What is Process Feedback?

For each document a student writes, 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 the journey that was taken. Discussing the working process encourages students to 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.

In some situations, teachers may not want to ask students to share their writing process. For example, in a graduate-level university course, a professor may not want a graduate student to share that most of their writing happened late at night. Instead, the professor may simply want the student themself to reflect on their working habits. Process Feedback is built with this 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. When AI is allowed and students use it, the conversation can be about reflecting on AI use 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, teacher training, and more.