Teachers and students deserve better than Revision History

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.
• Unlike Revision History, Process Feedback does not require teachers or students to create separate accounts. It works immediately after installing.
• Students can export their writing process as PDFs, share reports with peers or teachers as a single file, or upload to learning management systems like Canvas, Moodle, or Blackboard.
• Process Feedback was built by teachers and researchers for real classroom use. It’s easily accessible, free, and evolving based on feedback.

Teachers are extremely happy with the potential of Process Feedback in helping to understand the writing process. Here is what teachers say:

“Process Feedback has been so helpful as a writing teacher! Not only can my students use it to see their own writing process, but I can also use it to ensure my students are doing their own writing.” – Teacher (March 2025) ★★★★★

In a time when many EdTech tools are turning toward monetization, Process Feedback keeps the focus where it belongs: on learning, reflection, and accessibility.

Try the Process Feedback extension for Google Docs here: processfeedback.org/gdocs.