Google Docs Draftback to See Typing History

When students are working with Google Docs you can use the Draftback Chrome extension to overview their edits on the doc like a motion picture. You can use this to look at scholar development or to detect plagiarism in Google Docs.

Draftback is a Chrome extension. It does NOT gather person info. However, it may be blocked by your Google Workspace Applications Admin. Please get in touch with them to have it unblocked due to the fact oftentimes extensions are blocked by default by your faculty.

Utilizing Draftback

After setting up the Draftback Chrome extension you will see a button in the upper proper of the document indicating how quite a few revisions there are. Click on on the revision to see a video clip of what seems like the pupil typing the document.

Detect Plagiarism in Google Docs

If you suspect a college student of plagiarizing you can use Draftback to see if they pasted a large quantity of textual content at the moment. Detect in the animation previously mentioned that it displays typing character by character.

If you are a Google Classroom person you can also use the plagiarism instrument. It only is effective on Google Docs, as does Draftback.