By Max Spero, CEO and Co-Founder, Pangram
07/10/2025 – eLearn Magazine
When it comes to checking whether a student assignment is an original product, teachers often ask us if it’s best to scan a student assignment for AI first, then have the teacher review it. Or is it better for the teacher to review it first, then run it through an AI detection tool? In principle either way works, but recent research from the University of Maryland offers an interesting take on the relationship between the teacher, the writing student, AI-generated content and tools including the so-called plagiarism checkers.
At Pangram, our initial advice is: take a look at the work first, then use a review tool. That way, an originality score provided by the tech does not influence the human judgement. But with the right process, there is no harm in doing it the other way around—scan first, then assess. If a high probability score for AI use is returned, maybe read that paper a little more thoroughly. Of course, this makes sense as long as you count on a tool with virtually no false positives….Read Max Spero’s full article at eLearn Magazine here.