Fantastic extension that allows me to see where my students might be having trouble in the writing process. There is no real way to stop students from cheating if allowing them to work digitally on their own, but it's also incredibly difficult to promote good writing practice if requiring students to work on their writing only during class hours (or through hand-written pieces only). Instead, I've found that using Revision History allows me to help them understand the accountability a bit more, and it forces them to work harder to cheat. At some point, it becomes more work to avoid learning and improving as writers, and this app supports that approach. The developer is very receptive to feedback and has made several improvements (multi-tab history, for example) to this already very useful tool.

Revision History has literally changed the way I grade written work in my ELA classes. The program is truly revolutionary and has effectively reduced/eliminated instances of student plagiarism. I am able to show my students the power of Revision History and how I am able to use it to verify the authenticity of student work. After demonstrating to my classes what Revision History is able to do, my students simply do not even bother to plagiarize anymore, as they understand how quickly they will be caught. To the teachers/reviewers complaining about having to pay for a subscription: get over it. I will happily pay the $5 monthly fee (less than a single cup of Starbucks per month) for the peace of mind Revision History brings and the countless hours of aggravation it saves. I hope the creators of Revision History make a fortune off of this program.

Such a good tool for assessing student writing. Being able to see how much time students are spending on the writing process is useful to determine who needs one on one help. Easy to see when and how often students are copying in information, makes it easier to see if they are using someone (or something in the case of AI) else's work. I also get a lot less pushback from parents if I can show them the replay of their student copying in work. The replay function is also very useful to review the editing process with students and see where they can improve. I'm telling all my fellow teachers about this extension.

This is one of the most helpful tools I have when assessing student writing. Being able to see how much time students are spending in comparison to what they produce is great, and knowing what has been pasted in from other sources helps identify plagiarism/inappropriate AI use. Keep the new features coming!

This has been a game changer. I am able to see a video of the drafting process in real time to see chunks of information being pasted in and find AI material. I'd like to be able to download and share the video for parents to see the evidence, etc. when they has questions. I'd also love to be able to see where the info is copied and pasted from, if not from AI.

What a wonderful program. Some folks are complaining about the limit to how many times it can be used a month and what counts as a use, but $32 a year is completely reasonable to be able to see whether a student pasted in a chunk of AI-generated material with the proof to show it happened. This extension will save me LOTS of time in assessing plagiarism situations. I also very much like the verbal-entry to address students reading their AI output in. Four stars? If I had the option of 4.5, that's what I would give. It may not be a possibility, but it would be wonderful if Revision History could distinguish between instances of copying and pasting from within the document--i.e., moving material around as part of a student's revisions--and copying and pasting in new material from an external source.

Overall the features are amazing and work well. However, if you are using the free version, you are limited to 150 documents per month. This is fine, but Revision History automatically starts analyzing any Google doc you open and you lose one of your free documents. It would be extremely helpful to have an easy way to turn the extension on when you want to use it. For now I have to remember to disable the extension before opening Google Docs that are not student assignments.

Good quick reference for teachers. How long they worked on it & large copy paste detected automatically!!!!

This is an excellent extension for keeping students accountable. I now live in terror that one day it will be locked behind a unaffordable pay wall. Thanks for this amazing work team! You are doing us all a service!

Hi all -- Buzz from Revision History here. We've just pushed out a SSO login/sign up option through Google (great!) but it's now forcing some existing Plus users to sign out/sign back in for their Plus status to be reflected (not great...hence the 4 star self-review). We're working on a quick fix to avoid this, but in the meantime if you're facing this issue here is a manual solution. Apologies for the trouble -- reach out to [email protected] with any further questions: Step 1: Click the puzzle piece icon to the right of the URL bar Step 2: Click the Revision History extension icon (which should trigger a pop-up), then click log out Step 3: Click "Activate free document replay" and log back in

We are loving this, the tools are useful such as play back of student work, identification of parts copied and pasted, and time spent on document.

Some of the Plus Analysis tools are useful, such as being able to quickly see if any parts were copied and pasted, however the drafting process replay function is unusable. I tested it on some student essays from last year to see if this was something I could add to my toolbox and potentially replace Draftback, but the replayer made so many errors that it turned legitimate student work into a garbled mess.