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SafeAssign is a tool used to prevent plagiarism and to create opportunities to help students identify how to properly attribute sources rather than paraphrase. SafeAssign is effective as both a deterrent and an educational tool.

SafeAssign compares submitted assignments against a set of sources to identify areas of overlap between the submitted assignment and existing works.

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SafeAssign is a plagiarism prevention tool that detects unoriginal content in students' papers by identifying areas of overlap between submitted assignments and existing works. SafeAssign can also be used to help students identify how to properly attribute sources rather than paraphrase without giving credit to the original source. The SafeAssign feature is effective as both a deterrent and an educational tool.

Note: Delays in SafeAssign occur throughout the semester based on high demand. Please DO NOT have students resubmit papers as this pushes them to the back of the queue. Blackboard currently reports as much as 24-36 hours or more may elapse before report results are returned.

How SafeAssign Works

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Interpreting SafeAssign Scores

The SafeAssign feature is based on a unique text matching algorithm capable of detecting both exact and inexact matches between a submitted paper and a particular source material. Assignments submitted to the SafeAssign database are compared with several different databases, including the following:

  • Internet: Comprehensive index of documents available for public access on the Internet
  • ProQuest ABI/Inform database: More than 1,100 publication titles and about 2.6 million articles from 1990's to present time, updated weekly (exclusive access)
  • Institutional document archives: Contains all papers submitted to SafeAssign by users in their respective institutions
  • Global Reference Database: Contains papers that were volunteered by students from Blackboard client institutions to help prevent cross-institutional plagiarism

Assignments accept every possible file type as an attachment to a submission. SafeAssign will only process and create Originality Reports for attachments with compatible file types. SafeAssign is only able to support file types that are convertible to plain text including the following file types: .docx; .doc; .pdf; .txt; .odt; .rtf; .html; .htm; and .zip (processing files that match any of these file types within the .zip). However, Learn Assignment's Inline Grading feature only supports the following subset of file types: .pptx; .ppt; .xlsx; .xls; .docx; .doc; and .pdf. SafeAssign will only process and create Originality Reports for attachments that match the above file types. For unsupported file types, the SafeAssign Originality Report will omit a matching score. This information is visible in the right-hand navigation bar of the new Originality Report.

These two lists of compatible file types mean that there are only certain file types that can be displayed in the Inline Grading workflow and processed by SafeAssign. Below is a Venn diagram outlining which file types support both features:

Diagram of compatible file types for inline grading and SafeAssign

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Enabling SafeAssign in Original Course View

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Enable the SafeAssign tool during Assignment creation and editing, under the Submission Details section.

Faculty have the option to Exclude Submissions when creating an Assignment. This option will allow faculty to create Assignments that do not include any student submissions in the Institutional or Global Reference Databases, enabling students to "check their work" against SafeAssign sources prior to submitting a final version without subsequently revised drafts being flagged as matching the previous "draft" submissions. Like other options on Assignments, this option will be point-in-time and editable after assignment creation. If the option were changed at a later date, new submissions would honor the new state of the setting.

Enabling SafeAssign in Ultra Course View

Enable SafeAssign in the settings panel while creating an Assignment or a Test.

  • Open Assignment Settings or Test Settings in a new or existing assessment.
  • Under SafeAssign , select Enable Originality Report .
  • When you enable SafeAssign for the assessment, you can also allow students to view the Originality Report. If you allow multiple attempts, an Originality Report is generated for each attempt a student submits.
  • Choose whether to exclude submissions from the institutional and Global Reference Databases.
  • Close the layer. Your changes are saved!

You can enable the SafeAssign Originality Report at any time, even after students have started their submissions, but submissions are only checked when SafeAssign is enabled. Submissions received before you enable the setting aren't checked with SafeAssign.

SafeAssign Doesn't Generate a Report when Filename Has Special Characters

Please note that assignment submissions with special characters (i.e., #,:,*,space, etc.) are not evaluated by SafeAssign and will not generate a report.

It is recommended that users only include numbers, letters, hyphens, and underscores in their filenames. In cases where student users have already made a submission, change the assignment setting to allow multiple submissions and then ask them to resubmit the document after making the appropriate filename change.

  • SafeAssign Originality Reports

After a paper has been processed, an Originality Report will be available that will show the percentage of text in the submitted paper that matches existing sources. It also shows the suspected sources of each section of the submitted paper that returns a match. The faculty can then delete matching sources from the report and process it again. This procedure is useful to ascertain if the paper is a continuation of a previously submitted work by the same student.

Because the SafeAssign feature identifies all matching blocks of text, it is important that the faculty reads the report carefully and determines whether or not the block of text in question is properly attributed.

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The sentence matching scores represent the percentage probability that two phrases have the same meaning. This number can also be interpreted as the reciprocal to the probability that these two phrases are similar by chance. For example, a score of 90 percent means that there is a 90 percent probability that these two phrases are the same and a 10 percent probability that they are similar by chance and not because the submitted paper includes content from the existing source (whether or not it is appropriately attributed).

The overall score is an indicator of what percentage of the submitted paper matches existing sources. Please note that this score is a warning indicator only and it is the faculty’s responsibility to review the papers carefully to see if the matches are properly attributed.

