Why use the LTI integration

No. Process Feedback works entirely without an LMS. You can create a writing space or an assignment and share a single link with your class. See our teaching without an LMS page for how this works in practice.

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

Yes, and there are a few ways to do it. For a deeper integration in Canvas, Moodle, Blackboard, D2L, or Schoology, we support LTI. In Canvas, students can also install our browser extension, which works in assignment and discussion board editors. We also have pages with platform-specific guidance for Canvas, Blackboard, D2L, Moodle, and Schoology.

Regardless of which LMS you use, students can always write in Google Docs or in Process Feedback's writing space, download their writing process report as a PDF, and upload it to your LMS. A process report includes the student's final text along with charts and summaries that show their writing process. Students can also share a link to their process report.

For detailed instructions on how to integrate Process Feedback into your course, please read our Teacher Guides.

Process Feedback supports LTI 1.3 with LTI Advantage (Deep Linking, Assignment and Grade Services, and Names and Role Provisioning). It works with Canvas, Blackboard, Moodle, D2L Brightspace, Schoology, and other LMS platforms that support LTI 1.3. LTI 1.1 is not supported. All platforms follow the same flow shown in the Canvas walkthrough.

No. The institutional tool has no AI features. Student work is never sent to an AI or machine learning system, and it is never used to train a model.

No. Process Feedback shows the writing process. It does not label writing as AI-generated, and it does not grade or score students. Teachers decide how to interpret the report, within your existing academic integrity policies.

Students can edit and delete their own work until they submit it. Submitted work becomes part of the institution's course record, so requests to delete it go through the institution.

There are two. First, LTI launches do not work on mobile devices, which is a standard limitation of LTI tools, so students need a laptop or desktop computer. Second, the LTI editor is for single-author writing. For group writing, use the Google Docs extension, which supports documents with several authors.

Students write in a dedicated editor that does not offer built-in AI writing options the way Google Docs does. Teachers can open the class dashboard in one click from the LMS. And teachers see a term-long engagement report for each student, not just one assignment at a time.

No. Identity comes from your LMS through the LTI 1.3 launch, so there is no separate account or password. When students submit, the writing process report (PDF) and the final draft (Word document) are added to their LMS submission, where teachers review them in SpeedGrader or the equivalent grading view.

The editor keeps the in-progress draft and its edit history in the browser's local storage as the student types. If the teacher leaves auto-save on for the assignment (the default), the work is also saved online every few minutes, so students can continue on another device. Teachers see the work only after it is submitted.

Data is encrypted in transit (TLS 1.2+) and at rest (AES-256) and stored in the United States. It is never sold or used for advertising. It is kept for the duration of the institutional agreement and deleted within 60 days after it ends, unless the agreement sets different terms. The tool uses only standard LTI Advantage scopes and needs no LMS administrator privileges. Details are in the LTI privacy policy.

A HECVAT and supporting security documentation are available on request. The VPAT is published on this site. Process Feedback also reviews and signs institution-specific Data Privacy Agreements and similar questionnaires. Contact us to request any of these.

No signature is needed to install and test the tool in a test environment. The first term of a pilot is free, and a service agreement is provided if your institution needs one to cover student data. Pricing is annual and based on deployment scope and support level, not on the number of students; see institutional pricing.

First, send us the host URL of each LMS environment (production, test, beta) so we can approve it. The LTI registration guide covers each step for Canvas, and we are glad to join a call for the setup.