What is the most important difference between SafeAssign and Turnitin?

Question

Turnitin improves student writing skills by promoting original work and providing rich feedback, whereas SafeAssign improves students' ability to access and engage with feedback on assessments.  

SafeAssign is an application in Blackboard and Turnitin is an external application built into Blackboard.  

SafeAssign compares the assignment you submit to existing literature or text to identify areas of similarity, whereas Turnitin compares students’ assignments and generates similarity reports to check for plagiarism. 

Turnitin improves students' ability to access and engage with feedback on assessments, whereas SafeAssign improves student writing skills by promoting original work and providing rich feedback. 

Answer 1

The most important difference between SafeAssign and Turnitin is that SafeAssign compares the assignment being submitted to existing literature or text to identify areas of similarity, while Turnitin compares students' assignments and generates similarity reports to check for plagiarism.