  • Scores below 15 percent: These papers typically include some quotes and few common phrases or blocks of text that match other documents. These papers typically do not require further analysis, as there is no evidence of the possibility of plagiarism in these papers.
  • Scores between 15 percent and 40 percent: These papers include extensive quoted or paraphrased material or they may include plagiarism. These papers should be reviewed to determine if the matching content is properly attributed.
  • Scores over 40 percent: There is a very high probability that text in this paper was copied from other sources. These papers include quoted or paraphrased text in excess and should be reviewed for plagiarism.

Frequently Asked Questions

SafeAssign can be used in two ways.

  • Faculty Members can set up SafeAssignments in their courses on Blackboard and let students submit papers to complete these assignments, in a way very similar to the Assignmnent tool provided by Blackboard Learning System. The papers will then be delivered to Faculty Members through the Blackboard Learning System together with the SafeAssign Originality Reports, which details the results of the matching process.
  • Faculty Members may upload papers directly, without student involvement through the Direct Submit feature.

What information does SafeAssign provide in its reports? A SafeAssign Originality Report highlights any blocks of text in submitted documents that match reference sources, and links back to the matching documents on the Internet or in supported content databases. SafeAssign reports also show similarity ratings for each matching sentence and allow Faculty Members to view a line-by-line comparison of potentially unoriginal text from submitted papers and the matching external documents.

If intructors enable student viewing, each student can view the reports for their own submitted papers.

SafeAssign currently checks all submitted papers against the following databases:

  • Internet - comprehensive index of billions of documents available for public access on the Internet;
  • ProQuest ABI/Inform database with over 1,100 publication titles and about 2.6 million articles from '90s to present time, updated weekly (exclusive access);
  • Institutional document archives containing all papers submitted to SafeAssign by users in their respective institutions;
  • Global Reference Database containing papers that were volunteered by students from Blackboard client institutions to help prevent cross-institutional plagiarism.

What is the Institutional Database? The Institutional Database is the archive of papers submitted by students in your institution. Each institution's Institutional Database is stored in the central SafeAssign service and kept separate from other institution's databases. Papers are automatically added to this database upon submission and are stored in the central service to be checked against other papers submitted from your institution. The Institutional Database is completely separate from the Global Reference Database which extends across institutions and students must volunteer their papers to.

Can SafeAssign process papers written in languages other than English? SafeAssign can generate originality reports for papers written in all alphabet-based languages with left-to-right writing. The user interface is currently only available in English.

Who owns the intellectual property rights for each submitted paper? Blackboard does not claim any ownership rights on the content submitted to SafeAssign.

How long does it take to generate originality reports? Reports are not generated instantaneously - it usually takes from several seconds to few minutes to receive a report. During peak use (such as the end of the semester), it can sometimes take several hours.

What file formats does SafeAssign support? SafeAssign supports Word (.doc or .docx), plain text (.txt), rich text format (.rtf), .pdf, and .html formats. In addition, supported file types can be compressed to a .zip file for Direct Submit.

What is the file size limit for files submitted to SafeAssign? There is a 10 MB limit on all files submitted to SafeAssign. This applies to individual student uploads to Assignments with SafeAssign enabled as well as .zip files of multiple papers uploaded by faculty using the Direct Submit feature (in which case the .zip file must be under 10 MB). Unfortunately, this limit is set by the SafeAssign servers, which are managed by Blackboard, so it cannot be overridden.

How does the Global Reference Database work? Blackboard's Global Reference Database is a separate database where students voluntarily donate copies of their papers to help prevent plagiarism. It is separated from each institution's internal database, where all papers are stored by each corresponding institution, and students are free to select the option to check their papers without submitting them to the Global Reference Database.

What if a student decides to remove a paper from the Global Reference Database? Students submit their papers to the database voluntarily and agree not to remove papers in the future.

Are students forced to submit papers to the Global Reference Database either by Blackboard or NIU? All papers are submitted to the Global Reference Database voluntarily, and students are free to choose not to submit their papers to this database. Faculty Members can still use the service effectively, even when students choose not to submit their papers to the Global Reference Database.

What is the SafeAssign "Synchronize this Course" option that appears in the "Direct Submit" area? The synchronize function is to deal with breaks in communication or to update a course which is based on a template or has been copied. It is a good idea for the faculty member to click on this when first using SafeAssign and to periodically update it or update if any course level issues arise. It simply synchronizes the papers in the course with the SafeAssign central database, ensuring the correct associations exist between the course and our central database.

Can students directly submit a draft assignment to check without having it deployed as a SafeAssignment via the instructor or having it be tied to the Grade Center in Blackboard? There is the option to make an assignment a draft. In this case, as mentioned above, the paper is not checked into the institutional database.

Why did SafeAssignment scores in the Grade Center get deleted after the students submitted their assignments? Make sure to enter SafeAssignment scores in the Grade Center after the students submit their assignments. Scores assigned prior to SafeAssignment submission are deleted when students submit their assignments. If paper assignments are collected together with a Blackboard SafeAssign feature, make sure to enter student grades after they have submitted their assignments electronically through SafeAssign.

It is possible to download all of the files that the students submitted to a SafeAssignment. This does not include the originality reports. Those must be viewed within Blackboard directly.

