FERPA Compliancy

This policy is currently under review. 5/21/09

Instructors are not required to get consent from students to have them submit papers to SafeAssign, if they comply with the following procedures.

It is recommended that you put the following in your class syllabus under the section in which the plagiarism policy of the University, College or department appears:

Students must submit all papers written for this class to SafeAssign, a web-based plagiarism detection service, prior to submitting the papers to the instructor. Before submitting your paper to SafeAssign, please remove your title page and other personal information. (OPTIONAL: Any paper that is not submitted to SafeAssign prior to submission to the instructor will not be accepted by the instructor and will not be graded.)

Any student who fails to submit a paper to SafeAssign prior to submission to the instructor must submit an electronic copy of his or her paper to the instructor (e.g., with the Blackboard assignment tool, via email, or on disk).

Instructors will, using bulk or individual submissions, submit any such student papers to SafeAssign after removing the title page and all personally identifying information.