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Direct Submit

Private and Shared Folders in Direct Submit

Overview

Direct Submit generates SafeAssign reports on papers submitted outside of a SafeAssignment. Papers uploaded through Direct Submit are only added to the Institutional Database - there is no option to add them to the Global Reference Database since students have to opt-in on a paper-by-paper basis. If files are deleted from Direct Submit, they will also be removed from the institutional database of existing materials. Additionally, there is no Gradebook integration with papers submitted through Direct Submit.

Direct Submit allows Instructors to submit papers one at a time or several at once by including them in a .ZIP file. PLEASE NOTE: .ZIP packages should contain no more than 100 papers and submitting more than 300 papers in a session is not recommended. Additionally, papers with over 5000 sentences or that are more than 10 MB in size cannot be submitted. Also, if the papers you are directly submitting include images, please note that the images must not exceed 2MB or the submission may fail.

Private and Shared Folders in Direct Submit

Direct Submit provides two options for submitting papers: Private and Shared Folders for submission of papers.

Private Folders ‐ Each instructor has a Private Folder in which papers may be submitted to SafeAssign via Direct Submit. Instructors may access the Private Folder in any course in which they are an instructor and all papers submitted to the Private Folder will be visible (you do not have to access the Private Folder from the course in which you submitted a paper in order to see the paper and resulting report).
Shared Folders - Each course has a Shared Folder in which papers may be submitted to SafeAssign via Direct Submit. All users with access to Direct Submit in a course may access the Shared Folder and all papers submitted to the Shared Folder will be visible (the papers and resulting reports in a Shared Folder may only be accessed in the course where they are submitted).

Submit Papers Using Direct Submit

Click SafeAssign under Course Tools in the Control Panel of your course.
Click Direct Submit.
Select Private or Shared.
Click Submit A Paper.
Select the Submission Options: Submit as Draft: A SafeAssign report will be generated; however, the paper will not be added to the institutional database and will not be used to check other papers. Skip Plagiarism Checking: Adds the papers to the institutional database without checking for content copied from other sources. This is useful if an Instructor wants to upload papers from an earlier course to ensure that current students are not reusing work.
Select Upload File and browse for the file. Individual papers as well as papers that are grouped in a .ZIP package are accepted. Alternatively, select Copy/Paste Document and paste the document text in the field.
Click Submit.

Supported File Types

zip
.doc
.docx
.odt
.txt
.pdf
.rtf
.html

Sources: SafeAssign Wiki, Blackboard SafeAssign Instructor Manual