To download all of the submitted files:

  • From the course with the SafeAssignment, open Course Tools in the Control Panel
  • Click SafeAssign
  • On the next page, choose SafeAssignments
  • Move your mouse cursor over the SafeAssignment you are interested in. When the Action Link appears, click it and choose View Submissions from the menu
  • Click the Download All Submissions button at the top of the page

Your browser will download a .zip folder that has all of the submissions. You can open the folder or extract the files to read the individual submissions.

If you get this error and you are logged into Blackboard, it means that the security or privacy settings of your web browser are set to not allow 3rd-party cookies. You will need to change that setting to be able to use SafeAssign.

For Internet Explorer:

  • Click Tools
  • Click Internet Options
  • Click Privacy
  • Set the setting to Low

For Firefox:

  • Click Options
  • Select Accept cookies from site
  • Select Accept third-party cookies
  • Change Keep until to they expire

For Safari:

  • Click Safari
  • Click Preferences
  • Click Security
  • Change Accept cookies to Always

If you or your students receive this error, you will need to re-synchronize your course. To do so:

  • Underneath the  Control Panel , expand the  Course Tools menu.
  • Click  SafeAssign .
  • On the following page, click  SafeAssign Items .
  • On the  SafeAssign Items page, click the  Synchronize this course button.
  • You may briefly see a message telling you it will take a moment to synchronize. Your student(s) should now be able to access the Assignment.
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Checking for Plagiarism

How to check your work for plagiarism.

Your assignments must reflect your original thoughts and ideas, and you must properly cite information from sources. When you do not properly cite sources, that’s plagiarism.

Your assignment submissions will automatically be checked for plagiarism by SafeAssign, a feature in your online classroom. SafeAssign compares your submission to a database of student work and the internet and then generates an Originality Report that you and your instructor can review. This is to help you identify any information included in your assignment that you may not have properly cited.

Note: Remember that assignments based on worksheets or templates will often lead to high risk scores and text matching percentages even when the student has submitted original work. Please reach out to your instructor if you have any questions or concerns regarding this.

If you need help with citations, we’ve got your back! Check out the Understand Citations page in the University Library.

  • You are required to submit only your own original work with proper citations for external sources quoted in that work.
  • Your instructor will see a report for every submission.
  • Copied or purchased assignments are likely to be caught, and this can result in a Code of Conduct violation, which can lead to a failing course grade, suspension, or even expulsion from the University.

Complete the following steps to check your work for plagiarism:

  • Submit your assignment and then close out of the assignment.
  • Open your assignment again and view the Details & Information panel.
  • If the report is not ready, you will see Originality Report in progress.
  • If the report is ready, select View Originality Report to view the summary, which shows how much of your work matches the work of others.

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  • Select Additional content under the Originality Reports section for the detailed report.

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  • Review the information in the detailed report, which includes sources and highlights the sections of your assignment that match content found in other sources. Use the report to make any changes necessary to ensure you have properly cited all work that is not your own. You may resubmit your assignment as many times as the setting in the online classroom allows.

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What is safeassign.

SafeAssign ™ is a plagiarism prevention service, helping educators prevent plagiarism by detecting unoriginal content in student papers.  In addition to acting as a plagiarism deterrent, it also has features designed to aid in educating students about plagiarism and the importance of proper attribution of any borrowed content.

How Does SafeAssign Work?

SafeAssign can be used in two ways.

  • Instructors can set up  SafeAssignments  in their Blackboard courses and let students submit papers to these assignments, as an option in the regular Assignment feature  The papers will then be delivered to instructors through the Blackboard Learning System together with the originality reports, with the results of the matching process, attached to them.
  • Instructors may upload papers directly with the  Direct Submit  feature, without student involvement. The Direct Submit page is found from Course Tools > Safe Assign. Note that papers submitted by the instructor are limited to Safe Assignment checking only; you cannot enjoy the advantages of the "Needs Grading" page, the inline grading process, or Rubrics, and any scores must be posted to the Grade Center in a manual entry column.

Matching Process

SafeAssign checks all submitted papers against the following databases:

  • Internet  – comprehensive index of documents available for public access on the Internet
  • ProQuest ABI/Inform database  with over 1,100 publication titles and about 2.6 million articles from the ’90s to present time, updated weekly (exclusive access)
  • Institutional document archives  containing all papers submitted to SafeAssign by users in their respective institutions
  • Global Reference Database  containing papers that were volunteered by students from Blackboard client institutions to help prevent cross-institutional plagiarism.

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SafeAssign generates an Originality Report with the results of the Matching process. See the additional link, " Interpreting Safe Assign Reports ."

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Set Up a Safe Assignment

  • Safe Assignment is now an option within the regular Assignment feature.
  • Inside any content area, open the Assessment menu and select Assignment.
  • Name the Assignment. This will become the label for the link students follow to submit their files, and also become the header for the Grade Center column.
  • Give students their directions in the Instructions box, and/or attach a file of directions. You can also provide directions as a separate Item.
  • Set the Due Date, if desired, and then type the number of Points Possible. Associate a Rubric if desired.
  • Click the words "Submission Details," revealing several options. Check the boxes to "Check submissions for plagiarism using Safe Assign" and "Allow students to view Safe Assign originality report." Leave the box to "Exclude submissions" unchecked.
  • Set other options as desired, and click Submit.
  • The new link will be displayed at the bottom of the page, and students will click those words to submit their files.
  • You can monitor students' submissions in several ways: the Grade Center column will show an exclamation point for each submission; the Needs Grading page will grow as the files are received, and the page at Course Tools > Safe Assign > Safe Assign Items > View Submissions will show you the comparative results for all of the files.
  • Use your pretend student account to observe the entire process for a file submission.

