What happens to your work

Last updated: September 2026 · Read the full privacy notice

This site was built by your instructor to replace a publisher's access code, so the money side is simple: nobody is selling anything, and there is no company behind it. That also means there is no marketing department to hide behind, so this page tells you exactly what happens to what you write. If you want the complete legal version instead, it's linked above and nothing here contradicts it.

Start with the part you probably care about

Yes, a language model reads your written answers. Every one of them, at some point. There is no setting that turns this off, because automated feedback is how the site can respond to a practice answer in seconds instead of in a week.

If you have a concern about how the site works, tell your instructor early in the semester. Your instructor will discuss it with you individually. Raising a concern won't be held against you.

What the grader actually sees

When you submit an answer, what leaves this server is: the question, the grading rubric, and the text you wrote. Your name, student ID, and email address stay in the site's database. The grading service receives none of them.

Every outside service, and what each one gets

• OpenAI, Anthropic, Together.ai, DeepInfra: automated feedback and grading. They receive your answer text and the rubric. No identifying information. None of them train their models on what is sent through their APIs, and your text is either never written to disk at all or held for a short fixed window and then deleted.
• Pangram: AI-writing detection. Receives your answer text. No identifying information. (In batch runs, an internal database row number travels with the text; it's a number that means nothing without this site's database.) Pangram is a classifier, not a writing model: it reads text and hands back a number for how AI-written it looks. It cannot write anything, so it cannot reproduce your sentences or put them in front of anyone else. Their published policy says their detector is built on their own dataset that "doesn't include user submitted content," and you can read it yourself at pangram.com/data-privacy.
• Mailgun: sends verification codes. Receives your email address, and nothing you've written.
• Cloudinary: stores images you choose to attach to a message, so your instructor can see them.
• Render (hosting) and Sentry (error tracking) keep the site running. Technical logs may briefly include your account identifier when something breaks.

Only the services listed here receive your data.

The part most sites wouldn't tell you

Your writing does help improve the AI-detection system on this site. It is not sent to an outside company to train their models. Your instructor uses the writing submitted here to make the detection fairer and more accurate for future students.

We're telling you this because it's true and because you'd have a right to be annoyed if you found it in the footnotes. It stays inside this site, it's used to improve this course, and no outside company receives it for that purpose.

A human decides your grade

On practice work, the automated grade stands. The point is feedback in seconds, and you can try again. How much practice counts toward your grade is set per course, from about a point of participation in some classes to a large share of the grade in others, so check your Grades page rather than assuming it is small.

On quizzes, a model does a first pass against a rubric your instructor wrote, and your instructor reviews the scores and feedback before they are released. Midterms and finals are graded by your instructor.

If a result ever looks wrong, say so. A human will look at it.

What the site records while you write

While you type an answer, the site records how much you type versus paste, your general pace and pauses, and how long you spend with the material. It measures broad style patterns in your finished writing, like sentence length and vocabulary range, sometimes comparing a new answer with your own earlier work.

The site keeps counts and timings, plus the answer you submit. It does not keep a record of which keys you press.

This exists to protect you. If an AI-detection result is ever disputed, the record showing that you typed an answer steadily, in your own established style, is usually the clearest evidence that the work is yours. These signals inform a human review. On their own they don't change a grade and don't accuse anyone of anything.

Drafts stay on your device

As you type, a copy is saved in your own browser so a page reload doesn't cost you your work. That draft never leaves your device until you press submit.

What you can ask for

• See it. Your work, grades, and progress are visible in your account at any time.
• Delete it. After your course ends, you can ask your instructor to permanently delete your account and course data, including submissions, grades, progress, writing-process data, messages, and attachments. This is built into the site, not a manual favor.
• Raise a concern. If something on this page doesn't sit right with you, say so to your instructor. It's handled case by case.

Deleting your data here doesn't change official records your college keeps separately, such as Canvas.

How long it's kept

Your coursework and progress are kept through the end of your course and for one term afterward, so grades can be recalculated and any question or appeal can be answered. After that it's disposed of. You can ask for deletion sooner once your course has ended.

What never happens

Your data is not sold or used for advertising. Only the services listed above receive it.

Questions

Ask your instructor directly about anything on this page.

For formal questions about access to or correction of your education records, or a privacy complaint, your college's Admissions & Records office is the official channel, and it's independent of your instructor. At CCSF that's the Dean of Admissions & Records: admit@ccsf.edu, (415) 239-3291. See also CCSF's FERPA and privacy rights page. The U.S. Department of Education explains your rights under FERPA generally.

The full privacy notice covers the same ground in more formal language. If the two ever disagree, please report it.