When uploading documents using Direct Submit, are the documents user specific, or course specific? My testing is showing that they are user specific, but I just want to clarify. Also, what happens to the papers in Direct Submit once a course is removed/archived? Can the instructor still access them?...

When using SafeAssign, I submitted a document as a student to test out the Originality Reports. I copied directly from Wikipedia and other websites. In the first Originality Report produced, I only got a 3% matching index. I then cleared the attempt as an instructor and re-submitted the same document...

When an attempt is cleared for a SafeAssignment, is the document removed from the Institutional Database? Or, does that document remain in the Insitutional Database after being cleared, resulting in a near 100% matching index once resubmitted?

Mike--thanks for your reply. I know that SafeAssign does not cover an array of databases, but what it does claim to cover, it covers poorly. Even its search of the surface web is subpar. I just graded a student paper that took a string of sentences from the website of the American Economic Association...

A professor stated that they used Safe Assign and it is displaying that a student plagiarized from another student's paper (close to 122). However, when he looked up the other paper, there is no common text. He thinks Safe Assign is mixing it's links when checking for copying. He is asking for...