Note: if you copy Safe Assignments from an old course site (before Fall 15), the legacy "View/Complete" links will continue to work as expected. But you should consider recreating these links with the new format, to enjoy the advantages of inline grading and easy association of Rubrics.

Set Up a Draft Assignment

  • To allow students to submit a "draft," and then later submit a final version, so that the results of Safe-Assign-checking of the draft are removed before the final version is checked, use the option within the Assignment setup page for "Number of Attempts" to allow multiple attempts. Each time the student submits a fresh version, the previous Safe Assign results are deleted.

View a Student’s Report, and Grade the Assignment

  • The Safe Assignment Originality Report is now most easily viewed from the grading page.
  • Reach the grading page either from the Grade Details page (opened through the Grade Center) or -- even more conveniently -- from the Needs Grading page (linked under Grade Center on your course menu).
  • When you click the student's attempt, the grading page will display the student's file -- if it is in Microsoft Word format -- or provide a link to download the file for viewing on your own computer. At the right side of the grading page, near the box for typing the student's score, you will see a link labeled "Safe Assign," which reveals another link to "View Originality Report." The report opens in a separate browser window with all of the details about matching texts.
  • On the grading page, if the submitted file was in Microsoft Word format, you have tools to add comments and other markups to the student's file. This is called "inline grading." When you use these tools, you are actually adding a "layer" to the student's file. EXTREMELY IMPORTANT WARNING: If you use the tools to add comments and markups, you MUST also click the "double arrow" next to the word CROCODOC at the top of the paper's display. This opens a list of the comments and markups you've made, and it is CRUCIALLY IMPORTANT that this list is opened before you proceed to "Submit" the page. Clicking to Submit without opening the list of comments and markups will result in LOSING ALL OF YOUR WORK.
  • On the grading page, if you associated a Rubric with the Assignment, the link to the Rubric will appear as soon as you have clicked the score box for the Attempt. The Rubric will be displayed in the right column, for convenient comparison with the student's work. If you prefer, there is a link above the Rubric to open it in a separate browser page. On the grading page, there are links at the top of the Rubric to allow you to use the Feedback boxes for the individual criteria. There is also a final box for general feedback (on the Rubric). If your Rubric is designed to calculate points, the total will be placed into the Attempt Score box when you close the Rubric.
  • When you have finished reviewing the student's work, click Submit to record the grade. But if you have used the inline grading tools, recall the EXTREMELY IMPORTANT WARNING above -- make sure that the COMMENTS AND MARKUPS list is visible before you click Submit.
  • For files that are not in Microsoft Word format, you can find several links to download the students' files for viewing on your own system. The links to the Safe Assign Originality Report and/or the Rubric are available as described above.

For more help check out the Blackboard Help Center page covering SafeAssign .

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How to Use Safe Assign Before Submitting and it 5 Alternatives

  • by Judy Jeni
  • January 16, 2024

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One’s work can be credible when submitting a plagiarism-free assignment. Most students ask whether they can use SafeAssign before submitting their assignments to school. Here, we explore the options.

The best practice is to scan the document through anti-plagiarism software so that your work may remain authentic. One such software to use when polishing your work is the SafeAssign.

Can I Use SafeAssign Before Submitting?

You can use SafeAssign to scan before submitting if you upload a draft and wait for the similarity report before submitting it as your final file to your faculty to see. It is a reliable anti-plagiarism software that many students use before submitting their final project.

We recommend that one should use this software to check and eliminate cases of plagiarism in work. The cool thing is this software will give you a report of any matches should they exist in the report.

The SafeAssign scan takes around 20 minutes , which makes it good for use in scanning your draft before submitting it before the deadline.

How to Use SafeAssign Before Submitting

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The process of using SafeAssign is easy to understand. The software has a user-friendly environment to allow one to scan the documents without undergoing many steps.

First, you must load your document into SafeAssign and allow the process of scanning to begin.

SafeAssign will match your documents against several databases on the web and other sources.

In addition, you will have to wait for the results for at least twenty to thirty minutes before it displays the report. After that, the software will indicate the percentage of originality for your interpretation.

You have the chance to interpret the results accordingly to know if it has an acceptable SafeAssign score or not. In that guide, we determined that if the originality is below 15%, then it Ok and good.

When it ranges between 15% and 40%, it means that you should revise the documents. It can only be critical if the originality percent is beyond forty percent.

Alternatives to SafeAssign

This section will uncover some other anti-plagiarism software that you can use to polish your work and make it original.

However, some other scanner SafeAssign alternatives are charged or paid to use. It should be noted that you can use SafeAssign for free if you are a student, which makes it better compared to these options.

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1. ProWriting Aid

ProWriting aid is a great tool that stretches more than grammar. When you want to determine the originality of your document, then look no further.

Once it scans the documents, it will display the percentage of similarities, enabling you to customize it to the original content.

