Guides and Tutorials

Instructions you can paste into any assignment where the writing process matters. They tell students to write in Google Docs or Process Feedback so their process is recorded.

How to share your writing process report with your teacher, from writing the first draft to sending the report. Includes the common mistake of drafting elsewhere and pasting the text in at the end.

How to analyze the writing process in a Google Doc that contains multiple tabs. Learn to switch tabs and reload a report from the sidebar without going back to the document each time.

Activities that help you look closely at how you used generative AI in a piece of writing. You will map each instance of AI use and spot patterns in your own habits.

Sharing a Google Doc's edit link also shares its full edit history, which is one way to show your writing process. These steps show you how to get that link and send it to your teacher.

Installing our Google Docs extension works just like any other tool from the Chrome Web Store. These steps take you from the store listing to your first process report.

Prompts for exploring a writing process report, whether you are a teacher talking with a student or a student reflecting alone. They help you notice patterns in how the writing actually happened.

Tell students early that you care about their process, not just the final product. Copy one of these syllabus statements or start-of-semester announcements and adapt it to how you plan to collect process data.

The simplest way to start: tell students what to expect, then ask them to write in Google Docs or our online editor. Other apps, such as Microsoft Word, do not record edit history.

Set up a writing space that shows your course name and matches your institution's colors, so students feel more at home as they type. The link stays valid for a full term and needs no accounts.

Create a question in Process Feedback, collect submissions, and review every response in one dashboard. Neither you nor your students need an account.

Example rubrics you can paste in when you create an assignment, organized by assignment type. Use one as it is or as a starting point for writing your own.

How to analyze the writing process in a Google Doc that contains multiple tabs. Learn to switch tabs and reload a report from the sidebar without going back to the document each time.

A practical guide to the patterns worth noticing when you review a student's writing process report. Treat them as conversation starters, not conclusions.

A step-by-step walkthrough for creating an assignment in Process Feedback. You will end up with a link to share with students and a dashboard link for reviewing their submissions.

Step-by-step guide for creating a custom writing space in Process Feedback and sharing it with students

Installing our Google Docs extension works just like any other tool from the Chrome Web Store. These steps take you from the store listing to your first process report.

Prompts for exploring a writing process report, whether you are a teacher talking with a student or a student reflecting alone. They help you notice patterns in how the writing actually happened.

Process reports can be hard to interpret on your own, with charts that raise questions without clear answers. This page explains the Copy for AI feature, which helps students reflect after a writing task is finished.

Process Feedback lets you load many students' writing process files at once into a teacher dashboard. Review and compare a whole class without opening reports one by one.

Ready-to-use reflection assignments that ask students to look back at how they worked on their code. Copy them as they are or modify them to fit your course.

A complete guide to using Process Feedback in a programming course. Covers setting up assignments, reading coding process reports, and discussing them with students.

How to write, run, and reflect on your code in the Process Feedback online compiler. It runs in your browser, so there is no account and nothing to install.

How to share your coding process with your teacher after finishing a programming assignment. Work in the online compiler from the start so your revisions and run history are recorded.

Many teachers and institutions ask what makes Process Feedback different from tools like Draftback. This article explains how our extension and its research-based framework go beyond replaying a document's edit history.

A high-level summary of how the Process Feedback for Google Docs extension aligns with the Australian Privacy Principles under the Privacy Act 1988. Provided for transparency, it does not replace contractual agreements or institutional terms.

Our extensions use a local-first architecture, so your report is generated on your own device rather than on our servers. This page walks through the full data flow, using the Google Docs extension as the example.