Release Updates

At present, if a teacher wants to view and compare dozens of students' writing processes, they must download each student's process report and load them at once in our dashboard page. The new feature will place a button in Google Drive folders that contain Google Docs, allowing teachers to view all the process reports for those Docs in a writing process dashboard, at once, in just a few clicks.

Most institutions have already chosen an LLM (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, etc.) and have written policies around it. Sending student data to yet another AI agent would mean reinventing that work. So rather than running our own model inside writing process reports, we are updating the Process Feedback extension so that, once it is installed, both the writing process report and the teacher dashboard offer an option to run the analysis through the LLM your institution has already approved. The preview below is a mock-up.

Process Feedback's online writing space works without accounts today, and that is not changing — students can keep writing with nothing to sign up for. What is coming is an optional login: students who choose to sign in will see all of their work load automatically in one place, and pick up on a laptop exactly where they left off on a lab machine or a tablet. Students who never sign in keep working exactly as they do now.

Currently, students writing in the Process Feedback writing space can add an image only by pointing to one that already lives somewhere else — a web link or a Google Drive link. The new option lets writers upload an image file directly from their computer, so a diagram, photo, chart, or screenshot no longer has to be hosted first.

Teachers will be able to select text in a student's work and attach a comment to it. Editing the student's work is deliberately not part of this: the writing stays the student's, and the teacher's response sits alongside it.

Total active writing time tells you how long a student worked, but not what they were doing with that time. The report will split the time spent into drafting time (the stretches where new text is being produced) and revision time (the stretches where existing text is being reread, reworked, cut, or rearranged).

The paste events section of the report used to show only a table of paste activities. It now also includes a timeline view, a more intuitive way to visualize and analyze those activities over time. Clicking a paste event in the timeline scrolls to the Compare Two Moments section to view the details.

An admin-installed plugin that brings writing process reports into Moodle assignments and discussion forums. No browser extensions, no student accounts.