In this week’s episode, I will be talking about Draftback - an extension for Google Chrome
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Draftback Extension (Chrome Web Store Link): https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/draftback/nnajoiemfpldioamchanognpjmocgkbg
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TRANSCRIPT:
Hello and welcome to episode number 48 of the one-five. I am your podcast hostess - Tricia Louis - the self-designated tech goddess and I will be coming to you weekly in this audio podcast format with great edtech tools, tips, and tricks.
In this week’s episode, I will be talking about Draftback - an extension for Google Chrome. Draftback is one of those extensions that when I share it with someone it will usually collect a few oohs & aahs…people can’t quite believe the magic that is draftback.
So what is it? Draftback is a little extension that just works in the background of google docs and it lets you review the edits of a document like a movie! Once installed you will see a “draftback” button in the upper right of a google doc and it will show how many revisions have been made on the document. At any time (and with any document - past, present, or future docs that you or others create) you can click the draftback button and see a playback of a google doc. It shows the student’s typing along with the date and time (down to the second) of when the document was edited. Not only do you get the playback of the google doc, but there is an additional bonus of data when you click on the “document graphs and statistics” link in the document playback window. There you will find the total time spent on a document, an activity timeline, and the writing sessions by each collaborator.
Now that you have heard about this extension, why would you want to have this installed? Well, draftback is a quick and easy way to detect plagiarism. If a student only spends 25 seconds on a document yet has 8 pages of text, you know there is no way that was typed or spoken into a google doc. It is also good for the collaboration piece. If students are supposed to work together on a document, in the statistics report, it shows how much time each person spent editing/typing the document.
You could do a screencast of the playback of a document and share it with parents or administrators if you need to have evidence of student work OR lack of it.
Two final things to know about draftback…first, students do NOT need to have this extension installed for teachers to utilize it - only the teachers need it if they want to use it as a plagiarism detector or to get additional data about the work done on the document and second, this only works on google docs - it does not work on sheets or slides.
All in all, I think draftback is a great extension that can give you insights on how a document was created & edited.
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