Beyond that, it will also analyze the syntax, spelling, and punctuation errors. It will display the suggestions to ensure that you polish your work to uphold the integrity of proper grammar.

Furthermore, ProWriting aid has features to eliminate vague expressions such as passive voice, repetitiveness, and other inconsistencies. Moreover, it will scan and display grammar errors instantly.

2. Grammarly Premium

Grammarly is a popular tool that many academic writers use to improve the quality of their work. Once you download your documents there, it will scan them against more than 20 billion web pages.

Grammarly has an efficient algorithm to detect similarities against thousands of pages on the web. After scanning your work, it will display the result to allow the user to eliminate any similarities.

This software has an extensive dictionary base which becomes helpful in detecting spelling mistakes. Also, this software will suggest a new style if there is a need for improvement. Lastly, it will detect typos and flag them out for further polishing.

3. Plagiarism Checker X

Plagiarism Checker X has a user-friendly interface to offer an exciting experience to the user. The good news is that this software supports various file formats such as word documents and pdfs. 

More importantly, this software will scan your documents and display the percentage of similarities. You will use that hint to paraphrase the highlighted phrases to kick out the plagiarism issues.

Another exciting feature is that that it has a keyword analyzer tool. This feature is crucial for those people who want their article to rank well on the web.

4. Turnitin

Turnitin does not require any introduction when it comes to issues of plagiarism. This tool is so powerful by comparing the given text against both active and archived web pages. You will see an in-depth analysis of the scan to indicate if your documents have similarities.

If you want an effective plagiarism detection solution, then Turnitin awaits you. You will use the given report to fix any pending issues that arise. It is a creative resource for enhancing your academic skills.

If you fail to cite your sources well, it will flag them off as plagiarized content. For that matter, you should know how to cite appropriately and overcome such traps.

5. Scribbr Plagiarism Scanner

Finally, another anti-plagiarism software that many students use to fix any pending issues on their work is scribbr. When you load your work on this platform, it will scan against more than 90 billion active and archived web pages.

Beyond that, a user can add a new source to scan the paper against a vast database. You can also change the settings to exclude specific databases and reports.  After the process is over, this tool will display the percentage of similarity.

Another important aspect is that it scans more than 20 languages. To see plagiarized content, it will highlight it in different colors and indicate the source.

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SafeAssign Plagiarism Prevention Service

SafeAssign is a plagiarism detection tool that can help improve your writing and citation skills by providing feedback about the originality of your work.

Using the SafeAssign tool in written assignments will help maintain the academic integrity associated with your Thomas Edison State University degree program. SafeAssign is a free service that is fully integrated into students’ online courses which streamlines the assignment submission process. The University has already began incorporating the new service into many courses requiring a written assignment.

Learn how to submit your assignments using SafeAssign

Once your written assignment is submitted, SafeAssign will check the content against an extensive database of online resources, journal articles, research papers and other students’ work and generate an originality report that is easy to understand and follow.

Learn how to access and generate your originality report. If you have questions about using SafeAssign, please contact Steve Weinblatt, assistant director of Academic Integrity, Office of the Vice President and Provost: [email protected] .

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“Those homeowners who have already completed the initial inspection will be able to move to the grant application stage as soon as the funding is available on July 1,” he said.

However, many of those 59,547 homeowners will have to wait at least 60 days after July 1 to find out whether their grant applications are approved, he said.

That’s because lawmakers are poised to approve additional funding with a major program change: Applications will only be considered from low- and moderate-income homeowners for the first 60 days after resumes accepting grant applications. If proposed language is approved by the Legislature, homeowners who don’t fall into one of those categories would have to hope some of the new funding remains available after 60 days.

Program officials will be able to tell applicants whether they qualify under “low” and “moderate” income classifications used by the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development for assistance programs, Galetta said.

Previous applicants who are waiting in limbo say they were confused to learn that the program rules could change before they would be allowed to get in line for a grant.

Steven Rosenthal, a Parkland resident, said that after his inspection was completed last year, he received notification that his grant application was “paused.”

“While the ‘new’ applications after July 1 will be governed by the ‘low- to moderate-income’ criteria, it is not clear as to the status of the ‘old’ applications like mine,” Rosenthal wrote in an email this week.

Matthew Hirko, a Tallahassee resident, said by email that his grant application has been in the review stage since September.

“I can’t tell what’s happening,” Hirko said. “In the meantime, I really need a new roof on my house. Are they still trying to allocate money? Are they actively reviewing applications, or are we all still in limbo?”

Making matters more confusing, funding for the program’s upcoming year remains undetermined.

So far, $391.2 million has been approved for program grants.

Adding to the previously approved $215 million in grant funding, lawmakers last November approved $176.2 million more. But that money was only enough to cover 17,620 grant applications that remained in the queue, and not enough to approve grants for new applicants.

Gov. Ron DeSantis, in his budget recommendation released last December, requested $100 million for program grants during the upcoming 2024-25 budget year. DeSantis proposed the money to automatically recur each year.

That would be enough to fund 10,000 new grants next year, and for as long as the $100 million recurs.

Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis requested $200 million — enough to fund 20,000 grants next year — in the state’s 2024-25 General Appropriations Act bill.

The actual amount available for the program won’t be known until the Legislative session ends and DeSantis signs the final bill.

