See how every essay was written.

Students write their assignments in Writeroom. Teachers see what was typed, what was pasted and from where, and can replay the whole draft from the first word to the last.

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The teacher home page in Writeroom. Under "Needs your attention": Ben Kowalski pasted 206 words from ChatGPT, Ben Kowalski opened chatgpt.com while writing, and Jordan Alvarez pasted 132 and 217 words from ChatGPT. Below, a list of recent documents with their status. — A teacher's home page. The first thing it answers is whether anything needs a look right now.

Writeroom in under a minute.

One essay, from the first sentence a student typed to the moment 648 words arrived from Gemini, and what the teacher sees.

58 seconds. Music, no speech; every line on screen is written out below.

Text description of the video

Music plays throughout. There is no speech. The names are invented demo students.

0:00"Spot the moment Noah stopped writing." A student types slowly into a blank page: "i think phones should be banned in schools because they make it hard to pay attention. kids are always on them and not learning." Then the page suddenly fills with a polished 680-word essay.
0:05"Noah typed two sentences. Then 648 words arrived from Gemini." The first two sentences are marked "Typed by Noah"; the rest is marked "Pasted from Gemini".
0:09The Writeroom logo. "See how every essay was written."
0:13For students. "Students write in a real editor. Every keystroke saved, to the millisecond." A keystroke log fills in beside the document as the student types.
0:18Pastes. "It knows where every paste came from. It reads each paste's formatting and names the source." A "Needs your attention" list shows pastes from Gemini, Claude and Wikipedia. Sources it names: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, Google Docs, Microsoft Word, Wikipedia.
0:22Tab switches. "And where they went when they left. Every switch, and how long they were gone." The "What to look at" list: opened gemini.google.com while writing, pasted 234 words from Gemini, pasted 414 words from Gemini. Below it, exam mode screen clips of the sites a student switched to.
0:26Replay. "Replay the whole essay. Every keystroke, every paste, from 0.5x to 1000x." The essay rebuilds itself, with pasted passages marked in red on the page and the timeline.
0:31Summary. "One glance. One sentence. The whole story before you read a line." The summary reads: Noah wrote 680 words over 2 sessions, with 2m 12s of active writing; 6% of the final text was typed here; 2 pastes brought in 648 words, all from Gemini.
0:35AI check. "Our own AI check, paragraph by paragraph. Runs on Writeroom's own servers. Evidence, never the verdict." The score rises to 90%, "Likely AI", above the note "AI detectors can be wrong, especially for English language learners. Use this with the writing-process evidence."
0:39Your class. "Your whole class, sorted by who needs a look. Red needs review. Green looks typical." The class list, then the assignments list.
0:44Your call. "You decide, in your own words. A note is required. Only teachers see it." A teacher opens "Record an integrity decision", chooses the outcome "Integrity concern confirmed by teacher" and writes the required note. The decision shows "Only teachers see this. The student is not told."
0:48Google Classroom. "Works inside Google Classroom. Attach a Doc, pick Writeroom for each student." In a Classroom assignment, the teacher chooses "Writeroom for each student" from the file menu. "Writeroom link added. Every student gets their own copy."
0:52The Writeroom logo. "Know who actually wrote it." Live view, AI marking, Locks at the due date, Exam mode, Ask Writeroom. "Works alongside Google Classroom." A button: "Bring Writeroom to your school".

01 Summary

One sentence tells the story.

Noah wrote 680 words over 2 sessions, with 2m 12s of active writing. 6% of the final text was typed here; 2 pastes brought in 648 words: 648 from Gemini.

Open any document and Writeroom tells you, in plain words, how long the student wrote, how much was typed and how much was pasted, where pasted text came from, and how long they were away from the page. Then at most three moments worth a look, each with a Watch button.

The summary of a demo essay: Needs review, AI likely, the sentence above, four numbers (680 words, 6% typed here, 2 pastes, 1m 52s away) and three moments to look at, each with a Watch button.

The replay of the same essay: pasted passages marked in red on the page, and a timeline below with flags at the moments text was pasted.

02 Replay

Watch it being written.

Replay the whole draft from the first word to the last, from half speed to a thousand times faster. Pasted text is marked on the page and on the timeline, so you can see what arrived at once and what was written by hand.

03 Your class

Your whole class, sorted by who needs a look.

One list, one status for each student: needs review, worth a look, or looks typical. Open a student to see every document they wrote and what stood out in each.

Screens from Writeroom with demo data. Students and teachers are invented.

The class list: nine demo students, those who need review first, each with one status such as Needs review or Looks typical.

04 Google Classroom

Works alongside Google Classroom.

Keep posting, collecting and grading work in Classroom. Writeroom is where the writing happens.

See it step by step

Make the assignment
Create it in Writeroom with a title, a due date and any rules, and copy its link.
Post the link in Classroom
Paste it into the Classroom assignment the way you share anything else. With the Writeroom Chrome extension, you can pick Writeroom for each student right in Classroom.
Students write, you see how
Each student opens the link and gets their own document. You open any of them in Writeroom to see how it was written.

Made to be trusted with student work.

Students are told.: Every student sees what Writeroom records before they write. Nothing about it is hidden.
Teachers decide.: A flag is a reason to look closer and talk with the student, never a verdict.
Stored in Canada.: Student work and the record of how it was written are stored in Toronto.
No ads, ever.: We never sell data, never show ads, and never use student writing to train AI models.

What a student sees before writing: the assignment, the teacher, the due date, the instructions, and a note that the teacher will see how the document was written, including typing, pastes and time away from the tab. — What a student sees before Writeroom records anything.

Bring Writeroom to your school.

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