Enabling educators
to assess authentic student work
by validating original writing

Verify the absence of other writers without detection - authenticity when it matters!
(applies to ghostwriting, essay mills, text copying, generative AI)

 

OUR UNIQUE METHOD

Authorship Validation

~Norvalid is a new and reliable method to confirm original student writing. We use a multi-step process to validate authenticity, confirming the absence of ghostwriting, contract cheating and unethical AI writing. The system can be used alongside existing plagiarism detectors and integrated with your LMS. Note: don't confuse our method with AI detection.

CONFIRMING HONESTY

Shifting the focus in assessment security “from cheating detection to confirming honesty” 

PROVIDING EVIDENCE

Our method provides evidence-based insight reports for assessors to grade in confidence.

MITIGATE FALSE POSITIVES

Implementing multiple authentication steps to reduce the risk of false positives.

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(Note: our method is not AI detection, which is a flawed strategy)

HOW IT WORKS

Compare with previous work
and talk to the student to Confirm

Our method is an automated multi-step verification process. We compare the submission with an authentic writing sample from the student and ask various types of questions from the submission to help confirm authorship.

By verifying the student's original writing style and confirming the student's in-depth knowledge of the submission's content;

We confirm student honesty and prove the absence of AI and ghostwriters.
Thus, making it unnecessary to search for cheating.

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Read more about how we determine original student writing in our blog article here.

Works with your LMS

Use our stand-alone tool or integrate our system with your learning platform using LTI 1.3 (LMS = blue below)
The assignment management process: create assignment, then assign to studens, then students handing in followed by the automatic question session, then the automatic integrity check, with results presented in an actionable insights report, before the assessment response can be assessed.
WE ARE REDEFINING THE PROBLEM

AI writing = Ghostwriting

  • When someone else is the author of the text, this is referred to as Ghostwriting. AI is amplifying ghostwriting.
  • ~Norvalid looks for the student's writing style instead of detecting other sources of writing.
  • For assessments which require original student writing, our method solves the age-old problem of contract cheating and helps manage the challenge of unethical use of AI.

Illustration visualizing how AI writing is ghostwriting. The left side illustrates a student prompting an AI to write their essay, and the right side illustrates a student paying a human ghostwriter to write the same essay.
CONTACT FORM

If you are interested, contact us!

Our Authorship Validation System is now available for trial customers.