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Safe Assignment at ASU

Safe Assignment at ASU. Ruvi Wijesuriya Gemma Garcia Applied Learning Technologies Institute (alt ^ I). The “problem”…. Students are submitting poorly cited work Internet based paper mills Google/Yahoo/MSN search engines Library - electronic repositories Fellow classmates. The goal.

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Safe Assignment at ASU

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  1. Safe Assignment at ASU Ruvi Wijesuriya Gemma Garcia Applied Learning Technologies Institute (alt^I)

  2. The “problem”… • Students are submitting poorly cited work • Internet based paper mills • Google/Yahoo/MSN search engines • Library - electronic repositories • Fellow classmates

  3. The goal • Help students learn to become better writers • Help faculty identify and address instances of poorly or inaccurately cited papers

  4. The solution • Ownership and security of the submitted papers. The papers cannot be reused, shared or sold. • Depth and currency of materials used for comparisons • Ease of use • The option for a student to be able to submit a draft of their paper and have it scanned for originality

  5. SafeAssignment compares each paper against: • Billions of documents gathered from the Internet • Published works in electronic document databases • Newspapers, magazines, term paper mills, electronic books, and online reference sites • Papers submitted from our institution to prevent peer-to-peer cheating.

  6. Availability • Currently available in • Blackboard • Stand alone version (testing) • Spring 2007 • ASURITE/Webauth based web module • Mid 2007 • Integrated into the Sakai CMS

  7. Originality Reports • Originality Reports are exact copies of student-submitted papers, except that all sections suspected in plagiarism are underlined and color-coded, with each color representing one source of plagiarized text.

  8. Originality Reports (cont.) • Every unoriginal sentence is linked to the source from which it was either copied or paraphrased.

  9. Publicity • It is primarily a teaching and learning tool • Inform the Deans, Chairs, and Instructors about the tool • Inform the • Writing Centers • UNI100 and similar courses • Languages and programs that specialize in writing • And…

  10. Questions http://wiki.asu.edu/help In Blackboard, click the [HELP] button At http://asu.edu, search for “Safe Assignment” or “safeassignment”

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