Grammarly for Education
Tarleton State University is proud to offer full access to Grammarly for Education for all students and faculty. Grammarly is an AI-powered tool for writing and editing that assists with grammar, spelling, tone, word choice, and originality.
About Grammarly for Education
Grammarly for Education is a campus-wide writing support tool trusted by more than 3,000 institutions worldwide. It is designed to support academic success by helping students produce clearer, stronger, more confident writing – and by giving faculty time back from routine tasks like reviewing drafts and responding to emails.
Grammarly works across more than one million apps and websites, including Canvas, Blackboard, Moodle, Google Docs, Microsoft Word, Gmail, and Outlook, so you get consistent support wherever your work happens.
Key features include:
- Real-time grammar, spelling, and punctuation suggestions
- Tone detection and word choice recommendations
- Plagiarism checking and originality feedback
- AI-assisted brainstorming and outlining tools
- Grammarly Authorship – giving instructors a transparent view of how student documents were written
- Multilingual writing support in English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, and Italian
Access Grammarly
Creating your Grammarly account:
- Click on the activation link above to register for your account, or copy and paste the link below into your browser. https://sso.grammarly.com/saml/login?ssoId=2feaa25a-6557-41e2-ab7d-ecea9879702a
- Enter your Tarleton State University student or faculty email address in the “username” box.
- Complete the authentication process.
- After registering your account, Grammarly will ask questions about your role, writing goals, and the applications you use most to best help you customize your profile.
- Download the Grammarly desktop application most relevant to you (Windows or Mac) so that Grammarly can be used across all your other applications.
- You can download the Grammarly browser extension for quick access.
NOTE: For registration assistance or issues logging in, please contact ceeconsultants@tarleton.edu.
Grammarly in Canvas
Students have the option to use Grammarly in Canvas to check their documents; it is not required. Note: If a student chooses to use Grammarly before submitting their assignments, instructors will be able to see.
It can be confusing when students first see the Grammarly option. It is an option to upload their assignment.
1. Students can choose to start the assignment or upload it to Grammarly for a check.
2. If they choose to upload to Grammarly, they will receive a report. Note: The instructor will also be able to see the report.
Grammarly Authorship
Overview
Grammarly Authorship is designed to foster more transparency between students and faculty in the writing process. Grammarly believes that institutional awareness and support will be critical in ensuring Authorship is used as a valuable instructional tool. This feature helps administrators and faculty understand students’ writing processes and addresses questions about how the feature works.
How do students turn on Grammarly authorship tracking?
Students have three options for enabling tracking:
Option 1: Single Document Tracking
Students can click the “Track writing activity” button to turn on Authorship tracking for that single document session, or they can take no action, in which case nothing is tracked.
Option 2: Automatic Tracking
Students can select the “Turn on automatic tracking” option by clicking the settings cog in the upper right of the Authorship widget menu. This will start tracking automatically when a new Microsoft Word document or Google Doc is opened, making it easy to generate reports that categorize text sources.
Option 3: Manual Tracking per Document
If users only enable tracking for the current document, they will need to turn it on individually from the “thumbprint” icon at the bottom-left of the document each time.
Pro Tip: Always check that tracking is enabled before you start writing to capture your complete writing process.
How does Grammarly know where the text comes from?
To use Grammarly’s Authorship feature, it needs access to your clipboard to differentiate between different sources of text.
This access helps Grammarly distinguish between text from general AI sources, such as ChatGPT or Claude, and text from traditional online sources, such as Wikipedia.
Without clipboard access, it can still document typing actions and actions taken within the document, but it will not be able to attribute pasted text in more detail beyond “copied from an unknown source.”
How do students know that Grammarly Authorship is recording activity in a document?
Students are always in control of whether Grammarly Authorship records their writing activity. When activity is being tracked, students will see a “Stop tracking” button that allows them to stop tracking at any time.
How do students view their Authorship report?
When a student is ready to view their report, they can click the thumbprint icon at the bottom-left of their screen and click “see report.”
There are three different sets of information available:
1. Authorship Analytics
This shows a breakdown of text sources, organized into “human-typed” and “sourced” categories, along with data on the time spent on the document and the number of active writing sessions.
2. Authorship Report
This includes the full body of text, color-coded by text category, along with details about the text source.
3. Authorship Replay
This shows full typing and editing history from start to finish. The replay is meant to help the student remember primary actions as the document came to life.
How do students share their Authorship report with faculty?
At the top of the report, there is a green “Share” button. Students will see a unique URL they can copy and share with faculty members.
Faculty will be able to see the same information the student sees in the report.
Important Note: Submitting a document link requires the document to be shared with “anyone with the link.”
What content is attributed in Authorship reports?
Any text from a browser-based source where Grammarly is available will be attributed. Text from a generative AI tool, academic article, periodical, and more all qualify.
What happens if a student pastes content from an application that Grammarly Authorship can’t access?
If a student pastes content into their document from a desktop source or an incognito window, Grammarly will categorize that text as “copied from an unknown source.”
What data does Grammarly Authorship collect on students?
To provide a record of editing history, Grammarly Authorship collects the following information:
- The text written in the context of a document
- Text pasted from websites like Wikipedia and ChatGPT
- Prompts used to generate output from ChatGPT or Grammarly
Grammarly does not collect or store any data that is not pertinent to the writing process.
The student will not be tracked on browsing history or web traffic unrelated to text input via the clipboard.
Where is Grammarly Authorship data stored?
While Writing
Grammarly Authorship stores data on the student’s device and encrypts it using GCM encryption algorithm.
When Clicking “See Report”
The document data is sent to Grammarly servers for processing, where it remains for up to 24 hours.
When Sharing a Report
The data is sent to Grammarly servers and stored for 12 months.
What Authorship data is shared when generating and sending a report link?
When sharing a report, the reader can see all the same information as the author, including:
- Top-level document analytics
- The full text color-coded by source
- Text insight cards
- A full replay of the typing and editing process (optional)
What the Replay Feature Includes
The replay feature includes the ability to see:
- Text being written and deleted
- The names of websites where text is copied from
- Prompts to generative AI such as ChatGPT
Student Control Over Shared Information
Students can preview the data available to their instructor by choosing “See report” and replaying the writing activity.
They can also exclude the replay in the report when sharing, if they don’t want their audience to see their entire writing and editing process.
How do I access support?
For additional questions or technical support regarding Grammarly for Education or Grammarly Authorship, please contact CEEconsultants@tarleton.edu.