What tools are teachers actually using to check student work for AI these days?
I know Turnitin is the big one most schools have built in, but curious if there’s a secondary tool teachers run independently when they’re suspicious about something specific. Genuinely interested in which tools have become the default in education versus the broader market of detectors.
Turnitin is the institutional default at most schools that have it licensed, but a lot of individual teachers also run a free check through GPTZero independently when something feels off, especially if they don’t fully trust Turnitin’s score alone.
Some departments have started using Proofademic specifically because it’s positioned for academic use rather than general content, and the sentence-level breakdown is more useful for grading conversations than a single overall percentage.
Worth noting institutional adoption lags individual teacher experimentation by a lot. Teachers often try several free tools informally before their department settles on (or licenses) anything specific, which means the actual landscape on the ground is messier than official school policy suggests.
From a lecturer’s perspective, the tool matters less than whether the instructor has a consistent process for what happens after a flag. A detector check with no follow-up conversation or appeal path is a much bigger problem than which specific tool generated the score.
anecdotally most teachers i’ve talked to use whatever’s free and built into their existing LMS, since paying out of pocket for a separate tool isn’t something most schools reimburse without a formal request process.