A plagiarism prevention service provides a systematic approach to detecting plagiarism, especially the "cut and paste" method. Through the electronic submission of papers, the service will generate an originality report comparing the paper with Internet resources, the ProQuest® database of journal articles and periodicals as well as work submitted by other students across the country.

Salisbury University is transitioning between Turnitin’s plagiarism prevention service and SafeAssign plagiarism prevention service available through MyClasses. As such, Teaching and Learning Resources will no longer be creating Turnitin accounts. Faculty already using Turnitin can continue to use this service until August 2009.

 

SafeAssign is a plagiarism prevention service available in MyClasses. This service helps faculty prevent plagiarism by detecting unoriginal content in student papers. In addition to acting as a plagiarism deterrent, it also has features designed to aid in educating students about plagiarism and importance of proper attribution of any borrowed content.

Faculty who are interested in using SafeAssign can attend a workshop scheduled by Instructional Design & Delivery. Use of SafeAssign requires the use of a MyClasses course, which you can request using the course request form.