Process Feedback for Google Docs

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Shows the edit history of a Google Docs document.

Latest reviews

• (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.
• (2025-04-29) Stephany Cuellar: Thank you for this, with AI I need to know what they actually wrote
• (2025-04-23) Lesley Younge: I appreciate all of the data provided and the visual layout of the material. My students were surprised to learn I could see this much and that in itself is a great preventative measure. Thank you!
• (2025-04-16) Margaret Lee: This is the best thing ever. Showed it to my students and they were shaking in their boots... great way to discourage and catch cheating, especially in an English class. Already caught some students using AI running old assignments through to test the software. The developers are heroes!
• (2025-04-11) Sally Rauber: I am so grateful for this. With the advent of easily accessible AI for my students, the temptations for cheating are strong. Your product helps us hold students accountable while we teach them the value of critical thinking and the human mind.
• (2025-04-11) James Wright: As a teacher, I think this can be a highly useful tool to help us ensure our students are composing their own writing. It provides a ton of detail!
• (2025-04-11) Andy Kane: This extension is an essential tool to watch students' writing processes. It shows copy/paste events and a time-lapse re-creation of the drafting. While it doesn't explicitly diagnose an A.I.-assist, it show deletions on a timeline--keystrokes that would be less likely if pasting or transcribing from an LLM.
• (2025-04-11) Eric Johnson: This is a great tool for inspecting your writing process. It breaks down the data in so many useful ways.
• (2025-04-08) Mike Nichols: Amazing and useful technology for teachers--especially composition teachers
• (2025-03-27) Mary Hankins: This is great for seeing those documents where students are messaging, being 'sneaky' and erasing what they type. One feature I would like to see is have it show 'who' is putting certain comment when multiple people have editing rights.
• (2025-03-26) Tony Jordan: helpful
• (2025-03-24) Mary Papulis: Process feedback has been so helpful as a writing teacher! Not only can my students use it to see their own writing process, but I can also use it to ensure my students are doing their own writing
• (2025-03-24) Paula Figueroa: This extension is extremely useful! Big thanks to its creators! Highly recommended for teachers.
• (2025-03-20) Drew Daudelin: Just got this to talk with my AP Lang and Comp Class about revisions, process, and yes, academic honesty. Seeing the growth of paragraphs and sentences in the full report is a surprisingly fun point of conversation with students, as they can see the way that even professionals do not craft fully-formed and 100% "done" work-- that there's a recursiveness to the whole thing and an opportunity to do "artsy" writing and revising in small and quick ways. In the academic honesty space, it's a useful took to have, as we continue to talk about the line between 'that might be ok,' and 'that's definitely not your work'.
• (2025-03-20) Nitesh Kafle: The option to PRIVATELY VIEW my writing process is my favorite feature in Process Feedback. It has an option that allows me to explore my writing process without sharing any of my personal information. I can download my process data and explore my writing process locally in my browser without sharing any of my data. I wish more tools provided such options.
• (2025-03-19) Ken Fry: Process Feedback for Google Docs is totally awesome and amazing. With AI detection being virtually impossible when a piece of writing is crafted using AI by a skilled student, being able to review the writing process is becoming critical. I too came from using a similar tool that had been free up until recently, Thank you processfeedback.org for keeping this extension free. I have installed Process Feedback for Google Docs at my school for ALL teachers and students. My hope is that soon my teachers will gain the courage to teach students how to properly use AI writing tools to boost productivity, increase originality, understand the writing process and write prolifically, effectively, with joy and love of creation. Process Feedback is a wonderful tool to facilitate this dream.
• (2025-03-19) Christina Neer: Highly recommend! Easy to install and easy to use. Lots of data given in the reports to help ensure academic honesty.
• (2025-03-19) Michael Campbell: There's another tool on the market that's well known, and has recently changed to a subscription model. Which brings us here. Process Feedback has filled that vacuum, and not only that, it does it better. It's free, the interface is clean, and it's much more user friendly than the other alternative. I'm impressed by the upgrade, and grateful that some developers are still out there trying to make things better for teachers and schools.