HARVEST KERNEL / FREE WORKING SESSION

The Authorship Trail

Forty minutes, by hand. You finish holding one rebuilt assignment prompt, three process checkpoints, and the authorship line your students will actually submit. Not advice about academic integrity. The document you hand out.

How to use this. Pick one assignment. Only one, and preferably one you are collecting inside the next month. Work top to bottom and type into every box. Nothing is saved to a server, so use Copy Everything at the end and paste the result into your course file before you close the tab.

PHASE 1 / SEED

Name what the assignment currently proves

Detection asks whether a machine touched the work. This asks a better question first: if the work were perfect, what would you actually know?

1. Name one assignment you will collect this term. Course, title, and roughly when it is due.

2. In one sentence, what must a student be able to do to earn full marks on it?

3. If a student handed you a flawless version tomorrow, what would you genuinely know about what they learned?

PHASE 2 / SPROUT

Write the three checkpoints

Three short asks, spread across the work. Write them as the exact words students will read, not as notes to yourself.

4. THE DECISION, due before any writing. Write the exact prompt asking for the choice they made and the option they rejected.

5. THE TURN, due at the midpoint. Write the exact prompt asking what they now think is wrong with their own first version.

6. THE DECLARATION, submitted with the work. Write the exact wording of the tool line, the way you would ask for a citation.

PHASE 3 / GROW

Break it before your students do

A checkpoint a model can answer is not a checkpoint. Test it now, while it costs you nothing.

7. Open any AI tool, paste your answer to question 4, and run it. Paste what came back.

8. Which part of your checkpoint did it answer convincingly? Rewrite that part so it asks for something only your student has.

9. A student’s three checkpoints are strong and the final work is clearly not theirs. Write the sentence you will actually say to them.

10. A student declares heavy AI use and the work is genuinely good. Write that sentence too.

PHASE 4 / HARVEST

Write the clause and keep the reasoning

Questions 11 and 12 are the two that survive the term. Everything above them is scaffolding.

11. Write the two sentence AI clause for this one assignment. Put today’s date inside it.

12. What did you change your mind about while doing this?

13. Name the next assignment this belongs on, and the week you will do it.

The manual version works. It does not scale past one assignment.

The Assessment Builder in the Harvest Kernel Faculty Toolkit runs this pass on every assignment you teach, keeps the checkpoints and the declaration consistent across sections, and carries questions 11 and 12 forward as a Course Record so next term starts from your reasoning instead of a blank page.

Open the Assessment Builder in the Faculty Toolkit

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