Resources
Notes for teachers, lecturers and school leaders on reading how students actually work with AI, instead of guessing from the finished text.
IB AI policy: how teachers authenticate EE and IA work
The four checks the IB expects before a teacher authenticates coursework, what the 2027 Extended Essay adds, and the evidence to keep when students use AI.
How should university essay assignments change for ChatGPT?
Staged drafts, oral checks, in-class writing, AI chat logs or a process record: five ways to run a university essay assignment, compared.
Cognity vs Brisk Inspect Writing: which shows the writing process?
Brisk Inspect Writing replays how a Google Doc was written. Cognity records the AI conversation itself. What each one shows a teacher, and when to use which.
What is a process portfolio, and how do you assess one?
When AI can produce any finished text, the finished text stops being evidence of learning. A process portfolio is what replaces it, and it is more useful than the essay ever was.
IB AI policy checklist: 9 questions for coordinators
The IB requires AI-generated work to be credited in the text and bibliography. Here is a nine-point checklist for coordinators turning that requirement into a policy teachers can run.
How to write AI rules for one assignment
School-wide AI policies are too broad to teach from. Here is how to write AI rules for a single assignment, with three worked examples a teacher can copy.
What to say when a student pastes from ChatGPT
A script for the conversation after a student hands in AI-generated text. Not an accusation, not a tribunal. Five questions that lead somewhere.
Cognity vs Grammarly Authorship: which record does a teacher need?
Grammarly Authorship lets a student prove how a document was written. Cognity lets a teacher set the rules and read the whole process. An honest comparison of what each record contains.
How can a teacher tell if a student used ChatGPT?
Why the text can't settle it, why detectors don't either, and three ways to see how a student actually worked.
Cognity vs Turnitin Clarity: two ways to see the writing process
Both tools show teachers how student writing was produced. They differ in where the AI lives, who buys them, and what the record contains. An honest comparison.
An AI acknowledgement template for IB and international schools
The IB requires AI-generated work to be credited in the text and bibliography. A plain acknowledgement template your students can copy, and how a teacher can check it against a record.