Category Archives: safeassign

SafeAssign is back!

SafeAssign has returned to service.  Many apologies for the inconvenience!

SafeAssign: Brief outage Friday, February 29, at 5:30PM

There will be a brief outage of the SafeAssign central service starting at 5:30pm ET on Friday, February 29. This outage is to allow the Blackboard Beyond Team to update the SafeAssign central service. The outage is expected to last only a few minutes. Users will not be able to submit to SafeAssign while the […]

SafeAssign: Brief outage Wednesday, January 30 at 5PM

There will be a brief outage of the SafeAssign central service starting at 5pm ET on Wednesday January 30. This outage is to allow the Blackboard Beyond Team to update the SafeAssign central service. The outage is expected to last only a few minutes. Users will not be able to submit to SafeAssign while the […]

SafeAssign is back

SafeAssign came back online sometime around noon.  If you continue to experience trouble accessing any SafeAssign assignments or reports via the Control Panel, please let us know.
Thank you for you patience.

SafeAssign currently down

We’ve received several emails from faculty indicating that SafeAssign is not working.  This is a problem on Blackboard’s end (not ours), and they are currently working to resolve it.
We will send out another notice when it’s been fixed.

Office 2007 and SafeAssign

If you are using SafeAssign to collect student work in your course, please read on.
SafeAssign is a new assignment submission tool in Blackboard that checks student work for plagiarism.  It only accepts the following file types: Word (.doc), PDF (.pdf), Plain Text (.txt), Rich Text (.rtf), Web page (.htm or .html) or a ZIP file […]