Process Feedback
I have had a lot of tutors ask me about AI dectection etc (I wish there was a surefire one that worked 100%!) but have warned that there are no dection tools which are perfectAs we use Google in our FE Colleges I recommended this extension - Process FeedbackIf used in conjunction with Google Docs it can help detect large copies and pastes and has various tools that can help tutors determine how much work has gone into the students assignment (this is not foolproof as they could manually type an AI answer from another tab or source) but as a tool to support tutors I found this usefulWe used to use Revision History but thats gone paid only
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You can always use the version history of any Google Doc to interrogate previous edits without the need for extensions. Brisk's Inspect Writing feature is also good (and Free)If you have Education Plus/T&L licenses in Google you can also turn on Originality reports in Google Classroom.This overview might help
I've been experimenting with the Google Add-On - AI Trust You. The idea is to provide transparency for both teachers and students. Here is more information if you are interested, although I have to say it's been glitchy this past month, so I'm not sure if you can count on it, but the concept is a good one - https://aitrustyou.lbusd.org/.
We used Process Feedback (after Draftback started charging) while teachers were still feeling uncomfortable with the pervasive student use of AI in their classes. We needed time to shift into more of a writer's workshop format for our ELA classes. We knew we also wanted to try to avoid "gotcha" scenarios with students that erode teacher/student relationships. In our most recent iteration,...
What is to stop a student from saying I worked on a draft and copied it across? We obsess about cheating; we need to obsess about learning.
Students already know how to work around detection tools, and it’s only a matter of time before tools exist that can make AI-generated work look fully “human” in the writing process too. So instead of spending our energy trying to catch students cheating the system, we should be redesigning learning so students use AI to think better, ask better questions, get feedback, reflect, and improve....