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title: "Enabling SafeAssign for Assessments"
type: "article"
space: "Blackboard Ultra"
author: "Anh Lam"
created: 2023-01-16T16:16:30Z
updated: 2023-04-17T19:04:20Z
tags: ["assessments", "blackboard-ultra", "creating-content", "enabling-safeassign", "originality-report", "safeassign", "safe-assign", "ultra"]
url: "https://employees.senecapolytechnic.ca/spaces/266/blackboard-ultra/articles/grading/16252/enabling-safeassign-for-assessments"
---

# Enabling SafeAssign for Assessments

SafeAssign is a teaching tool that can help your students produce original work. After an Assessment is processed by SafeAssign, an originality report is generated detailing how much of the content in the submitted Assessment matches existing sources.

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### Enabling SafeAssign in Assessments

1. Select the Assessment you want to enable SafeAssign. The Assessment page is displayed.
2. Select the **gear icon**. The Assessment Settings panel is displayed. ![](https://employees.senecacollege.ca/attachment?file=PtzhlNL4Q8KkqLIE9LgAIw%3D%3D)
3. Select **Enable SafeAssign.** Originality Report panel is displayed. **![](https://employees.senecacollege.ca/attachment?file=lqw8ROqUqQIOFDXqE0MU6g%3D%3D)**
4. Select **Enable SafeAssign. ![](https://employees.senecacollege.ca/attachment?file=PELV%2FNgx6npPy366sZjtSg%3D%3D)**
5. **Optional:** Select **Allow students to view the SafeAssign Originality Report for their attempts** or **Exclude submissions from the institutional and Global Reference Databases.**
![](https://employees.senecacollege.ca/attachment?file=AKeTWT7MwruGdaIL1mK1FQ%3D%3D)
6. Select **Save.**SafeAssign is enabled.
![](https://employees.senecacollege.ca/attachment?file=pZOiuYeSWjwxcepMvHvtSg%3D%3D)
![](https://employees.senecacollege.ca/attachment?file=Vwmza4GLV0FQJocxXW4nRg%3D%3D)

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### Additional Resources

- [Submit with SafeAssign from Blackboard](https://help.blackboard.com/SafeAssign/Student/Submit_SafeAssign#ultra_submit_learn)

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