Changing Firefox 3 Settings to Allow for SafeAssignment Submissions

This help sheet assumes that your instructor has created a "Safe Assignment" in Blackboard, which means that you will submit your assignment via Blackboard, and your writing will be checked against a database of pre-existing work to produce an "originality report," indicating how much of your language has been borrowed from other sources.

If you use Firefox 3 as your browser when working with Blackboard, you will need to add a special exception to Firefox to allow cookies from a particular site:

  1. Launch Firefox on your computer.

  2. For PC users, click on the Tools menu, and click on "Options...". For Mac users, click on the Firefox menu, and click on "Preferences":

    Tools - Options        Firefox 3 for the Mac - Preferences
    Windows View Macintosh View

  3. When the Options (or Preferences) dialog box appears, click on Privacy, and then click on the Exceptions button in the "Cookies" section of the dialog box:

    Privacy - Exceptions

  4. An "Execeptions - Cookies" dialog box will appear. In the "Address of web site" window, type http://safeassign.blackboard.com, and click on the Allow button:

    Allow SafeAssign URL

  5. The SafeAssign URL (safeassign.blackboard.com) will appear in the list of sites with the status of "Allow". For Windows users, click on the Close button to close out the "Exceptions - Cookies" dialog box. (Mac users will click on the red close button in the top-left corner of the dialog box):
    Close Out Exceptions Dialog Box        Close Out Exceptions Dialog Box - Mac View
    Windows View Macintosh View

  6. Windows users can click on the OK Button button to close out the Options dialog box.

  7. Blackboard will now accept SafeAssignment submissions.

Last revised October 22, 2008. Please send questions or comments to itec@bucknell.edu.