Quizzes in Intertwined come with built-in protections that make the quickest shortcut, copying a question into an AI chatbot or a search engine, harder to take. Alongside them, the Integrity page shows you patterns in each student's quiz behavior that may be worth a conversation. This article explains what students experience during a quiz, what the protections can and can't catch, how each signal on the Integrity page is worked out, and how to use those signals fairly.
The short version: nothing here proves that a student cheated. The protections slow down the lazy path and record what they can see. The signals tell you who might be worth asking about their work. You're the one who knows your students, and the decision is always yours.
Available on: every plan, including Free. Signals about copying, leaving the page and screenshots show on every plan. Signals about pace (how fast a student finished compared with the class and with their own record) use student performance figures, which come with Intertwined Solo and school plans.
What students experience during a quiz
Students are told about the rules before they start. The quiz's start screen says that their time on each question is recorded for their teacher, and that the question hides if they switch tabs and trips away are recorded. During the quiz:
Copying is turned off. Students can still highlight text while they read, but copying, cutting or dragging the question text is blocked. The first time, a message titled "Copying is turned off here" explains that taking a graded question into an AI tool is academic dishonesty and that continued attempts will be reported to their teacher. Later attempts say "Copying is still turned off" and give the count.
Pasting into an answer box is turned off on activities with written answers, with a similar message.
The question hides when they leave. If the student switches to another tab or window, the question blurs behind a "Question hidden" notice that asks them to come back to the tab. Trips shorter than 3 seconds are ignored (a notification or a pop-up can steal focus for a moment). Trips of 3 seconds or more are recorded. After 10 seconds or more, the student also sees a message titled "You left the quiz" that says how long they were gone.
Screenshot keys are noticed where the browser can see them. When a student presses the Print Screen key on Windows, the page tries to clear the copied image and shows "That looked like a screenshot." Some Mac screenshot shortcuts are caught the same way, but not reliably.
A faint watermark with the student's name and the date is drawn over the question. It's too light to notice while reading, and it's there so a capture that does happen carries the student's name. A phone photo of the screen may not keep it.
Every message ends with "Stuck on this one? Go back to the lesson for this section, or ask your teacher for help." and a Back to the question button. The tone is firm but not accusatory, and students aren't locked out or penalized on their score. For the student's version of these rules, see Quiz rules: why copying and pasting is turned off.
What the protections can't do
It's important to be clear about the limits, so a quiet Integrity page isn't read as proof of an honest class, and a flag isn't read as proof of cheating.
They can't stop a photo. A student can photograph the screen with a phone, or read the question aloud to someone, and nothing on the page will know.
They can't block most screenshots. No website can. Mac screenshot shortcuts and the Windows snipping shortcut (Windows key + Shift + S) are handled by the computer before the page ever sees them. Screenshot counts are a minimum, never a total.
They can't see a second device, a classmate, notes, or a question retyped into another screen.
They leave the right-click menu working, because blocking it would also block the translation, dictionary and spell-check tools many students rely on.
Leaving the page isn't always a choice. School devices pop up messages, screens lock, and students with accommodations may use other tools. Short trips are filtered out, but not every innocent one.
Speed isn't evidence on its own. A student who already knew the material, or who studied hard, will finish fast and get everything right.
Opening the Integrity page
Open the Insights group in the sidebar and click Integrity.
The Academic Integrity page opens on the class you looked at most recently. Use the CLASS and COURSE menus at the top right to switch. Open in class takes you to the class's Students tab.
The page needs a class with students and an assigned course. You can also reach it from Open Integrity on any student's page.
The summary tiles
Students flagged: how many students have at least one signal you haven't marked as reviewed, out of the class. See who lists them.
Blocked copy attempts: the total number of times the class tried to copy, cut, drag or paste on a quiz and was stopped, with the student who had the most.
