Grammarly Authorship Is Now Available in Blackboard (opens in new tab)

Grammarly Authorship aims to make student writing transparent as AI becomes common in education. It tracks whether text was typed by a student, generated by AI, copied, or rephrased, allowing students to demonstrate their process and instructors to evaluate work with more confidence. Its new Blackboard integration brings these reports directly into assignment workflows, building on integrations with Google Docs, Microsoft Word, Word Online, Grammarly Docs, and Canvas.

The Purpose of Grammarly Authorship

• Authorship addresses concerns shared by instructors and students:
  • Instructors need confidence that submitted work is authentic.
  • Students need credit for their own contributions and protection from false accusations.
• It emphasizes transparency and attribution rather than relying solely on AI detection.
• Students retain control over viewing and sharing their writing-process data, while reports cannot be altered before submission.
• The system recognizes:
  • Human-typed text
  • AI-generated content pasted into a document
  • AI-generated content created within a document
  • Copied text
  • Text rewritten with Grammarly’s generative AI

Adoption and Reported Results

• Authorship launched in Google Docs beta in October 2024 and later expanded to Grammarly Docs, Microsoft Word, and Word Online.
• Students have created more than 5 million Authorship reports.
• Rowan-Cabarrus Community College reported a reduction in academic-integrity violations from 27 to 1 semester-over-semester after adopting Authorship across its English department.

Blackboard Integration Workflow

• Instructors enable Enable Grammarly Authorship in the Originality Report section when creating a Blackboard assignment.
• Students continue writing in their preferred tools and activate Authorship tracking.
• Authorship automatically records the sources and origins of text.
• Students generate a shareable report link and set its access to Anyone with the link.
• They submit the link alongside their assignment through Blackboard’s normal submission process.
• Instructors receive a class-level overview and can inspect an individual student’s full writing-process replay when necessary.
• This allows instructors to focus attention on unusual cases instead of manually investigating every submission.

Benefits for Students, Instructors, and Institutions

• Students
  • Can demonstrate their writing process with minimal additional effort.
  • Receive recognition for their own thinking, whether or not they used AI.
  • Build responsible AI-literacy and source-attribution habits.
• Instructors
  • Can require Authorship reports at the assignment level.
  • Review reports from a centralized Blackboard view.
  • Spend less time investigating and more time using writing-process evidence for instruction.
• Institutions
  • Gain a scalable academic-integrity approach across departments.
  • Use existing writing and learning-management tools rather than requiring major workflow changes.
  • Establish a consistent institutional response to AI use.

Grammarly Authorship’s Blackboard integration is available to Grammarly for Education customers with institution-wide plans that use Blackboard. It offers a practical way to make AI-era writing more accountable by combining student consent, process evidence, and existing assignment workflows.