Grammarly, the controversial and widely used grammar, spell-check, and AI tool – has released a new Authorship tool.

A traditional AI Detection tool, such as Turnitin AI Checker, which uses an algorithm to analyse the sentence structure and words used to give a percentage of “AI-generated text”, can throw false-positive results. With AI detection, there is no way to see how or why the tool gave the score it did. With Grammarly’s new Authorship tool, it gives a percentage of AI written text, similar to Turnitin; a fully colour-coded text of the writing, showing human written, copy-pasted, and AI written; and most importantly, a replay of the student’s writing process.

Presented as a timelapse of the entire writing process, the new Replay tool allows students to prove to markers how they wrote the assessment, and as a fail-safe if they don’t save drafts of their assignments – something that often gets brought up in Academic Integrity cases.

Screenshot from https://www.grammarly.com/authorship

Grammarly’s Authorship Replay could function as a form of digital proctoring, transforming an essay into a monitored, closed assessment, a good precaution when AI is so prevalent. Access to a replay of a student writing assignment could potentially simplify the Academic Misconduct Investigation process or serve as a valuable resource to analyse what went wrong – or right – in an assessment.

Check out Grammarly’s Authorship tool here: Grammarly Authorship: Ensure Authentic Writing in the Age of AI

Or watch a demo at https://youtu.be/LqKRh_SEgJc 

Read more about it here: If integrity is what we do when no-one is watching – what are the implications of a tool like Grammarly Authorship?