Reflect

The question isn't whether the student wrote the essay, it's whether they can talk about it.

Any student who genuinely wrote something can tell you what came easily and what didn't, which argument they're most confident in and why, what they cut or reconsidered. A student who handed a prompt to an AI and submitted the output cannot have that conversation. Neither can one who had someone else write their essay for them.

Some composition instructors have moved to pass/fail essays and put their graded rubric on the conversation that follows. This is an attempt to do that at scale.

Reflect asks up to five questions about your essay. The responses generate an engagement score based on the response quality. This is not a final verdict on whether the learner wrote the essay, but it can be part of a larger picture of learner engagement levels.