Process Feedback for Google Docs

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Shows the edit history of a Google Docs document.

Latest reviews

• (2025-08-26) Kellie Gudenas: This tool is extremely useful in my high school English class. I love that I can see a playback of the students' writing process, as well as places where they used copy/paste.
• (2025-08-26) Corie Mcdermott-Fazzino: I this is by far, the most helpful and useful tool I have leveraged as an English professor; and now that it is fully integrated with Google Classroom, it is a seamless part of my reviewing/grading process. First, Process Feedback provides indisputable evidence (in the form of a 'writing movie' and time stamps) that the student did the writing work. Second, the information I learn from the 'writing movie' helps me be more strategic and thoughtful about my own feedback to the student. Finally, students can watch the 'writing movie' and learn more about their own respective writing process: how long did you write; when did you double-back to revise; in what ways did your idea evolve; when did you write; etc. It helps students thinking metacognitively about their writing in an empowering manner. This tools is amazing. Please keep free.
• (2025-08-26) Ian Rennie: This looks like an excellent tool if you need further evidence to conclude whether or not learners have been misusing AI in their assignments. It is nowhere near conclusive but a useful tool in an educators armoury.
• (2025-08-25) Sarah Phelps: Process feedback provides quick, invaluable information about the writing process, including time spent typing, copy-paste events, etc. It's truly a game-changer for teachers.
• (2025-08-22) M S: An incredible tool, I am grateful for it's great versatility and straightforward interface.
• (2025-08-19) Rebecca Marston: The scope of this feedback is so helpful in validating student work in this AI era. Bravo. It's a fantastic tool that saves me hours of compliance conversations.
• (2025-08-14) Owen Williams: As an English teacher this is an incredible tool to understand the thought process of a student as they are writing. I am able to watch them construct the writing, and find places to personalize feedback based on their own approach. I have dreamed of being able to see this much process data for years, and I never thought it would be a reality.
• (2025-08-14) Sheralee Thomas: I'm an instructional designer and recommend this extension to all the faculty I work with. It is free and safe and is the best tool that I have found thus far to give to faculty to help them keep their students on the straight and narrow, so to say!
• (2025-08-13) Jennifer Hayton: Process feedback is a great tool to track how students are progressing with their work and where they may be using technology to assist them. However, I have found that if a student is voice typing it will show up as a paste event. This is also the case for spelling/grammar checks. This can make authenticity more challenging to prove for assessment work.
• (2025-08-08) A J: great extension, does what it says it does, for free. I use it for checking work that has been submitted. Very very effective
• (2025-08-07) Mark Davies: The way this interfaces with Google Classroom is a particularly effective part of what it offers.
• (2025-08-05) JASON KELLER: I have been an English high school teacher for the past three years and I just came across Process Feedback last semester and it is possibly one of the best tools for vetting student work I have ever used AND it's absolutely free! Conventional software for teachers like Turnitin might be useful for more traditional forms of plagiarism Process Feedback allows for me to look at smaller analysis writing submissions which I have found have a high rate of false positives for AI flagging. It is also far better than the tedium of looking at a students document history using google's native function. I love love love this plugin and would happily pay monthly for it should it ever decide to require a paywall!
• (2025-08-04) Haley Birkeland: I was so lucky when I ran into the creator of this extension at the LA Writer's Conference. I was looking for a replacement for Draftback (after they started charging a monthly fee) so I was excited to see a new option. I love the focus on the writing/creating process and the quick and easy layout of the reports. It has all the features of Draftback and MORE. The feature of being able to share a link to the report is a helpful addition too. The creators have gone the extra mile to share valuable resources in the provided teacher guide. I also appreciate the positive tone throughout the website about academic integrity and writing as a process.
• (2025-07-29) Jenni Moors: This is a great extension and well worth staying free for teachers
• (2025-07-20) Ros Robertson: This is a fantastic tool that enables me to be very specific with students about their use of outside help with their writing. It encourages trust and open communication that helps learning, rather than resentfully held suspicion that cannot be proven.
• (2025-07-17) Jacob Dunlap: Absolutely essential for educators. Thank you so much for this excellent tool. Like others, I'm looking forward to the "show external paste only" feature.
• (2025-07-17) Conrad Bredenkamp: Really helps me to get a good idea of what happened in the work that I am reviewing. A plethora of information that helps the teaching process forward.
• (2025-07-14) Melissa D'Angelo [Staff]: Love this tool so much and have caught a few students plagiarizing, unfortunately (but fortunately for having this program!). Please don't get rid of it - looking forward to the upcoming update you mention: "Show external paste only (coming soon..)". I really appreciate the "Paste" section and "Playback" section -- I use those ones most often Thank you for all your work and the fact that it is free :)
• (2025-06-26) John Sowash: What a great tool! There is no way you can STOP students from using AI. Instead, focus on the writing PROCESS! This extension is the perfect tool you need to understand HOW your students are writing. The insights that Process Feedback provides will help improve your writing process and support student learning.
• (2025-06-14) Rebecca Eastman: Wonderful program! can see so much information and helps with monitoring my students work! love it!
• (2025-06-11) Carolina Waters: It is a great extension. Very helpful to authenticate work and provide feedback.
• (2025-06-10) Evan Statema: Great extension. After deleting draftback due to it having a charging fee, I downloaded Process Feedback which offered the same thing as draftback, but free!
