Revision History

Revision History provides a more reliable alternative to AI detectors by allowing you to verify the authenticity of student work, and provides another valuable data point that can be used to determine whether the work presented by the student is original (other data points should be considered, as well, when making this decision and there is no silver bullet to tackle plagiarism in the digital world). This extension highlights large blocks of text that were copy-pasted during the writing process and offers a replay feature that reveals the student's actual writing behavior. When students copy from another source while typing it themselves, their writing pattern becomes suspiciously linear—like a printer outputting text or how I imagine Stephen King might write his novels—without the natural hesitations, deletions, and edits that characterize genuine composition. This makes it easy to distinguish between authentic student work and disguised plagiarism, even when students deliberately type out copied content to avoid detection.

As a high school English teacher, this product has helped tremendously in detecting AI and plagiarism. I appreciate the ability to see students' writing in real-time, examine large cuts and pastes, and then check that against the Google doc history. My suggestion to the company is: create a feature that will allow users to determine to WHICH 150 documents we want to apply it. Right now, if you're signed in, it burns through your free ones far too fast, before you realize you need to sign out, if you don't want to use it on those docs.

I love how this app works and the information it provides. But then you put up a paywall. Uninstalling and finding alternatives.