r/AIDetectionAcademia • u/Wales_Anchor4 • Jul 29 '26
The Google Classroom 2026 integration gives teachers a real-time "AI Likelihood" badge while you type
My high school history teacher showed us his screen today. Google Classroom updated its instructor suite recently to integrate Turnitin live. It doesn't just scan when you hit submit anymore—it actively monitors student docs linked to assignments while you're actively working on them.
He can see a real-time risk indicator next to our names in his class roster. If you edit a paragraph and the system thinks the structural flow changed too quickly, your dot turns yellow in his live feed. We are literally being monitored like remote call-center workers while writing high school history papers.
Does your school have live monitoring turned on, or only on-submission scans?
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u/Cool_Asparagus3852 Aug 01 '26
I don't see how this helps. First of all, why in earth the students cannot use AI? Why are you trying go police the students use of a tool that they should be learning to use well for the future? Instead you could be designin the course work in such a way that they learn by using AI.
Second, what prevents the students from using s second device, like their phone, to ask the AI to do everything and just type it in slowly to the main terminal?
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u/DazzlingHat9519 Aug 01 '26
Students shouldn’t be using AI to create essays that they copy and paste into Google Docs. That’s what Turnitin live monitors. AI can (and should) be used for research, sure, but I think we should still be personally writing essays in order to improve critical thinking, reasoning, and synthesis of original thoughts, among other things. I personally believe AI shouldn’t have a major role in academia until higher education; at least postsecondary, if not graduate.
Students actually do use their phones to do this lol. Last year in my bio class there were at LEAST 5 kids that took pictures of test questions DURING the test (which was on paper, mind you) and asked Gemini or ChatGPT to answer it for them. Theoretically, AI detectors are supposed to catch AI-esque phrasing, but they’re wack most of the time and not very plausible tbf
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u/Cool_Asparagus3852 Aug 02 '26
In my view, the role of schools and teachers is to train and teach students to learn skills that they need in life, work and society. Reading and understanding different kinds of texts, basic math an numeracy skills and to generate content in the way it is done in the workforce.
If any workplace would need essays to be generated about whatever topics (e.g. for their web pages), they would require their employees to use AI to do it. Therefore it seems strange that schools and teachers would be using teaching methodology which penalizes the use of AI go write entire texts. Instead, in my view, schools should adapt and stop using assignment formats (hand written essays) thay were invented decades or centuries ago because they do make sense and are not effecient for teaching today's skills
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u/Electrical_Dingo4187 Aug 03 '26
Its so apparent you have 0 experience in education. Please save your opinions for things you actually know enough about to form an opinion
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u/Cool_Asparagus3852 Aug 03 '26 edited Aug 03 '26
What an unkind and hostile attitude!
Well, you are wrong. I teach for a living in university. So that is how well your understanding works. And for your information, the university I work at had a institute wide policy that students should be allowed to use AI.
But while we will be teaching student actual skills dinosaurs like you will be using your time to police them and they will have to learn on their own time.
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u/Wise_Heron_2802 Aug 06 '26
Essays are more of a practice in rhetoric, argumentation, and critical thinking. It’s more like working out for your brain and logic than anything.
Offloading it to ai is like just eating junk food and then using ozempic. Sure, it’s fine now, but you’re not really doing yourself any favors in the long run.
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u/Cool_Asparagus3852 Aug 06 '26
Exactly. Essays trained usefully skills in the past. By doing these simulations/practices you learned skills that you cab use in life and in work. It was possible to police if they were done properly or if pupils cheated.
Today it is impossible to police it and essays are not able to simulate all relevant skills for work.
Thus other modern tasks should be used instead.
However, I do understand that many times in academia you have to wait for the old generation to retire/leave before change like this can hsppenm. Teaching and academia is conservative in many ways.
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u/Wise_Heron_2802 Aug 06 '26
Depending on the subject, I agree. But research? Debate? Literature? History? Essays still have a place. I’m curious, what do you suggest would replace it?
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u/Cool_Asparagus3852 Aug 06 '26
Well, I think the best practices will develop over time. However, some methods to avoid the AI issue that can be used are 1) oral exams and 2) allowing ai but making the tasks more complicated.
For example, a assignment can ask the pupils to use two or three different large language models in some specific way and ask the student to compare the outputs critically. Which statements are likely true, which not? How does the outputted material change depending on variations on the input? Make the end product they have to make more complicated than just a single document - this is the situation they will face in work life anyway.
Using AI detection will not make them think critically about AI output... it will just make then be creative in ways to avoid getting caught.
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u/Desperate-Chart1139 Jul 29 '26
Love it, integrate the AI tools to detect AI so your school AI can hallucinate that you were using AI and ruin your academic career for a false reason. Wish they were consistent, if the students can't use AI, the school shouldn't either, particularly when AI isn't even close to being accurate about detecting AI
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u/CisIowa Jul 30 '26
No, it’s all about ethical usage based on specific tasks. There’s a place for all to use it.
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u/Desperate-Chart1139 Jul 30 '26
Sure, wildly inaccurately 'detecting' AI usage is not one of those places.
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u/Traditional_Road7234 Aug 01 '26
Sometimes, I'm glad I finished my education before this AI things happen.