Academic integrity for the AI era | Word · Google Docs
See how the essay
was written.
Sennel records how each essay is written, in Word or Google Docs, and seals that record to the submitted file. You get the replay, the passages worth a look, and a decision you can stand behind. Work students wrote themselves clears in a glance. Work that arrived from somewhere else shows itself.
One course, your rules for consent and retention. We set it up with you.
When photography arrived, critics predicted the end of painting. Instead, painters stopped competing with the camera on likeness and turned to what the lens could not do: the impression of light, the feeling of a moment, the visible hand.
Daguerre's announcement of 1839 was received in Paris as both a marvel and a threat. Paul Delaroche is often quoted as declaring that from that day painting was dead, though the attribution is doubtful; what is certain is that within a decade the portrait miniaturists had largely lost their trade to the studio photographer, and that the Salon juries of the 1850s were still arguing over whether a photograph could be admitted as art at all.
¶ 2 · 412 words arrived at 10:05 PM · unchanged in finalWhat survived was not the craft of likeness but the reasons for looking. A portrait could now be had in minutes; a painting had to justify its hours, and the justification became the subject.
- ReviewExternal arrival in paragraph 2412 words · unchanged in final · outside accepted quotationOpen passage →
- OrdinaryEverything else was composed in session768 words · 61 revisions · 4 h 10 min activeReplay →
Illustrative record. Sennel shows what it observed and where it could not, and leaves the decision to you.
The essay alone can't tell you.
A finished essay used to be evidence of the work behind it. Generated prose changed that. A score guessed from the text leaves you arguing with a number. A record of the writing gives you something to look at, show a student, and take to a committee.
When photography arrived, critics predicted the end of painting. Instead, painters stopped competing with the camera on likeness and turned to what the lens could not do: the impression of light, the feeling of a moment, the visible hand. The new machine did not replace the painter's eye. It clarified what the eye had been for.
When photography arrived, critics predicted the end of painting. Instead, painters stopped competing with the camera on likeness and turned to what the lens could not do: the impression of light, the feeling of a moment, the visible hand. The new machine did not replace the painter's eye. It clarified what the eye had been for.
Illustrative. Sennel reports the arrival and whether it survived to the final text. What it means is your call.
A record instead of a guess.
Three steps, in the tools your students already use.
- Step 1
ENGL 102 · Essay 2
Ready when you are.
Opens in Word · due Friday 11:59 PMStart a paper
Students pick the assignment and write in Word or Google Docs, the tools they already use, so there is nothing new to learn.
- Step 2Recording · 42 min · saved
Write as usual
Sennel keeps a running record of the document as it grows: what was typed, what was revised, what arrived from outside, and when.
- Step 3
Receipt
Essay 2 is in.
essay-2.docx · 1,180 words · 11:42 PMSealed to its recordSubmit
The exact file is sealed to its record. Students get a receipt. You get the replay and any passages worth a look.
Ordinary work clears in a glance.
Your class arrives sorted by what needs attention. Most rows need none. The few that do come with the passage, the moment, and the reason.
| Student | Submitted | State | Reason | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A. Okafor | Tue 11:42 PM | Review | External arrival, ¶ 2, 412 words unchanged | |
| J. Lindqvist | Tue 9:03 PM | Ordinary | Composed in session · 3 h 10 min | |
| M. Reyes | Tue 10:51 PM | Ordinary | Composed in session · 2 h 24 min | |
| S. Patel | Wed 12:07 AM | No observation | 38 min unobserved · ¶ 4 affected | |
| R. Nakamura | Tue 8:15 PM | Ordinary | Composed in session · 4 h 02 min | |
| T. Brennan | Tue 11:58 PM | Ordinary | Composed over two sessions |
Illustrative docket. Names and times are examples.
- Docket
Your class, sorted by what needs attention
Ordinary work clears with one action. Anything else opens a brief.
- Brief
One page per submission
The passage, the moment, the reason, in plain English.
- Replay
Watch the essay take shape
Scrub the document as it was written. Jump straight to the moment a finding points at.
- Decision
Mark it fine or note a concern
Your decision is recorded with the evidence behind it.
Evidence you can stand behind.
Findings point at exact passages and exact moments, so what you tell a student, or a committee, is something they can see too.
Exact passages, exact moments
A finding names the paragraph, the time it arrived, and whether it survived to the final draft.
Observation, then interpretation
What Sennel saw is shown separately from what it makes of it, so a student or a committee can see the same thing you do.
Gaps are visible
Where the record has a gap, you see the gap, its length, and the text it affects.
Deterrence built in
Students know their writing has a record. Shortcuts get harder, and honest work gets an advocate.
Every decision comes with its evidence, so an appeal turns on a record instead of a score.
Built for a classroom.
One button. Write as usual. A receipt when it's in. Honest work gets a record that speaks for it.
What is recorded. The assignment document during the writing session: what was typed, revised, and pasted, and when. Everything else on a student's computer stays theirs.
What students get. Their own copy of the exact file they submitted, and a receipt that says it is in.
Your rules. Consent and retention follow your institution's policy, agreed before the first assignment.
Your essay is in.
- Course
- ENGL 102
- Assignment
- Essay 2
- File
- essay-2.docx · 1,180 words
- Submitted
- Tuesday 11:42 PM
Illustrative receipt.
Bring it to one course this term.
A pilot is one course and one assignment cycle, on your rules for consent and retention. We set it up with you and your academic-technology staff. Start with a 20-minute walkthrough on a real essay, or go straight to the pilot.
- A walkthrough is a 20-minute call on a real essay. Bring your questions.
- Setup happens with your academic-technology staff. Students install a small companion; you get the docket.
- One assignment cycle: students write as usual, you review.
- Then we look at what the record showed, together.