Rumi is a writing tool which makes the writing process visible. Integrated into Canvas, it deters AI misuse by encouraging students to write in their own voice and do their own thinking. It will try and detect when students are not creating their own writing, and collects evidence you can use to determine if the student is following your AI use policy.
Rumi does this by:
- Recording the students writing so that you can evaluate their process. When students create their own work, it looks very different from when they transcribe from AI or elsewhere.
- Preventing students from copying and pasting from other sources without attribution. Whenever a student pastes text into the assignment, Rumi asks for a justification of where the text came from. You can evaluate if this is a quote, draft, or chunk of text taken from AI.
- Evaluating the student’s writing behavior. Rumi has a number of metrics that help you see, at a high level, which submissions need to be evaluated for unethical AI use.
- Allowing students to use AI tools that you have approved and to records those interactions for you to review.
Rumi User Guides by Tufts ETS
Rumi Website
Rumi from the Student’s Perspective
For consultation and support email: edtech@tufts.edu
