,1
Turnitin Direct Faculty have reported that Turnitin would acceptunsupported formats such as Mac's Pages but itwouldn't produce the originality report. At one point intime and may be still the case, students uploadingfrom Google drive would experience issues.SafeAssignpdf, txt, odt, rtf, html, and htm. Spreadsheet files are notsupported. SafeAssign also accepts ZIP files and processes files that matchany of these file types. Files of any other format will NOT be checked throughSafeAssign. Yes YesRubrics YesStudents can view Originality Reports Yes2
Turnitin DirectSafeAssignOptions for Exclusions in generating reports Yes – Instructors can choose to: No – no option to exclude bibliography and quotes. Exclude small matches (by word countor percentage) Cannot exclude references, quoted material, or smallmatches from the report. Exclude quotesExclude BibliographySupports multiple submissions of the same assignment YES – supports Multiple Submissions ifthe second option (immediately reportscan be overwritten until due date) isselected. Yes, if you allow students to submit more than oneattempt, each new attempt is recognized asoriginating from the same student and the sameassignment, and is not checked against contentin previous attempts.3
Turnitin DirectSafeAssignOverwritten or resubmitted papers may not generate a newSimilarity Report for a full 24 hours. This delay is automaticand allows resubmissions to correctly generate withoutmatching to the previous draft.Grading and Feedback (both integrated into the grade center) GradeMark. An online paperless grading toolthat allows instructors to add inline comments tostudent submissions. Instructors can also insertfrequently used marking symbols withexplanations of what they mean, as well as audiocomments. Uses Crocodoc online paperless grading tool.Instructors can attach student papers that havebeen reviewed using the markup tool in Word.Students can leave comments for their instructor.PeerMark, a tool that facilitates peer review sothat students can evaluate each other's workanonymously.4
Turnitin DirectSafeAssignGrammar Check Yes enable e-rater grammar check Yes Word spelling and grammar checkerControl over addition of student papers to the databases YES – Instructor YES – Instructor and student. All papers are submitted to the Global Reference Databasevoluntarily, and students are free to choose not to submittheir papers to this database. Instructors can still use the service effectively, even whenstudents choose not to submit their papers to the GlobalReference Database. Processing Time could be an issue – this is unknown.Testing resulted in timely report. Indicates “Report inprogress”.No - StudentProcessing Time Website states within 5-10 minutes ofsubmission for a paper of 500-1000 words.5
Turnitin Direct SafeAssignOverwritten or resubmitted papers may notgenerate a new Similarity Report for a full 24hours. This delay is automatic and allowsresubmissions to correctly generate withoutmatching to the previous draft. Faculty have reported that it takes longer andthey have to force the submission via a refresh. Testing confirms that this can be problematic.Below is an example, it shows the report“Pending” for an a submission done weeks ago.Have to Force Refresh to display results.TutorialsTurn it in Help CenterUse Safe Assign in AssignmentsInstructor User Manual6
Yes Word spelling and grammar checker . Control over addition of student papers to the databases . All papers are submitted to the Global Reference Database voluntarily, and students are free to choose not to submit their papers to this database. Instructors can still use the service effectively, even when students choose not to .
