Process Feedback - Writing Process Reports for Google Docs
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Free writing process reports for Google Docs · Students prove their own work · Teachers see edits, AI use, and copy-paste events
🏆 Used by 100,000+ teachers and students · 400+ verified reviews · Free for teachers and students
Process Feedback turns the edit history of any Google Docs document into a detailed Writing Process Report. It shows the data users need to explore possible AI use, along with typing time, copy-paste events, revision patterns, and more.
It is a free, research backed alternative to tools like Draftback, Revision History, and Grammarly Authorship, with rich process insights, privacy focused sharing, and support for teachers and students.
For students: understand your own writing process and share it to show your learning journey.
For teachers: see how students wrote, not just what they submitted.
📌 What is the Process Feedback extension?
The extension reads the edit history Google already maintains for every document and turns the full writing journey into an interactive writing process report. It does not run in the background and collects no data unless the user chooses to share.
✨ Key Features
➛ Identify AI use timing and locations in your document's edit history
➛ Copy and paste events, including what was pasted and when
➛ Total typing time and typing fluency
➛ Revision vs. drafting time
➛ Break frequency and timing
➛ Author contributions in collaborative documents
➛ Teacher dashboard for managing and comparing multiple student reports
➛ Google Classroom integration
➛ Shareable report link and PDF download
➛ Multiple tabs support
👤 Who is it for?
Students use it to reflect on their writing process and to prove their own work when academic integrity is questioned.
Teachers use it to understand how students approach writing, identify who needs support before deadlines, and start honest conversations about AI use without relying on unreliable AI detectors.
✨ How is it different?
Unlike AI detectors that guess whether text was AI generated, Process Feedback shows writing history that helps users explore possible AI use, review pasted content, and see how the document evolved from the first keystroke to submission.
It is a free alternative to Draftback, Revision History, Grammarly Authorship, and Originality.ai, with rich process insights, better privacy, and no subscription required.
Built on peer-reviewed research published in Education Sciences (2023). Used in 100+ countries.
⚙️ How does it work?
The extension reads the edit history Google already maintains for every document. Click "Writing Process Report" in the ribbon and it processes everything locally on your device and generates an interactive report instantly.
🛠️ How do I use it?
➛ Step 1: Add this extension to your browser
➛ Step 2: Open your Google document
➛ Step 3: Click "Writing Process Report" in the newly added ribbon below the toolbar
➛ Step 4: If needed, you can change the settings to see a simpler button instead
🔗 How to share the writing process report?
➛ Share Link: Copy the report URL and share it with your teacher or student
➛ Share PDF: Click "Download Process Report" in the sidebar
📚 For teachers: integration guide
Visit www.processfeedback.org/gdocs for step-by-step instructions, including how to use the teacher dashboard for large classes.
❌ Having trouble installing?
➛ You need to be logged in to Chrome to install any extension
➛ Reload the Google Docs page after installing
➛ Your institution's IT department may need to approve new extensions
🔒 Privacy
➛ Privacy by default: your data never leaves your device unless you choose to share. When you do share, it collects only what's needed for that report.
➛ Data is only collected when a user chooses to save online to share a report, and only to enable that sharing
➛ For co-edited documents, obtain permission from all co-authors before viewing or sharing process reports
➛ Full privacy policy: processfeedback.org/privacy
📜 Terms and conditions
By installing the extension you agree to the terms at processfeedback.org/terms
📖 Research citation
Adhikari, Badri; "Thinking Beyond Chatbots' Threat to Education: Visualizations to Elucidate the Writing or Coding Process"; Education Sciences; 2023.
Latest reviews
- Carlos Toledo
- Excellent, detailed, and helpful beyond just AI detection. I use it in FYC and it impressed me with the detailed metrics. A must for process-oriented instructors.
- Katie Riddle
- This is amazingly helpful with my high school English students. Thank you!
- Lara Hernandez Corkrey
- So much information is provided! I know that I am still learning all the capabilities, but I feel much more prepared in my writing conferences when I can share these insights with my students.
- Kathleen McKim
- The cleanest and most comprehensive tool that I've found. I keep wanting to understand more about the reports than I do. I wish I knew how to use it from the beginning to the end of an assignment so that students could understand more about their own writing process. Currently, I am using it to check for Academic Malpractice, but it has great potential beyond this function.
- Edward Shea
- Wonderful for a College English professor. I have my students exclusively work in Google Docs now. It has saved a lot of headaches for proving students didn't use AI as well as helping prove when they did. Just as a math teach might ask for students to show their work, I have now begun asking my English students to show theirs through this Chrome extension. It's helped lower instances of generative AI as well as catch those who do.
