Teacher walkthrough · 5:17
Watch a whole essay, start to finish.
A teacher makes an assignment, a student writes it, and the essay comes back flagged. You’ll see the replay, the paste report, and the check-in write that settles it.
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0:00 Create your account
we're gonna create a new teacher account. Click on Try It Free, and then click I'm a Teacher. You can sign in with Google or you can add a new login check your email for a code, and you can just copy it or click the link in your email And there you go. Now you're inside the dashboard as a teacher.
0:17 Make an assignment
First thing you're gonna do is create an assignment. We'll call this Scarlet Letter. And you can add a description. You can also add the class and a due date for your assignment.
0:30 Set your rules
Then you're gonna take a look at your rules. Is pasting allowed? Well, maybe they'll paste citations or quotes or the essay instructions. And are they allowed to use speech to text? And then finally, for something more complicated with structure, most people don't write it in one sitting or one go ahead from top to bottom. So you can decide what gets flagged.
0:49 Students join with a code
All right, we have our assignment made, and you just go ahead and click here to copy the join link. If you go to essayguard.io/join, they can put in the assignment code. Or they can paste in the link that I just copied which is essayguard/join/the assignment.
1:07 The student writes
Now we're going to give a title to this essay. "Scarlet Letter for the New Age."All right. This is what it looks like. for them. They're not going to be writing it in Google Docs or Microsoft Word. They're going to be writing it in here. This is really important because we can measure all kinds of metrics inside of this word processor. Now, if your school requires either Docs or Word, we're going to allow them to download it as a document file. What is important is that you actually see them crafting the essay. Okay, so in this case, we'll just say "Scarlet Letter for the New Age." Upon reading Scarlet Letter, there are many things that I learned in the process."For example, if you do bad deeds, karma is coming for you. While they're writing, we are measuring a bunch of metrics. So if they're using some kind of automation it's very difficult to copy the fingerprint of each individual person. Let's say that the student decides to paste something in. Could be AI, could be plagiarism. Let's also say that they elaborate on it. After reading the book, I feel more inclined to do the right thing because public humiliation is awful. And then let's say that somebody had something on their phone, that was written by a different source and they were dictating it. Let's go ahead and save it, and then we'll submit it.
2:34 A flagged essay
Now when the teacher goes into their dashboard, they'll see that there's a new essay. Oh, and it was flagged. Let's take a look. All right. The summary is most of this essay was pasted in. The student pasted in writing in two pastes, about 160 words in all, none of it typed in Essay Guard.
2:49 Watch the replay
So the results that we give you are the evidence for what happened, but you're also gonna get to see the playback the playback shows exactly what was written and when. Oh, there's the paste. Anything that's pasted in or dictated is gonna be highlighted for you to review as evidence, and you can actually see how the student writes to give you greater insight into their process. We're also gonna show you on the right-hand side, 77% of this essay is writing that was pasted in, not typed. So we see down here this student produced two hundred and twenty-four words with 0% revisions in three minutes. When they're in a class with multiple people, we're gonna compare this, so you can see if the average person spent three and a half hours on their essay and this person spent six minutes, that is probably not something that they wrote. This gives you a lot of tools to be able to see exactly what the student's doing and not just accuse them, but actually point out and show them exactly what happened. You can use this evidence to prove if they pasted something or if they're dictating from somewhere else. In testing, we found that this was fantastic for confronting students and showing them exactly what they did, and causing them to realize that they need to, correct the error of their ways … so that they know that they can't get away with this stuff. Now you're gonna be able to review the essay with the student if you want to show them exactly what they did. And so you're not accusing them out of nothing. You have absolute proof of how the essay was written, when things were put in, and what they did compared to everybody else. This changes the game for what you're able to prove.
4:16 Ask for a check-in write
Additionally, if you suspect the student of cheating or plagiarizing or using AI, you can ask them for a check-in. And when you click this, it opens up another document for them to log in and write an essay that is monitored. And then we'll compare all the metrics and tell you exactly how they scored compared to what they turned in previously.
4:37 Review and leave notes
Additionally, the teacher can review the essay. You can highlight passages and make notes, word choice, for example, and you can leave colors on it. And then you can send this version to the student to go ahead and do edits to. You can download the original, or you can download the annotated one.
4:56 The whole class at a glance
For the teacher, they're gonna see a printout of all the different students that have worked on the essays, and you're gonna see just a few are gonna be flagged or need, further review. The rest of them are going to be approved. And it'll give you a great idea about what's going on with the students' actual writing, where you can give them more pointed advice and better insight into their papers. And that is Essay Guard.