AI visibility

    Notes for teachers, lecturers and school leaders on reading how students actually work with AI, instead of guessing from the finished text.

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    Student AI chat logs: what their questions reveal about their thinking

    Ten signals for reading students' AI chat logs for understanding, not for catching, with example prompts and one rubric criterion to add to an assignment.

    10 min read
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    Can you act on a Turnitin AI score? What university instructors should know

    What the research and Turnitin's own documents say about AI detector accuracy, which universities switched detection off, and what instructors read instead.

    7 min read

    What is a process portfolio, and how do you assess one?

    When AI can produce any finished text, the finished text stops being evidence of learning. A process portfolio is what replaces it, and it is more useful than the essay ever was.

    4 min read

    Teachers: what to say when a student pastes from ChatGPT

    A script for the conversation after a student hands in AI-generated text. Not an accusation, not a tribunal. Five questions that lead somewhere.

    5 min read

    Teachers: how to tell if a student used ChatGPT, without a detector

    Why the text can't settle it, why detectors don't either, and three ways to see how a student actually worked.

    5 min read