Product — Chrome extension & web app
Glow Insight
Set a tracked assignment from inside Google Classroom. Students write it in a browser. When the work comes back, the document arrives with a record of how it was written attached to it.
Full walkthrough · 4 min 52 s No audio Recorded in a live Google Classroom
- The teacher's Classroom, with Glow already installed
- Create with Glow, next to the standard Create button
- Setting the rules: pasting, plagiarism check, time limit
- The assignment posts to Classwork with a writing link attached
- The same assignment as the student sees it
- Writing in GlowScribe — including a detour to Google
- Handed in, and the integrity report appears beside the document
- Replaying the session keystroke by keystroke
- The student's own dashboard of open assignments
How it works
Four steps, none of them new
Glow Insight lives inside tools teachers and students already open every day. The extension adds one button; the rest happens on its own.
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Create the assignment in Classroom
A Create with Glow button sits beside Classroom's own Create button on the Classwork page. Give the assignment a title, instructions, points and a due date the way you always would — then choose how the writing should be tracked.
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Set the rules for this piece of work
Block pasting into the editor, switch on the plagiarism check, and set a writing time limit in minutes — or leave it empty for an untimed task. The rules travel with the assignment, so a low-stakes reflection and a graded essay can be treated differently.
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Students write in GlowScribe
The assignment posts to Classwork with a writing link attached. Students open it, see the brief above the page and a live word count below it, and write. Work saves continuously, so a closed tab or a flat battery costs nothing.
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Read the report where you already mark
On hand-in, the document opens in Classroom's grading view with the Glow Insight panel beside it: an overall score, the levels behind it, and the full writing history. Marking happens in exactly the same place it did before.
The integrity report
What the panel tells you
Every number is derived from the session itself — not from a guess about how the finished prose reads. Hover-free, jargon-free, and short enough to check on thirty submissions.
- Overall score
- A single 0–10 summary of the session, so a stack of submissions can be triaged at a glance.
- Copy-paste level
- How much of the final text arrived through the clipboard rather than the keyboard.
- Plagiarism level
- Overlap between the submission and web sources plus previously submitted work.
- AI suspicion
- How closely the writing behaviour resembles text produced elsewhere and moved in, rather than composed in the editor.
- Total time & typing time
- How long the document was open against how much of it was spent actively typing.
- Keystrokes & pastes
- Raw counts. A 600-word essay built from 23 keystrokes and 3 pastes tells its own story.
- Edit density
- How much of the text was revised after it first appeared. Real drafting leaves marks; a paste does not.
- Burstiness
- Whether the writing arrived at a human rhythm or in sudden identical blocks.
- Minute-by-minute
- Words per minute, pastes and backspaces broken out for each minute of the session.
Writing history
Play the essay back
The strongest evidence is not a percentage — it is watching the document build itself. Press play and the submission reconstructs from the first character, at normal speed or up to four times faster, with a scrubber for jumping straight to the interesting parts.
Anything that arrived by paste is marked in amber, in the document and on the timeline, so the shape of the session is readable in a second. Sentences that grew a word at a time look nothing like sentences that appeared whole.
Most of the time this confirms the honest answer: the student wrote it, slowly, with a lot of backspacing. That is worth being able to prove too.
In the box
Everything the extension adds
Create with Glow
A tracked-assignment button injected straight into the Classwork page.
Paste blocking
Turn the clipboard off for a given assignment. Pasted text simply will not enter the editor.
Plagiarism check
Submissions compared against web sources and past work in the same school.
Writing time limit
Set a cap in minutes, counted down in the student's toolbar. Leave it blank for untimed work.
Session replay
Scrub through the whole draft at 1×, 2× or 4×, with pastes marked on the timeline.
Session details
Student, start time, hand-in time and assignment reference on one card.
In-document highlighting
Pasted passages marked in place, so you can see which claims were borrowed.
Marks where they belong
Grade and comment in Classroom's own grading view. Nothing to export or re-enter.
Nothing to install for students
The teacher installs the extension. Students just follow the link in the assignment.
Both sides
What each person actually sees
The teacher
- Classroom, unchanged, with one extra button on Classwork
- A short form for the assignment and its writing rules
- Hand-in counts on the Classwork card, as usual
- An integrity panel beside the submitted document
- A replay control for the full writing session
The student
- The assignment in Classroom with a writing link attached
- A dashboard of open assignments and what is still to start
- A distraction-free editor with the brief kept in view
- A countdown when the task is timed, and continuous autosave
- One Submit button — no file to attach, upload or lose
A note on fairness
A report is a starting point for a conversation, not a verdict.
Glow Insight never flags a student, never emails an administrator, and never decides that work is dishonest. It describes a writing session and shows it to the teacher who set the task. Every judgement stays with the person who knows the student.
Recording is scoped to assignments a teacher explicitly creates with Glow, and to the editor itself. We do not watch other tabs, other sites or anything outside the assignment.
Get started
Try it on one class
Pilots start with a single teacher and a single assignment. Install the extension, set one essay with Glow, and compare what you learn against what you would have known from the finished page alone.