• (2025-06-09) Ashton Palmer: This is an excellent extension. The features are more useful than Draftback and it is faster. I really like that I can see the students scrolling up and down in their documents. It is helpful for authenticating the originality of work, but it is also useful in demonstrating what the writing process looks like to students who may not be as confident about their process.
• (2025-06-07) Matthew Wilson: When Draftback starting charging, I switched to this, and I have to say it's much better than Draftback.
• (2025-06-05) Caylee Stead: Excellent for English teachers. Please keep this free. Revision history is what I used to use and I had to stop after they started charging.
• (2025-06-05) Trevor Cameron: A tool that is literally essential to assessment post-AI. The fact that tools like this are not being created and made free by companies like openAI is criminal.
• (2025-06-04) WILLIAM DEACON: An incredibly useful tool for all Language teachers to ensure the integrity of the writing process within the classroom.
• (2025-06-04) hayson keller: I am an English teacher and this has been a game changer for monitoring student work. I'm not a fan of policing students but unfortunately it is my reality given the power and ubiquity of AI now.
• (2025-06-02) IOANA CIUPERCA: This tool is amazing! I can justify to a student the suspicion of plagiarized content using the extension info from all the copy/paste sessions. I will work this into my syllabus, with a clear specification of unacceptable digital behavior. Thank you for keeping it free!
• (2025-05-30) Kelly O'Brien-Yetto: This tool is a fantastic resource for teachers. It provides excellent, easy to understand information, and it integrates seamlessly with Google Classroom. I far prefer this to similar tools that I have used. It is also a fantastic resource to help substantiate claims about academic dishonesty.
• (2025-05-30) Nichole McCoy: Amazing resource!!!!! Love how easy it is to use and how much information it gives me.
• (2025-05-29) David Adams: Excellent and free. Tons of data on each document. Easy to use. Helpful tutorials for some of the more complicated features. My only complaint is that the "ribbon" pops up on documents even if I have the option turned off for it. It seems to only do so when the Docs toolbar at the top is minimized. That's a bit of an annoyance, but overall, not terrible.
• (2025-05-29) Kym Wasley: What a fantastic and helpful resource! I will recommend it to all my co-workers. Helpful tech to detect AI usage and so easy to use! I love that it is FREE !
• (2025-05-29) Yifan Shen: This is absolutely a powerful tool for teacher to understand the pattern of how students work towards their tasks. It also helps tremendously for teachers to identify potential academic misconducts so teachers can constructively help students from there.
• (2025-05-23) Jacqueline Perkins: I am truly impressed with the ease and wealth of information this gives me - so much better than Draftback was.
• (2025-05-23) Mary Graham: This app provides more information than Draftback, allowing writers to reflect more fully on their process. Helping address unauthorized AI usage is just another benefit!
• (2025-05-23) Marty Shoup: Process Feedback is an incredibly useful tool that shows a student's editing and revision process as well as their thought process as they write. It also identifies sections of copy/paste, which may or may not be a red flag. The data provided is pretty remarkable- active typing time, total task duration, and user contributions (which is great when a group is working on the same doc) and more. It's a great alternative to Draftback!
• (2025-05-22) Gordon Southam: This is helpful to understand how much copy pasting the students are doing. Disheartening, but helpful to understand how the students work was created. I teach grade 9 geo in french.
• (2025-05-22) P Ford: This has been great for seeing how the students are working on their documents and how to best help them as they hit roadblocks. There are so many tools; I can't wait to explore more. Thanks for keeping this FREE.
• (2025-05-20) Stacia Gill: I was so happy to find this tool because it is FREE! Also, the reports given were quite helpful. I could talk with students about spending more time on their writing and how that can help them improve as writers.
• (2025-05-16) Jamile Forcelini: Amazing app. It helps analyze writing processes and it provides many details! Thank you so much!!
• (2025-05-16) Christine Reilly: This has been helpful when assessing a students typing skills and if keyboarding will be supportive.
• (2025-05-16) Jørgen Ruud Gomperud: Nice substitute to draftback. Works as expected. I would maybe want to see changes every 1 seconds, rather than every 5.
• (2025-05-15) Darren Drayer: This have been very helpful in the classroom. It is easy to use and provides helpful information about students' writing process.
• (2025-05-15) Paul Norrie: I have found this app easy to use and shows a lot of great information, helping me to see the writing process for the students. Being able to view the revision history like a video was very helpful as well, and the analytics it provides.
• (2025-05-13) Kelly Castillo _ Staff - MiddleCreekHS: This app is amazing! I shows edit history and playback in real time. It also provides sites where information has been copied from. As an educator, it is an extremely valuable tool.
• (2025-05-09) Maggie Hannasch: I love this app and I really appreciate the immediate feedback it gives for student writing.
• (2025-05-02) David Noller: Tremendous. What a gamechanger! The ability to see the editing process, view statistics, and track the instances of copy and paste makes detecting academic fraud so much easier than simply using version history. When my students know I have this tool, they are much less likely to attempt to use AI summaries.
• (2025-04-30) Andrew Steele: An amazing extension that is becoming almost necessary in order to see the origins of content from students in today's age.
• (2025-04-30) Richard Winn: Agreed with the other reviews about Process Feedback being an effective tool to combat inappropriate use of AI in the classroom. However, I would also highlight its value as an actual writing tool, and as a satisfying way of seeing the "story" of your writing. I have my students install the extension, run the report, and then provide a link to the report on their doc before they turn it in. Then they can benefit from the report as well, plus it saves me the time of running it if I doubt its authenticity. I also agree with another review that this is a better version of Draftback, for anyone who used that.