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            Forget AI Cheating.
            Show Your Learning.

            Making AI cheating, and false positives, a thing of the past.

            Thanks to first-of-its-kind, patent-pending, privacy-first technology which can tell if a learner actually did the reading/ viewing/ listening — like a fitness tracker for knowledge; verifying and certifying learning journeys in real time, effortlessly.

            • Never worry about a false positive again
            • Improve your job prospects using your existing study time
            • Gain self‑organizing notes and insights
            • Keep using AI as much as you want and get better at it
            • No more unreliable AI cheating detection scores or percentages
            • (And no more lawsuits or ruining innocent students' lives)
            • Know if your students did the work, definitively
            • No more turning your curriculum upside down (save time)
            • Doesn’t require banning AI + improves critical thinking use
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            How it works

            Help us explain this efficiently:
            which are you?

            As easy as 1, 2, 3.

            1

            Effortlessly track and prove effort you put in

            The SYL browser extension uses patent‑pending technology to let you automatically track and verify the focus you give any article, PDF, or Youtube video, and your annotations, in a privacy‑first, effortless way that is then provable.

            Define how students can show their learning

            How many articles and/or PDFs/ and/or videos should they work through? Any specific ones? How many need to be annotated? Inject quiz questions? Should they use AI? How?

            2

            A single link for every assignment — or search all your learning any time

            Show off your commitment, or pre‑empt any accusations, by attaching a SYL link with every submission, or browse your automatically organized and searchable log.

            Students start proving their learning process effortlessly

            Requirements are saved in a short link. When students click it, they can get the SYL browser extension. This lets them verify and quantify their learning session safely and automatically, in a privacy‑first way they have total control and visibility over, for content you assigned (if any) as well as content they chose. It’s not just getting to the bottom of a page, or time on page, etc. — it’s dramatically harder to game than traditional systems, giving both sides meaningful proof.

            3

            Use it to boost your college admissions or job odds

            Turn all that data about your learning into impressive resume or application upgrades, or insights that reveal the patterns behind your learning and attention.

            Watch your dashboard summarize it all for you

            Making it easy to see every learner’s journey, at a glance or in‑depth, giving you total confidence in the learning behind, and credibility of, submissions.

            FAQ

            Existing “solutions” are barely solutions at all.
            1) Automated detection/ scoring systems, which analyze text submissions, not only do not work, but are legal liabilities. They are also rooted in accusation and mistrust, creating a terrible learning culture for students.
            2) You may have noticed some teachers and schools reverting to exclusively hand-written work, in-person oral examinations, and other such archaic approaches. This is sacrificing 30 years of progress acknowledging that students learn and perform in highly varied ways. It also gives spread-thin educators even more work, making them even less capable of giving you personalized support.


            3) Some digital solutions also try to emphasize the journey of learning, yet they require teachers to transplant and reinvent their entire class experience and move it to new platforms, giving everyone more work and new habits to learn.
            4) … and all of the above demonize or attempt to cut out the ordinary unfiltered use of the AI tools that everyone otherwise regularly uses and will assuredly continue to use. Banning them and pretending they don’t exist, or won’t be used as provided, is not a reasonable approach, bordering on negligent.

            Which is why Show Your Learning is better. It addresses all of the above weaknesses.
            1) Instead of relying on unreliable, opaque systems that continue to put all the weight on the final deliverable, SYL shifts the emphasis to the entire learning journey, proving whether a student actually put in the work of learning about the core subjects or not, and demonstrated attention to detail and comprehension along the way — all using existing syllabi or whatever sources the student might choose to use through their research, through their existing behaviour.
            2) What’s more, as we add the feature allowing you to define how a student should use AI as well, it even lets you gain visibility on how AI was used in the first place. For many educators, AI feels like an existential threat to the profession, undermining the process of learning. SYL defends that process, making the use of AI for an output far less consequential, but even making it far easier to associate processes, including those with AI, with results, in a verifiable way.
            3) All in a way that, instead of requiring exhausted teachers to put in even more work, allows them to stick to their current processes with virtually no change.
            If it’s through your own device, not at all. You can use it and simply inform your teacher you’re using it. We give you copy-paste language to make this easy for you (they’ll be impressed). The shareable shortlinks generated also include extra context for teachers who might be seeing SYL for the first time.