- Kristine Roudebush
- Better than any other product out there! It let's you dive into what actually happened on the doc during the writing process with a degree of specificity you will have to see to believe. IT'S AMAZING!! I showed my students how it works, and they started sweating.
- Allyson Stone
- This tool is invaluable to me as a teacher! It increases accountability, allows me to give targeted feedback on the writing process, and makes reviewing student work quicker and easier. 10/10 recommend!!
- Cady Nosbisch
- It has been very helpful in order to have a true sense of the document history of my students. It has helped identify pasting from outside sources and led to both good discussions and accountability with students.
- Julie Ainsworth
- As a teacher in an online high school this tool has proven invaluable for assuring authenticity. I use it for every submission. For submissions where, according to the report generated, there are doubts about the origin of any student work, it give great info to fall back on for conversations with the student. Love it! Have recommended it to all my colleagues.
- Matt Thiessen
- So far so good, I've only used this addition for about a month and a half with only 4 reviews, but it seems to be doing its part. It's nice to see the review side of things, great pointers and information. Found it very useful.
- Monica
- Excellent extension that is helpful for revision. Writers can see how many times they repeat words and quickly identify filler words and boring verbs. The software also helps writers document their work, should they be asked about AI content. Writers can quickly see what they copied and pasted and discuss what and why they made the copy/paste choices, especially if using AI. For professors, it's a great tool encourage accountability and removing some of the burden of having to resist cheating when it's made so easy via AI. The extension isn't cheat-proof, but it certainly discourages cheating, is transparent, and offers useful reports for writers, students, and professors.
- William Myers
- This is the best tool I have found to monitor whether students are doing their work or whether they are just copying and pasting it.
- Isaac Martinez
- I absolutely love this program. I just started using this Process Feedback this week to help me grade research essays. It is truly exciting to see my students' paper being broken down to key analytics to help determine if students are doing their own work. I strongly recommend all educators who plan on having their students type papers to download or grab as an extension. Fantastic tool.
- Stephanie Douglas
- Really helpful with all the data that you provide along with the playback! I love it.
- Jennifer Meresman
- This has been a very useful app for me as a college English teacher!
- Kofi Amoah
- It has been really helpful so far. Used it on two essays (as a teacher) and it is encouraging a bit more academic integrity from my students.
- Joshua Puey
- Very impressed so far!
- Peter Strain
- Still learning its ins and outs. Very impressed so far. Can instantly see how long a student has been working on an assignment-a good correlation to quality and depth. The activity bar shows the rythm of their work.
- Kendy Richards
- I just discovered this extension, and it's working great! I teach high school English and want my students to submit their work via Google Docs this year. I'm already seeing the benefits of a program such as this one. At minimum, it takes away the temptation to simply copy and paste work that might not be fully theirs. I highly recommend for teachers who accept online submissions.
- Courtney Bussell
- As an ESL professor with 50 writing students, this extension changed my first essay assignment of the semester. In one week it did two equally important things: it confirmed that my strongest writers really did write their impressive essays (one student had over 1,600 edits, and I could see her genuine process), and it showed me exactly which submissions were pasted in wholesale with almost no history. No accusations, no guesswork, just evidence. It runs locally and respects privacy, it's free, and it pairs perfectly with requiring work to be typed directly in Google Docs. It's seamless and easy to use. Thank you to the developers and whoever makes it possible for us to use it for free!
- Jesse Atkinson
- Best free software I've come across for monitoring potential student AI use.
- Craig Louwen
- Amazing resource for teachers checking plagarism and Ai usage on Google Docs! I showed this tool to both my faculty and class and it blew their minds that we were able to see in so much detail what they were doing. The processed video should typing and editing is a great thing to help disuade students from mass copy and pasting too! 10/10!
- Lance Talstra
- Outstanding tool for monitoring student work on Google Classroom.
- harry west
- Works as intended. You can check each word written/erased, each copy/paste and all the edits made during the document's own timeline from start to end. You can get a downloadable pdf with the metadata, writting flow, editing time, editing activity, characters added/removed, the typing speed timeline, etc. You can also edit the google doc from your phone and all the changes are reflected as well (no need to install the plugin in the phone). I didnt find any optional charge or subscription for a premium version either (lets hope Google doesnt get too greedy). PD: Im currently working in a personal proyect and this is the only free tool which proves that my work is HUMAN and not AI for now.
- Jenna Hohmann
- Process feedback is so helpful. I'm thankful it's in my teacher toolkit now.
- Sara Disu
- I've only used this to view a student's work twice, but each time it's been invaluable. Viewing the pacing stats has been enough to prove plagiarism on both occasions.