Between the unknown number of low- and moderate-income homeowners who will sign up during the first 60 days, the 59,547 program applicants who haven’t yet had grant applications considered, and a rule in the current bill barring the program from creating a waiting list after funds are depleted, there would seem to be little opportunity for new applicants who take in more than a “moderate income” to secure grants next year — unless another special legislative session results in another large outlay.

Questions and answers about the My Safe Florida Home program

Q: How many applicants have so far been approved for grants of up to $10,000? 

Q: How many applicants submitted grant requests but have not yet been notified that they’ve been approved?

Q: How many homeowners had their homes inspected but were unable to apply for a grant before the program stopped accepting them in September?

Q: When will they be able to apply for grants?

A: When the program resumes accepting grant applications on July 1.

Q: How long will it take after that to find out if their grant application is approved?

A: Unless they fit into a “low” or “moderate” income category, they must wait at least 60 days after July 1 to hear back.

Q: Really? Why?

A: Legislative bills to reauthorize the program for the coming year require that low- and moderate-income applicants must be prioritized across four stages: For the first 15 days, low-income homeowners who are at least 60 years old. For the next 15 days, all low-income homeowners. For the next 15 days, moderate-income homeowners who are at least 60 years old. For the next 15 days, all moderate-income homeowners. Finally, after 60 days, applications of all other homeowners will be considered.

Q: What storm-hardening upgrades will qualify for the grant?

A: Here’s the list:

  • Opening protection (impact-resistant windows and skylights).
  • Upgrading exterior doors, including garage doors.
  • Bracing gable ends.
  • Reinforcing roof-to-wall connections.
  • Improving the strength of roof-deck attachments.
  • Upgrading roof coverings from code to code plus.
  • Installing secondary water barrier for roofs.

The final five improvements on the above list deal with roofs, their coverings, and their connections to the home. Department officials are approving funding for new roofs to address any of the roof-related deficiencies.

Q. Can I still apply to get a free windstorm mitigation inspection even if I can’t submit an application?

Q: How can I find out whether my status is “low- or moderate-income”?

A: The program will let you know, either on its website — mysafeflhome.com — or by calling 866-513-6734 after the program reopens on July 1. Generally, low-income means earning up to 80% of the median income of the state, metropolitan statistical area or county (whichever is higher). Moderate-income means earning up to 120% of the median family income.

Q: If I am approved as low-income, will I have to pay a match to get the grant?

A: No, low-income applicants won’t have to pay anything to be eligible for up to $10,000 in improvements.

Q: What are the other requirements to be eligible for an inspection or grant?

A: Your home has to be homesteaded (not a second home or investment property), permitted for construction before Jan. 1, 2008, and have an insured value of $700,000 or less. Only site-built, single-family homes and townhomes qualify for grants to strengthen windows and doors. Grants for new roofs are available only for single-family homes.

Q: I don’t believe I will fall into a low-income or moderate-income category and I haven’t yet applied for an inspection. What are my chances of getting a grant this year?

A: With the maximum possible budget of $200 million able to fund grants for just 20,000 applicants this year, chances that new applicants will get grants are not great.

However, there’s always a chance that a sizable number of homeowners approved for grants last year won’t complete their home-hardening projects. If that happens, the $10,000 allocated for their grant would revert back to the program and be available for future applicants.

Q: This sounds complicated and I can’t wait that long. I should have applied earlier, right?

Q: Why is the state making so much money available for stormproofing homes?

A: The idea to restart the 2006-2009 program came about after a sharp rise in property insurance premiums for most Florida residents, and while the Legislature passed laws in 2022 to shore up the insurance industry. Resuming the program was justified as a way to reduce insurance premiums by increasing the number of wind mitigation discounts that homeowners could claim.

Ron Hurtibise covers business and consumer issues for the South Florida Sun Sentinel. He can be reached by phone at 954-356-4071, on Twitter @ronhurtibise or by email at [email protected].

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Comprehensive Safety Action Plans

On this page, 8 components of an action plan, eligible action plans, non-eligible action plans, action plan components explained (nofo table 1).

In the Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) grant program, comprehensive safety action plans (referred to as “ Action Plans ”) are the basic building block to significantly improve roadway safety.

Action Plans are comprehensive safety plans aimed at reducing and eliminating serious-injury and fatal crashes affecting all roadway users.

Action Plans use data analysis to characterize roadway safety problems and strengthen a community’s approach through projects and strategies that address the most significant safety risks.

The SS4A grant program is guided by the Safe System Approach , which involves a paradigm shift to improve safety culture, increase collaboration across all safety stakeholders, and refocus transportation system design and operation on anticipating human mistakes and lessening impact forces to reduce crash severity and save lives.

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The goal of an Action Plan is to develop a holistic, well-defined strategy to prevent roadway fatalities and serious injuries in a locality, Tribal area, or region.

A successful Action Plan includes the following eight key components, which are described in more detail at the end of this web page  and in the Action Plan Components PDF  (pictured at right):

  • Leadership commitment and goal setting 
  • Planning structure 
  • Safety analysis 
  • Engagement and collaboration 
  • Equity 
  • Policy and process changes 
  • Strategy and project selections 
  • Progress and transparency

For an Action Plan to be used for an Implementation Grant or for supplemental planning and demonstration activities only, it must have been finalized or updated between 2019 and April 30, 2024. (This is item #9 on the Self-Certification Eligibility Worksheet .)

