If you are looking for information on how SafeAssignment prevents plagiarism or how it compares to other originality detection services, this page is right for you. As you are choosing the best plagiarism prevention solution for your school or institution, consider the following:

Databases. SafeAssignment possesses an industry-leading collection of databases employed in originality detection checks. Each paper submitted to SafeAssignment undergoes a series of comprehensive comparisons against the following databases:

Reporting. The results of originality detection are presented in the form of SafeAssignment Reports. Our reports are easy-to-read and provide educators with a meticulous analysis of all external sources included in a manuscript. To look at a sample SafeAssignment Report click on the report icon to the right.

Turnaround. On average it only takes SafeAssignment 2-3 minutes to produce a report (comparable figures for competing solutions are 10 minutes to 24 hours).

Multilingual Support. Besides English, SafeAssignment effectively detects plagiarism and locates sources in 20 other languages. SafeAssignment can be used for documents written in Albanian, Basque, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Faroese, French, Finnish, German, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Latin, Norwegian, Portuguese, Rhaeto-Romanic, Scottish, Spanish and Swedish languages.

Masked Plagiarism. A unique originality detection engine built into SafeAssignment allows detecting plagiarism that was intentionally masked by changing words to synonyms or swapping words in a sentence. This phenomenal technology is unique to SafeAssignment and serves as an additional stimulus for students to submit authentic and properly referenced work.

Annual licensing fees for SafeAssignment are on average 35-60 percent lower than those charged by competing service providers. Additional savings for our clients come from zero annual account maintenance fees and free support helpdesk for faculty and students. To obtain an official price quote and to start a pilot of SafeAssignment, please submit a price quote request to your regional account representative. If you have a permanent or trial account with a competing service, we can help estimate how much in annual fees your institution can save per year with SafeAssignment. To calculate annual cost savings, enter the FTE of your institution:

Please note that this estimate represents annual licensing fee differential between SafeAssignment and other major plagiarism prevention services. This number is not a price quote.

Regardless of what course management system (CMS) platform your school or institution utilizes, SafeAssignment can be integrated with it to streamline usability for end users. The first anti-plagiarism Building Block for Blackboard, SafeAssignment offers the most seamless level of integration possible, whereas the link with WebCT will be introduced soon. By the means of an advanced API, SafeAssignment can also be integrated with your custom CMS or with platforms like Sakai or Moodle.

If you believe a service like SafeAssignment may be a good addition to your institution's teaching process – do not hesitate to request a free trial. SafeAssignment is available to all K-12 and higher education institutions free of charge for the first 150 days under a pilot license. Alternatively, if you are currently using a more expensive alternative solution, contact MyDropBox to request a long-term pilot and find out how we can help you cover all switching costs. Switching to SafeAssignment, just like using it for the first time, is an exceptionally easy process.

Before considering any originality detection solution, first determine how credible it is and what other institutions are currently subscribing to it. As you are reviewing a solution that ASP-hosts the intellectual property of your students, you must be confident that there is no ground for potential copyright violation claims by students. SafeAssignment is a FERPA-compliant service ensuring that all papers located on MyDropBox servers remain the sole property of their owners and/or the institution that submitted them. SafeAssignment keeps each institution's documents in a separated database and plays a role of a hosting provider to all client databases, while the databases remain sole property of the corresponding institutions. With over 350 institutional users, SafeAssignment is a leading provider of plagiarism prevention solutions and serves a population of more than 1.6 million students worldwide.

If your institution has an established relationship with one of the below publishing companies, it may be able to use SafeAssignment at no charge. Please contact MyDropBox Sales Department or place a licensing request and indicate that you are interested in learning more about the MyDropBox Sponsorship Initiative.

Currently we have sponsorship agreements with:

• Prentice Hall Publishers
• AB Longman
• McGraw-Hill
• Houghton Mifflin
• Bedford St. Martin's