If you assign essays and suspect that a student is using an AI tool, such as Chat GPT, you might want to look into Draftback, an extension that will show you, keystroke by keystroke, how an essay is written. Google Version history (In a Google Doc got to File>Version History>See Version History) will show you when a block of text comes in all at once, but Draftback will show you in real time whether the essay was typed or whether a block of text was copied/pasted.

I have blocked Chat GPT and other AI tools (you can unblock them in Classwize, if you’d like to have your students learn more about them) but there isn’t anything to stop them from accessing these tools on their home computer and pasting it into a Google doc. By looking at Version History and using Draftback, you can observe their process to confirm your suspicions when a document seems a little too polished and generic for a particular student.

Here is the extension you can install: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/draftback/nnajoiemfpldioamchanognpjmocgkbg

Here is a video on how to use it. It’s short and informative, and I think you’ll find it worth your time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRFmGI3bYWs