EssayPin
An LMS-integrated tool where students submit essays with keystroke telemetry, minting a privacy-preserving 'authorship receipt' professors can verify without seeing the actual writing process — designed for academic-integrity reviews.
college and graduate students worried about false AI-accusation flags
- One-click 'submit with proof' for Canvas, Moodle, and Blackboard that attaches a keystroke receipt to the assignment
- Privacy-preserving verification where professors see timing and edit statistics but never the raw keystrokes
- Dispute flow that lets a student challenge an AI-fraud accusation by sharing the receipt
- Cohort analytics for instructors showing aggregate 'handwritten vs. pasted' patterns across a class
False AI-accusation is now among the top student complaints to university ombudspersons; EssayPin gives students an opt-in defense without forcing professors to rely on unreliable AI detectors.
HN post explicitly frames the human-vs-AI trust crisis as the central motivationStudents are being falsely accused of using AI. It's harming them. ↗
GPTZero and Turnitin face accuracy lawsuits; authorship-proof is the opposite, open approachStudents are being falsely accused of using AI. It's harming them. ↗
Students rarely pay directly but institutions will license for equity and safetyStudents are being falsely accused of using AI. It's harming them. ↗
Academic-integrity tooling is a durable arms race
LMS APIs are well-documented; browser telemetry is the only real build work