Important - please note
SafeAssign is used to help detect plagiarism within an assessment by checking the wording of the assignment against a database of academic resources such as books and journal articles to see if there are any matches.
Outputs from the SafeAssign text matching tool can mean different things in different contexts and and disciplines. Therefore it is important to check the output carefully.
For example, scientific and mathematical subjects are likely to have a different level of matching from English or History. Although a result of 0% would generally be an indication that the work has not been plagiarised, this is not always the case.
The SafeAssign Report
The SafeAssign report provides extensive information to help you determine whether you are appropriately citing the works used for your assessments.
A SafeAssign originality report is divided into three areas: View Report Summary; Included Sources and the submitted text.
View Report Summary
Available from the top right, gives a short summary of the probability of plagiarism.
Sources
Available from the right. Will highlight sources which include text that matches the submitted paper’s text.
You can remove the highlighting from all the identified sources by clicking on the highlight icon, or just remove highlighting from specific sources by clicking on the highlight option to the right of the source.
Submitted text
The submitted paper appears in the left hand panel. All matching blocks of text are identified. Each source has a colour specific to the source — up to 30 unique colours for 30 different sources. Text matching a source is highlighted in the source colour and identified with a number. To view further information, click on the highlighted section and a pop up will appear showing the percentage match with the source text and the source text itself.
The system will highlight matched text, even if the resource has been properly referenced in the reference list at the end of the assignment. However, it acts as a useful reminder to cross check the resources that have been quoted/used in the text to ensure that they have been acknowledged.