For teachers on The Homework Site

Detecting AI in Homework, Honestly: What a Flag Is Worth (2026)

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400

Sooner or later a submission lands on your desk that doesn’t sit right, and the temptation is to reach for a detector and let it decide. Please don’t let it. Detectors are wrong often enough — and wrong in a biased way — that a score can turn a hunch into an injustice. Here’s how to handle suspicion fairly, in a way that survives a parent meeting and doesn’t burn a student who didn’t do anything.

Rubrics for the AI Era: Reward Thinking, Not Fluent Prose (2026)

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400

Here’s an uncomfortable thing to notice about your current rubric: if a large share of the marks go to grammar, organization, and fluent expression, then a student with a good prompt can now score well without thinking at all. AI made those surface qualities free. A rubric that still rewards them heavily isn’t measuring the student anymore — it’s measuring the tool. The fix isn’t to lower standards; it’s to point them at what was always the real target.

How to Write a Classroom AI Policy (2026) — With Examples

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400

Most classroom AI policies fail for the same reason: they’re vague. “Use AI ethically and responsibly” tells a stressed sixteen-year-old nothing about whether they can use ChatGPT on tonight’s essay. A policy that works is specific, explained, and — ideally — built with students rather than dropped on them. Here’s how to write one.

Designing AI-Proof Assignments: 9 Moves That Actually Work (2026)

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400

The instinct after ChatGPT arrived was to find the tool that catches it. Three years of evidence say that tool doesn’t exist — detectors are wrong too often, and the students they wrongly flag are the ones least able to defend themselves. The approach that actually holds up is older and less satisfying: change what you ask for. Here are nine moves, ranked by what they cost you.

Using AI to Give Students Feedback (Without Losing the Point), 2026

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400

Most of this site is about the ways AI costs teachers — detection that doesn’t work, assignments to redesign, rubrics to rethink. This page is the exception: the one place AI reliably hands time back. Feedback is repetitive, time-consuming, and partly automatable — and if you use it well, AI can take the routine layer off your plate so you can spend your hours on the feedback that actually changes a student.