To satisfy the SS4A NOFO requirements to apply for an Implementation Grant or a Planning and Demonstration Grant that includes only supplemental planning and/or demonstration activities, applicants must have an existing Action Plan that meets the following conditions:

  • Is focused on preventing roadway fatalities and serious injuries in a locality, Tribal area, or region, and includes projects and strategies to address the safety problems it identifies.
  • For Implementation Grants, the existing plan must have been finalized and/or last updated between 2019 and April 30, 2024. It must be complete and adopted by the time of application submission.
  • For Planning and Demonstration Grants, it can still be in progress at the time of application.
  • Vision Zero Action Plans
  • Local Road Safety Plans
  • Tribal Transportation Safety Plans

If another jurisdiction (e.g., an MPO, a county) has an existing plan in place that meets the plan eligibility requirements, an eligible applicant covered within the Action Plan’s geographic boundaries could apply without its own plan as long as the other eligibility requirements are met.

Note: Implementation Grant applicants who meet any of the following conditions must update their Action Plan to align with the Action Plan components in NOFO Table 1 as a condition of receiving SS4A funds:

  • Self-Certification Eligibility Worksheet  areas that include a "no" response;
  • Safety focus does not include all road users, and at a minimum includes pedestrians, bicyclists, and motor vehicle safety; or
  • Action Plans whose latest update was more than 3 years ago.

Applicants may include planning and demonstration activities (Activity A) as part of their Implementation Grant application to update their Action Plan accordingly.

Pre-Application Action Plan Review

New in FY24, potential Implementation Grant applicants may submit a completed Self-Certification Eligibility Worksheet and any referenced Action Plan(s) for pre-application review—due by April 17, 2024—so that USDOT may affirm their eligibility to apply for an Implementation Grant.

Learn more on the SS4A Pre-Application Action Plan Review page.

Existing Safety Plans That Meet SS4A Requirements

The SS4A program has received numerous questions about whether existing plans meet Action Plan criteria. The categories below address some of these specific questions.

The Crosswalk: SS4A Action Plan Components and Safety Plan Templates provides some recommendations for determining whether a Local Road Safety Plan or Tribal Transportation Strategic Safety Plan meets SS4A requirements.

Multiple or Single Plans

An eligible Action Plan could be a single plan, or an applicant could point to multiple plans already in place that fulfill the elements of the Action Plan for this funding round.

State-level action plans, including but not limited to Strategic Highway Safety Plans, State Highway Safety Plans, and Public Transportation Agency Safety Plans, cannot be used as an established plan. 

The SS4A program encourages applicants to apply for supplemental planning funds to consolidate existing plans into a single, comprehensive safety action plan covering the entire jurisdiction.

Pedestrian and/or Bicycle Safety Action Plans

For this round of funding, a bicycle and/or pedestrian safety action plan is eligible if it meets the eligibility requirements for an existing Action Plan outlined in the  Self-Certification Eligibility Worksheet , even if it does not focus on all roadway users.

We recommend documenting in your application’s narrative the conditions that led the community to decide to develop the mode-specific safety action plan.

Note that as a condition of the grant, recipients  would be required to update the existing plans to include analysis of all roadway users .

Transportation Master Plans or Mobility Master Plans

Transportation Master Plans typically include strategic, multimodal transportation visions for a community and do not share the same safety focus that characterizes a comprehensive safety action plan .

However, components required for an established plan to be substantially similar to an Action Plan may be found in multiple plans, including a transportation master plan (e.g., leadership commitment, equity analysis).

Safety Plan in Process

A qualifying comprehensive safety action plan must be completed and adopted between 2019 and April 30, 2024, to be used to apply for an FY24 SS4A Implementation Grant.

If only applying for supplemental planning and/or demonstration activities that will inform the update of an existing plan, an applicant must have a qualifying comprehensive action plan completed and adopted between 2019 and April 30, 2024, or be in the process of developing a comprehensive safety action plan. 

If applying to develop a new Action Plan, applicants do not need to have a comprehensive safety action plan in place.

If your plan is in progress but not yet completed, you may apply for funds to complete or update the plan in addition to supplemental planning and/or demonstration activities. 

The following Action Plans  do not satisfy the SS4A NOFO requirements  to apply for an Implementation Grant or a Planning and Demonstration Grant that includes only supplemental planning and/or demonstration projects:

  • Plans that are not primarily focused on road safety.
  • Plans that do not meet the requirements in the  Self-Certification Eligibility Worksheet .
  • Plans that do not identify road safety problems and identify a list of projects and strategies to address those problems.
  • State-level plans (e.g., a  Strategic Highway Safety Plan  required in 23 U.S.C. § 148,  State Highway Safety Plans  required in 23 U.S.C. § 402, or  Commercial Vehicle Safety Plans  required in 49 U.S.C. § 31102).
  • Note: A transit agency may apply for a Planning and Demonstration Grant or partner with communities within its service area to implement projects that improve safety and access to transit.
  • Plans that are only for a corridor or are site specific.
  • Plans that are not complete at the time of application.
  • Plans that were completed or last updated prior to 2019.

