What is Process Feedback?

For each piece of student work, Process Feedback produces a writing process report that shows the steps the student took to complete it. Many teachers use Process Feedback in their classrooms to discourage student cheating. While academic integrity is important, Process Feedback's true objective is to show how students actually do their work, so teachers and students can talk about that process together. Discussing and reflecting on the process helps students become reflective thinkers.

Process Feedback offers several ways to integrate it in a classroom. Students can keep writing where they already write or choose our online editor.

Asking students to share their writing process raises fair privacy questions. For example, a student may notice that most of their writing happened late at night, and that insight may be meant for their own reflection rather than for evaluation. Process Feedback is built with that concern in mind.

The most common question about student work has become 'Did you cheat?' It is a question that puts teachers in the role of investigator and students in the role of suspect, and nobody learns much from the exchange.

A writing process report changes the question to 'How did you do this?' Students can show their effort instead of defending it, teachers can see who is struggling while there is still time to help, and when AI was part of the work, the conversation can be about using it well rather than about whether it was used at all.

When a school, district, college, or university needs a formal deployment, an institutional agreement covers it: a signed Data Privacy Agreement, documentation for procurement review, scheduled audits, deployment support, and teacher training.