            If it’s on a school-provided device, you’ll almost certainly need permission to use SYL — but, don’t worry, we make it easy to get permission. Permission is required for two reasonable reasons:
            1) User’s registering to a service including by inputting their name and an email address usually requires approval.
            2) It requires students to install a browser extension, which also usually requires IT approval.

            To request permission, try to find the contact information of your school’s IT’s department, and ask a teacher to help you with this and to be your teacher advocate. We recommend using the following blurb, which includes supporting documentation to address all of IT’s concerns:

            Hello. I would like to use a solution in my classes that is a much more effective solution to managing use of AI by students. It is by a company that has already been recognized by Mozilla and others for being privacy-first and a “save the internet” champion, so I hope this can go through. The solution — ShowYourLearning — requires account creation by teachers and students, and installation of a browser extension by students. This is their executive summary about their privacy and data protection. Is there anything else you need to get this approved? As the semester is under way, timing is important. Thank you!
            No. It only tracks 1) when it is manually triggered by the user (see image below) 2) even then, only articles, YouTube videos, or PDFs 3) it shuts off if it detects any sensitive words and must be manually reactivated to track on such items 4) it also tracks their annotation through the built-in annotation tool, and any questions they answer if you have set that as a requirement.



            The user can always see when it is tracking, and if they have navigated to content that appears to be unrelated to the assignment (based on our auto-detection), a warning appears reminding them to consider pausing tracking when not focused on the assignment.

            For every assignment they can see what was tracked, and their attached activity (annotations, questions answered) and choose to omit irrelevant items, or add context notes.

            Users will soon be able to also track podcast episodes and physical books via the optional Readocracy mobile app (the platform and movement SYL is built on top of).
            Several things. Our team is proud of being behind the most humane, user-empowering solution on the market, already reflected in our recognition as “Save the Internet pioneers” by both Mozilla and Betalab.

            1) Compared to using standard user proctoring or monitoring tools, SYL is tracking only exactly what it needs to track, in a way that is dictated by the user. The opposite of the typically oppressive blunt surveillance approach.
            2) Compared to other browser extensions, which often operate in a way where it is unclear when they are active or what they’re doing, SYL’s extension’s processes are always visible and controllable to the user. What’s more, the user can see what was saved in their account and delete their account and data at any time, easily.
            3) Compared to other tools and platforms, including Edtech, our overall approach is rooted in absolute, non-negotiable agency and respect for the users, their data, and their wellbeing, as reflected in our privacy and data security overview.
            Sorry, that's secret sauce! Just kidding. Sort of. The SYL extension is powered by Readocracy’s patent-pending attention verification technology, which is tracking your speed, depth, but also your unique patterns of behaviour, and how they line up with each unique content item, which we analyze with a machine learning-based system. It has been verified as industry-leading and unique by world class researchers in the content analytics field. The result is particularly effective: if you just leave a page open, or quickly scroll to the bottom, or aimlessly scroll around, you'll at most trigger a small fraction of the credits you should have earned on the content. It's the closest you'll get to camera-based attention detection, without using the camera, and while maintaining far more privacy and transparency. Which is all to say it makes other easily gamed verification systems look rightfully outdated in comparison.
            Great to hear! Here’s the most effective path: find the most influential staff member at your school that you’re on good terms with, and explain to them what SYL is and why you want to bring it to your school. You can use this blurb as inspiration:

            Hi Mx. [NAME], I’ve been using a tool called Show Your Learning and I really think our school should bring it on for all teachers and students. It helps both sides solve AI cheating concerns in a really lightweight way that also gives learners more confidence, recognition, and motivation to learn — and from what I see I think it saves teachers time, too. I also like that the company making it is extremely privacy-first and mission-driven. This is their website, and this is a 1 pager for teachers and admin. Do you think you can help me with this? The platform provides us with everything we need to get IT’s approval, too. Thank you for your consideration!
            Did you know the average person spends about 13 hours a day with media? It’s largely driven by about 8 hours on your phone. All this time represents data that trillion dollar platforms are getting rich off of, and also using against you. That’s value and power you can take back. In three ways:

            1) Over the course of your life that’s about 35 college degrees-worth of study time. Even if we counted the average time people only spent on “news”, it’s still around 4 college degrees-worth. You probably have almost nothing to show for it — not just for your general passions (colleges and employers love well-rounded people), but for all the content by world-class experts you can learn through on YouTube, newsletters, and more. Why shouldn’t it count? Why can’t you show it? Why can’t it upgrade your resume or applications in a credible way? It should. Now it can. Especially if you upgrade to Readocracy for full features helping you do this (free upgrade).