- Nitin Bhojraj
- As a teacher, Process Feedback has been incredibly valuable. My original goal was to prevent students from using AI in their papers, but it has also given me the ability to work with students on early draft/outlines of their papers to give them instruction early one, and insight into how students work - based on time statistics and video replay. I can't recommend this enough.
- James Thibaudeau
- Beautiful
- Bryan Clintberg
- Fantastic and very helpful to ensure students are honest regarding their ownership of their original work. Sadly, I have needed to show parents when students have obviously copy and pasted in entire blocks of work generated by AI (showing the machine code from it). This extension allows me to show this.
- Stuart MACKINTOSH
- Has been so useful for me to track students, and they take greater ownership of their own work now they know they are being monitored. As mentioned by others, it also helps exonerate students under suspicion. Have shared with many colleagues.
- Mrs. Walter
- I have been meaning to write this review for a while now. This is a fantastic tool for so many reasons. I love all of the data it provides even though I don't know what some of it means yet. I feel tools like this are key to understanding writing patterns.
- Lauren Paquette
- Excellent Source! Better than other tools I have paid for to use.
- Barry Redmond Carvajal
- This has become part of the teacher's toolkit in my school. Great piece of software.
- Ismat Dewji Sheriff
- Excellent! Very helpful to identify the student's thinking process.
- Heidi Rizley
- I can't believe how many features this extention has! So much data. So helpful.
- Carrye De Mers
- Very impressed with how this extension works. I appreciate being able to share reports. The data points produced by the report provide excellent talking points when trying to distinguish if student work is authentic.
- Dana Chincarini
- As a high school English teacher, this extension is SO HELPFUL. I can see the writing process and easily determine whether or not students are using AI. I can also see a more in-depth editing history than what Google Docs offers.
- Andy Ballard
- Only just found it. Used it today and it exonerated a student whom I thought had cheated by copy and pasting from elsewhere by replaying his writing process. Amazing. All teachers should use this free tool
- Adam Boorstein
- Fantastic extension for teachers. It helps identify students cheating. The identification of pasting events and if the copied text was from inside or outside the document is very helpful, a long with the time spent editing the document it is very easy to identify students that used AI to write. If it would build in an automatic AI detector it would be amazing.
- Brendan
- Powerful extension that provides insight into your writing
- Amanda Stockley
- So helpful in the age of AI and student apathy.
- Maria Pocek
- Process Feedback provides invaluable information, especially for teachers. I find the copy/paste analysis incredibly useful (more detailed than other apps I've tried). These reports also serve as great springboards for conversations with students and their parents/guardians. I'd highly recommend it!
- Gia Bao Ngo
- nice
- Kevin Thompson
- This is amazing!
- Adam H
- Very useful as a tool for teachers and teaches students to not just blindly copy-paste!
- Theo Löfgren
- Very good tool, was able to see which of my group-members cheated in the document when they copy-pasted straight from GPT.
- Brooke Anhder
- In ELA, we encourage students to use the writing process to BUILD an essay. Process Feedback has helped me as a teacher, be able to see this process in action. I can watch a sped up display of the student typing at any point in the document's history. This is much more helpful than checking a timestamp on a student's document. Process Feedback has helped me see when students use copy and paste, versus revising, which has been a helpful in detecting AI use as well. I'm VERY grateful it's availble for free to educators. Our school's tech department allowed us to install it on our chrome browser.
- Jennifer Lee
- The BEST app I've used for seeing a student's writing process and to check for plagiarism. The large text (over 25 words) copy/paste is amazing and I really like seeing the video of their writing process, where you can watch them drop whole blocks of text into a document. My admin backs me up when I give a zero with proof from Process Feedback attached. This should be used by ALL teachers. It is a lifesaver!
- Molly DeLosa
- I love this. I have caught so many kids plagiarizing with the large text copy/paste. It can often be a difficult thing to prove that a kid plagiarized an essay, but this is a great tool to use to have that conversation with a student, and in my experience, when they see that it says their writing came from an outside source, they will most likely own up to it. Please don't make teachers pay for it!
- James Neve
- This is an outstanding tool; I pray it can remain free- this is EXACTLY the way technology should work for us to make education more transparent and accountable. To make big bucks off of a serious need such as this addresses would be a typical example of the utter failings of capitalism, in my honest opinion. Google hopefully paid the developer a one-time SUBSTANTIAL sum to share this product. I just discovered this tool in May of '26, and I use it in my AP Research class. Without it, accountability would be more difficult. I've been paying for Draftback all year, on my own dime, which is a champagne problem, I admit. ANYWAY, sorry for the rant. I love this VERY HELPFUL TOOL. Please let it be free.