Online writing space for your students

With a custom writing space link you cannot provide assignment information or custom instructions within the writing space. If you need assignment details or directions inside the writing space, create an assignment instead.

No. You do not have to create a custom writing space to use Process Feedback in your class. Students can simply go to https://write.processfeedback.org and complete their writing there.

That said, when students see your institution's color theme and your course name in the sidebar, the tool stops feeling like 'another random website' and starts feeling like part of your course environment.

Process Feedback offers a teacher dashboard where you can load hundreds of writing process reports at once. This allows you to explore and compare students' processes together.

You can also have students complete short reflection assignments to review their own writing process reports based on reflection prompts and share insights with you or their peers.

Transparency is a key idea at Process Feedback. There are no special features that are available only to teachers for observing students' behavior. Students can see what teachers can see.

Yes. A writing process report shows all copy-paste events larger than 25 characters (by default). In the report, you can see what was pasted and when it was pasted. A writing process report has a dedicated section called Paste Events. Check out our sample writing process report.

Process Feedback works regardless of whether or not students are allowed to use generative AI tools. While it doesn't automatically detect AI usage, the data it provides can help you see how and when AI might have been used. Please refer to our guide on identifying AI-assisted writing patterns.

Process Feedback is designed to work automatically with most languages, including languages like French and Spanish. If a language uses special characters as sentence terminators or word separators, you can specify them in the Settings so the writing process report is meaningful.

It can be, but you have options. You can have students do much of the reviewing themselves by assigning short reflection assignments. If you're looking for examples, check out our Reflection Prompts to guide their self-review. You can also have students submit their writing process data ZIP files so you can load them all up in the teacher dashboard and explore them at once.

Whether or not students feel anxious often depends on how you introduce Process Feedback, as well as your teaching context and grade level.

Ideally, you'll encourage students to review their own work and complete reflection assignments so they stay in control of their learning. It's also important to let them know in advance that you'll be asking them to share their writing process. For more details, please see our Teacher Guides for an example announcement you can share with your class.

Process Feedback does not directly detect plagiarism. However, it can help teachers investigate suspicious cases by providing detailed information about a student's work. Our main focus is on showing the underlying data rather than interpreting it. We're aware that there are already many tools dedicated to plagiarism detection. We believe, however, that prevention is more important than detection. Detecting plagiarism often leads to punitive measures and difficult conversations.

By contrast, Process Feedback can discourage plagiarism at the outset, especially if students are asked to reflect on their process and see how their work evolves over time. Also, you can refer to our guide on identifying AI-assisted writing patterns.

Copy-pasting text or code itself may or may not be a concern depending on the context and an instructor's requirements. Sometimes a student may copy-paste their own text from elsewhere, so students should not be penalized simply for copy-pasting.

However, students can be penalized for not following directions. If the requirement in your assignment is to use the Process Feedback editor throughout their writing or coding process and not copy-paste at all, you have the rubric in place to grade accordingly.

Process Feedback has a live chat feature. Sometimes our support team may not be available right away. You are welcome to email us anytime.

Process Feedback illuminates the otherwise hidden stages of a student's work, enabling teachers to see the steps taken. By tracking drafts, edits, and patterns of learning, it helps teachers offer more personalized, timely, and constructive guidance to their students. In doing so, it fosters a supportive classroom environment that celebrates effort, encourages reflection, and develops deeper, lifelong learning skills. Process Feedback aims to help teachers become great, in the AI era.

No. Students can use Process Feedback's extensions or its editor without creating accounts.

Yes. Many teachers start with a single low-stakes assignment.

Yes. Transparency is intentional and central to Process Feedback. Students can see all of the same process data that teachers see.

Yes. Process Feedback can be used for assignments or exams. However, it is critical to inform students in advance that you will be assessing their process, not just the final outcome. Please see our Teacher Guides for recommended practices.

No. Many teachers use the process report for reflection or discussion rather than grading. In some cases, it can support conversations about revision expectations or writing strategies, but how (or whether) it is used for assessment is always the teacher's choice.