Use Integrity Safeguards

Peerceptiv’s Integrity Safeguards are a suite of tools designed to promote authentic authorship and enable instructors to have greater insight into student work and usage activity. They include optional settings which block copying and pasting within text boxes, provide access to student writing and activity metrics in the Integrity Center, and, when enabled by your institution, AI detection through GPTZero. 

Please be aware that these tools and settings are entirely optional and flexible in adapting to your school, department, or individual assignment’s policies. Our goal is to provide access to supportive tools and information, and instructors and administrators can determine whether and how to use them to best fit their needs. 

Integrity Safeguards Settings

Integrity Safeguards Settings for Reviews

By default, students are blocked from copying and pasting external text sources into their review comment text boxes (copying and pasting links is allowed). This is designed to require students to type out their own thoughts as they review. However, if you would like to allow students to copy and paste from external text sources, please navigate to step 3 of the settings editor, click NEXT to get to the advanced review settings, and click the box highlighted below, ‘Allow copying and pasting of external text sources within review comments.'

Integrity Safeguards Settings for Submissions

You can select whether to require that students upload a file, a link, and/or text for their main work product which will be reviewed by others. Integrity Center usage metrics and version history are only available for text submissions.

If you select the text submission option, then students will be required to type their submissions directly within the Peerceptiv text editor. When they do this, student writing is autosaved and they’ll have access to rich text editing features, similar to other writing platforms. Students can choose to write and edit their work at any time before the submission deadline. After student work is submitted via the text editor, instructors will have access to usage metrics and text version history playback in the Integrity Center.

When you select the Text Submission option, by default students will be blocked from copying and pasting external text sources within the text submission. They will be allowed to copy and paste from one sentence to another internally within the text box window and they’ll also be allowed to copy and paste images and links. 

If you would like students to be allowed to copy and paste from external text sources, then you should check “Allow copying and pasting of external text sources within text submissions.” 

Lastly, if enabled by your institution, you may be able to check the box to Enable GPTZero AI content scanning for file and text submissions. Clicking this box means that you will be able to use the GPTZero AI detection service to scan file and text submissions for AI generated content. 

How to Use the Integrity Center

All peer assessment and live presentation assignments have access to an Integrity Center tab on the left side bar of the assignment dashboard. This tab displays a table with the following metrics for both text submissions and review comments: 

• Additions - each character added
• Deletions - each character deleted 
• Cursor changes - each time the cursor moved to a new place in the text
• Time Active - total time spent actively typing; this does not include inactive time spent open in the browser
• Word Count
• Character Count

You can filter the table by Submissions or Review Comments. Additionally, click the top of the columns to sort low to high or high to low for each metric. 

Text Submissions and Review Comments will also have a link available (far right column of the table) to view the Version History playback. 

Please be aware that usage metrics and version history playback is not available for file and link submissions. 

How to View Version History

Click the link in the far right column of the Student Text Version History table to view Version History. Clicking the play button will allow you to see snapshots of the student writing from each moment that it was auto-saved. Additions will appear highlighted in green and will be under the heading of “Additions,” and Deletions will appear highlighted in red and will be under the heading of “Deletions.” You can press pause at any time to view a particular version of the text.
 

 

How to Use GPTZero

In order to use GPTZero it must have been turned on and approved by your institution. If it was approved for your institution, you can enable GPTZero scanning for your assignment. Please be aware that GPTZero is a third-party tool and Peerceptiv is not responsible for the results. As with any AI Detection service, there is the possibility of false positives. 

In the Integrity Center, click the GPTZero tab. From there, you’ll see all eligible file and text submissions listed. Click Scan Submissions. It may take anywhere from 30 seconds to several minutes for the scan to complete. Come back in a couple of minutes and refresh the page. You’ll see the probability for AI-generated content listed. The link in the right side column will take you to the submission. 

On the Progress page, any submissions with over 90% likelihood of being generated by an LLM will be listed as a reported submission. If you would like, you can approve the report in order to have the submission automatically pulled from the reviewing queue and deleted from the system. The student would then be notified that they need to resubmit. If you do nothing with the report the student will not be notified and the submission will be reviewed as normal. 

If you have any questions about using the Integrity Safeguards features, please contact Peerceptiv Support ([e-mail]).