Process Focus

“We have invented technologies, from axes to helicopters, that boost our physical capabilities; and others, like spreadsheets, that automate complex tasks; but we have never built a generally applicable technology that can boost our intelligence.” - Ethan Mollick Generative AI tools like ChatGPT are everywhere. They’re changing the way students learn, write, and submit their work. But there’s also a growing wave of uncertainty. Teachers, students, and educational institutions are all wrestling with a big question: How can we ensure AI is supporting student learning, not replacing it? It’s not always easy to tell whether a student is using AI as a helpful tool or leaning on it too much. Teachers are left wondering: Am I grading my students’ original work? Is this something that my student actually wrote or is it AI generated? As a help, AI detection tools are used widely. However, most AI detection tools are also not reliable. That’s why many institutions are doubling down ...

With the shift toward paid access, Revision History now limits free users to 150 documents/month. Its pricing is modest—$32/year or $4.49/month—offering useful metrics: copy/paste events, writing time, and playback. But here’s the problem: These metrics offer limited data and limited insight . Process Feedback was designed with a different goal— to help students become reflective writers and teachers become better guides of the writing process. It doesn't just do what extensions like Revision History and Draftback do; it is grounded in peer-reviewed research and is designed for students to develop metacognition. Compared to Revision History, here’s why Process Feedback stands apart: It offers an option to do all processing on the user’s device . This matters when students or teachers are working on highly sensitive documents. It shows the percentage contribution of all the collaborating authors who are co-editing a document. Unlik...