A successful Action Plan includes eight key components, which are described in detail below and in Table 1 of the SS4A Notice of Funding Opportunity.

1. Leadership Commitment and Goal Setting

Leadership commitment and goal setting is an official public commitment (e.g., resolution, policy, ordinance) by a high-ranking official and/or governing body (e.g., mayor, city council, Tribal council, metropolitan planning organization, policy board) to an eventual goal of zero roadway fatalities and serious injuries.

The commitment must include a goal and timeline for eliminating roadway fatalities and serious injuries achieved through one, or both, of the following:

  • The target date for achieving zero roadway fatalities and serious injuries, or
  • An ambitious percentage reduction of roadway fatalities and serious injuries by a specific date with an eventual goal of eliminating roadway fatalities and serious injuries.

2. Planning Structure

A planning structure is a committee, task force, implementation group, or similar body charged with oversight of the Action Plan development, implementation, and monitoring.

3. Safety Analysis

Safety analysis is analysis of existing conditions and historical trends that provides a baseline level of crashes involving fatalities and serious injuries across a jurisdiction, locality, Tribe, or region.

It includes an analysis of locations where there are crashes and the severity of the crashes, as well as contributing factors and crash types by relevant road users (e.g., motorists, pedestrians, transit users).

Analysis of systemic and specific safety needs is also performed, as needed (e.g., high-risk road features, specific safety needs of relevant road users, public health approaches, analysis of the built environment, demographics, and structural issues).

To the extent practical, the analysis should include all roadways within the jurisdiction, without regard for ownership. Based on the analysis performed, a geospatial identification of higher-risk locations is developed (a high-injury network or equivalent).

4. Engagement and Collaboration

Engagement and collaboration involve robust engagement with the public and relevant stakeholders, including the private sector and community groups, that allows for both community representation and feedback. Information received from engagement and collaboration is analyzed and incorporated into the Action Plan.

Overlapping jurisdictions are included in the process. Plans and processes are coordinated and aligned with other governmental plans and planning processes to the extent practicable.

5. Equity Considerations

Equity considerations include plan development using inclusive and representative processes.

Underserved communities are identified through data and other analyses in collaboration with appropriate partners. Analysis includes both population characteristics and initial equity impact assessments of the proposed projects and strategies.

6. Policy and Process Changes

Policy and process changes include assessment of current policies, plans, guidelines, and/or standards (e.g., manuals) to identify opportunities to improve how processes prioritize transportation safety. The Action Plan discusses implementation through the adoption of revised or new policies, guidelines, and/or standards, as appropriate.

7. Strategy and Project Selections

Strategy and project selections include identification of a comprehensive set of projects and strategies—shaped by data, the best available evidence and noteworthy practices, and stakeholder input and equity considerations—that will address the safety problems described in the Action Plan. These strategies and countermeasures focus on a Safe System Approach and effective interventions and consider multidisciplinary activities.

To the extent practicable, data limitations are identified and mitigated.

Once identified, the projects and strategies are prioritized in a list that provides time ranges for when the strategies and countermeasures will be deployed (e.g., short-, mid-, and long-term timeframes). The list should include specific projects and strategies, or descriptions of programs of projects and strategies, and explains prioritization criteria used. The list should contain interventions focused on infrastructure, behavioral, and/or operational safety.

8. Progress and Transparency

Progress and transparency is a method to measure progress over time after an Action Plan is developed or updated, including outcome data. It’s a means to ensure ongoing transparency is established with residents and other relevant stakeholders.

The approach must include, at a minimum, annual public and accessible reporting on progress toward reducing roadway fatalities and serious injuries and public posting of the Action Plan online.

Head of Boeing’s 737 program will leave the company

The departure of ed clark is part of a shake-up in boeing leadership after a jet blew a hole mid-flight.

The executive who led Boeing’s 737 Max program is leaving the company, the first significant staff shake-up since a Boeing-made jet suffered a hole blown in the side of its fuselage midflight last month.

In a memo sent to employees Wednesday, Stan Deal, chief executive of Boeing’s commercial airplane division, announced that Ed Clark will depart the company immediately. Clark was an 18-year veteran of the company who in 2021 became vice president of the 737 program and general manager of Boeing’s factory in Renton, Wash. Katie Ringgold, vice president of 737 delivery operations, will take his place.

The memo, which Boeing circulated to the media, also announced other leadership changes. Elizabeth Lund, a senior vice president and general manager of airplane programs for the company’s commercial aircraft program, was appointed to the newly created position of senior vice president overseeing quality control and quality assurance efforts.

Deal wrote that the changes are focused on the company’s “enhanced focus on ensuring that every airplane we deliver meets or exceeds all quality and safety requirements. Our customers demand, and deserve, nothing less.”

Clark could not be reached for comment Wednesday.

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Whitaker was set to meet with Boeing executives as early as this week for follow-up discussions. The administrator is awaiting a report from a panel convened last year to review Boeing’s safety culture. That review was launched as part of a package of measures passed by Congress in the wake of the 2018 crash of a Lion Air jet in Indonesia and the 2019 crash of an Ethiopian Airlines jet in Ethiopia. The crashes, which were blamed on a flawed software system, involved another version of Boeing’s popular 737 aircraft, the Max 8.

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