            2) All that data is being used against you every day, to tweak your emotions, to keep you on the feed longer, to sell to you better. Why do they get the data to understand you better than you know yourself? It’s an asymmetry of power. With Readocracy, the platform behind SYL, you get the date, to start understanding the patterns and influences behind how you spend your time. We’re taught to obsess about now we feed our mind so we don’t get physically sick — why not how we feed our minds? Getting the data behind your consumption is taking the power back that informs your attention and your mind.

            3) AI companies are running out of training data, and are paying premiums to experts and passionate people for their knowledge data. With legal pressure mounting, having your knowledge data tracked and verified is becoming a wise financial decision. What’s more, the best AI tools truly become valuable when they can safely leverage your knowledge graph: you can’t do that if it’s not tracked and organized. If the future runs through AI, making sure you control your knowledge data is also the future of controlling your wealth and power.
            Yes. In many ways it is a perfect antitode to the one-size-fits-all system of traditional education. 1) It gives students far more flexibility in how they learn, choosing the media sources and types, and enabling emphasis on the journey, instead of all the weight being on the final output. 2) The tracking and verification works across multiple modalities, including supporting screen readers.
            SYL is intended for students 13 years and older, both because it lets us, and you, skip extra regulatory friction, and because our companion platform, Readocracy, is also designed for late middle schoolers to high schoolers and beyond. That said, if you strongly feel you’d like to use it despite being younger than 13 years of age, please contact us.
            Existing “solutions” are barely solutions at all.
            1) Automated detection/ scoring systems, which analyze text submissions, not only do not work, but are legal liabilities. They are also rooted in accusation and mistrust.
            2) Reverting to exclusively hand-written work, in-person oral examinations, and other such archaic approaches, is sacrificing 30 years of progress acknowledging that students learn and perform in highly varied ways. It also gives spread-thin educators even more work.


            3) Some digital solutions also try to emphasize the journey, yet they require you to transplant and reinvent your entire class experience on their platforms to do so.
            4) … and all of the above demonize or attempt to cut out the ordinary unfiltered use of the AI tools that both students and educators otherwise regularly use and will assuredly continue to use. Banning them and pretending they don’t exist, or won’t be used as provided, is not a reasonable approach, bordering on negligent.

            Which is why Show Your Learning is better. It addresses all of the above weaknesses.
            1) Instead of relying on unreliable, opaque systems that continue to put all the weight on the final deliverable, SYL shifts the emphasis to the entire learning journey, proving whether a student actually put in the work of learning about the core subjects or not, and demonstrated attention to detail and comprehension along the way — all using existing syllabi or whatever sources the student might choose to use through their research, through their existing behaviour.
            2) What’s more, as we add the feature allowing you to define how a student should use AI as well, it even lets you gain visibility on how AI was used in the first place. For many educators, AI feels like an existential threat to the profession, undermining the process of learning. SYL defends that process, making the use of AI for an output far less consequential, but even making it far easier to associate processes, including those with AI, with results, in a verifiable way.
            3) All in a way that, instead of requiring exhausted teachers to put in even more work, allows them to stick to their current processes with virtually no change.
            Assuming students are using school-provided devices, then almost certainly yes — but, don’t worry, we make it easy to get permission. Permission is required for two reasonable reasons:
            1) User’s registering to a service including by inputting their name and an email address.
            2) It requires students to install a browser extension.

            To request IT’s support, we recommend using the following blurb, which includes supporting documentation:

            Hello. I would like to use a solution in my classes that is a much more effective solution to the problem of AI cheating. It is by a company that has already been recognized by Mozilla and others for being privacy-first and a “save the internet” champion, so I hope this can go through. The solution — ShowYourLearning — requires account creation by teachers and students, and installation of a browser extension by students. This is their executive summary about their privacy and data protection. Is there anything else you need to get this approved? As the semester is under way, timing is important. Thank you!
            Yes. In many ways it is a perfect antidote to the one-size-fits-all system of traditional education. 1) It gives students far more flexibility in how they learn, choosing the media sources and types, and enabling emphasis on the journey, instead of all the weight being on the final output. 2) The tracking and verification works across multiple modalities, including supporting screen readers.
            SYL is intended for students 13 years and older, both because it lets us, and you, skip extra regulatory friction, and because our companion platform, Readocracy, is also designed for late middle schoolers to high schoolers and beyond. That said, if you strongly feel you’d like to use it with younger students, please contact us.
            Yes! We are the only platform for education that scans as many disinformation and polarization databases, and will soon also have our own machine learning-based system for detecting emotional manipulation, regardless of political valence. If the content or source the user is on is flagged in our system, they will get a warning, inviting them to go find out why. Questionable sources are also flagged for you in your dashboard where you can see every student’s verified learning journey.
            No. It only tracks 1) when it is manually triggered by the user (see image below) 2) even then, only articles, YouTube videos, or PDFs 3) it shuts off if it detects any sensitive words and must be manually reactivated to track on such items 4) it also tracks their annotation through the built-in annotation tool, and any questions they answer if you have set that as a requirement.

            The user can always see when it is tracking, and if they have navigated to content that appears to be unrelated to the assignment (based on our auto-detection), a warning appears reminding them to consider pausing tracking when not focused on the assignment.

            For every assignment they can see what was tracked, and their attached activity (annotations, questions answered) and choose to omit irrelevant items, or add context notes.

            Users will soon be able to also track podcasts episodes and physical books via the optional Readocracy mobile app (the platform and movement SYL is built on top of).
            Several things. Our team is proud of being behind the most humane, user-empowering solution on the market, already reflected in our recognition as “Save the Internet pioneers” by both Mozilla and Betalab.

            1) Compared to using standard user proctoring or monitoring tools, SYL is tracking only exactly what it needs to track, in a way that is dictated by the user. The opposite of the typically oppressive blunt surveillance approach.
            2) Compared to other browser extensions, which often operate in a way where it is unclear when they are active or what they’re doing, SYL’s extension’s processes are always visible and controllable to the user. What’s more, the user can see what was saved in their account and delete their account and data at any time, easily.
            3) Compared to other tools and platforms, including Edtech, our overall approach is rooted in absolute, non-negotiable agency and respect for the users, their data, and their wellbeing, as reflected in our privacy and data security overview.
            Sorry, that's secret sauce! Just kidding. Sort of. The SYL extension is powered by Readocracy’s patent-pending attention verification technology, which is tracking your speed, depth, but also your unique patterns of behaviour, and how they line up with each unique content item, which we analyze with a machine learning-based system. It has been verified as industry-leading and unique by world class researchers in the content analytics field. The result is particularly effective: if you just leave a page open, or quickly scroll to the bottom, or aimlessly scroll around, you'll at most trigger a small fraction of the credits you should have earned on the content. It's the closest you'll get to camera-based attention detection, without using the camera, and while maintaining far more privacy and transparency. Which is all to say it makes other easily gamed verification systems look rightfully outdated in comparison.
            Contact us with the form on this page. We’ll answer your questions and equip you as best as we can to succeed in bringing this to your school or district.
            Not yet, but the entire purpose of the shortlink generated with every assignment is to easily attach it in your LMS. Integrations with the top LMS providers is in our roadmap.

            About Us/ A different kind of tech company

            ShowYourLearning is brought to you by the team behind Readocracy. We are fiercely committed to bringing about a healthier, fairer, smarter world where being well-informed actually matters, and technology is used for good. This is reflected in our Guiding Principles, our Vision for the world, our Manifesto, and the fact we have been recognized as Fix The Internet pioneers by both Mozilla (3 winners from over 1,600 candidates) and Betalab (3 startups from over 400, from the first investors in Twitter, Medium, Instapaper, and more).

            Our advisors include IBM’s former head of AI and one of the world’s leading voices on ethical A.I., Linkedin North America’s former head of Workforce Development and Skills, the White House’s former Deputy National Cyber Director for Tech Ecosystem, the Research lead of Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered AI, and others like them.

            And we have the development chops to back it all up. We have over 2 decades of experience in founding and operating secure, high traffic systems, including one of Canada’s first social networks for students, and other client projects supporting over 1 billion interactions, and storing such sensitive data as social insurance numbers.

            Technology can change the world. Whether it’s for the better, or worse, will come down to who chooses to fight for what’s right. Our “why” is rooted entirely in knowing exactly where we stand on this issue, and fighting for it.