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...

We are starting to use Blackboard 9.1 SP8 here in our institution, and a question popped up during our end-user training. Are we able to get SafeAssign to check against students' submissions? We understand SafeAssign checks against databases and the Internet but one area of plagiarism is copying...