Signals to review: how many open signals there are, split into those about copying, pasting or leaving the page and those about pace. On the Free plan, the line underneath says pace signals come with student performance.
Students in class: how many students have nothing to review, and how many are flagged.
Under the tiles, a short note reminds you that these are signals, not conclusions.
The student list
Students with open signals are listed with the most signals first. Each row shows the student's name and a label for each signal. Click a row to see the evidence behind each one: the student's own number, what it's compared with, the section it came from and the date.
Inside a row you can also click Open this student's performance to see their full page, including every answer they gave on each quiz. If nobody has an open signal, you'll see "Nothing flagged in this class right now."
The Students tab in each classroom has a Flags column and an Integrity filter (Has integrity flags) that use the same signals.
What each signal means
Signals about behavior (every plan)
Blocked copy attempts: the number of times the student tried to copy, cut, drag or paste on a quiz and was stopped, with a breakdown such as "8 on quiz". This is the one signal that is always a deliberate action.
Pasted into a written answer: attempts to paste into an answer box on an activity with written answers. Written answers are meant to be in the student's own words.
Left the page mid-question: shown when a student left a quiz question 3 or more times, or for 2 minutes or more in total. It shows how many times and the total time away. While they're away, the question is hidden.
Screenshot attempt: screenshot key presses the browser could see. Because most screenshot methods can't be seen at all, read this as "at least this many."
These counts follow the student's account, so a student in two of your classes shows the same counts in both.
Signals about pace (Intertwined Solo and school plans)
These compare a student's quiz score and time with the class, or with their own record. They use the class's median (the middle value), not the average, so the very students being flagged can't drag the comparison toward themselves.
Fast and error-free: a quiz score of 95% or more in 40% or less of the class's median time on that quiz. Both are needed: fast alone is a quick reader, and accurate alone is a student who studied. It only appears once at least 5 students have finished that quiz, so there's a real middle to compare with.
Lesson skipped, quiz clean: under a minute on the section's lessons, then 95% or more on its quiz.
Out of step with their own record: a quiz score at least 30 points above the student's usual score, finished in 60% or less of their usual time. It needs at least 3 finished quizzes to know what "usual" is. This one is often fairer than comparing with the class, because a student who is strong all year will never trigger it.
Several sections in one sitting: the student finished the lessons of three sections within 20 minutes.
Because every wrong try lowers a quiz score, 95% means the student made almost no mistakes. See How quizzes and assessments work.
Marking a signal as reviewed
Open the student's row.
Next to a signal, click Reviewed. The signal is hidden and no longer counts toward Students flagged or Signals to review.
To see signals you've reviewed, click Show reviewed signals; click Restore on any of them to bring it back.
A reviewed signal comes back on its own if the student does it again after you reviewed it. For example, if you talk with a student about copy attempts and they try again next week, the signal returns with the new count.
Using signals fairly
A flag is a reason to look closer, not a finding. Some practices that help:
Read the evidence first. Open the row and look at the actual numbers. Three trips away totaling 40 seconds is very different from three trips totaling 12 minutes.
Check the student's page. Look at their answers, their quiz time and their scores over time. A strong student with a steady record reads differently from a sudden jump.
Think about context. Is the student using a translation tool? Do they have accommodations? Was there a fire drill, a device problem or a noisy room that day?
Ask, don't accuse. Talk privately. "Walk me through how you got this one" is a fair question that an honest student can answer, and it often settles things quickly.
Check understanding another way. A short verbal check or an in-class question on the same idea tells you more than any signal.
Follow your school's policy. If you do act, the signals and their dates are useful notes, but they shouldn't be the only evidence.
Common questions
Does Intertwined block ChatGPT or other AI tools?
No website can block other apps or devices. What the quiz does is block copying the question out, hide the question while the student is in another tab, and record what it can see. That makes the quick copy-and-paste route stop working.
Do students know they're being monitored?
Yes. The quiz's start screen tells them their time is recorded and that leaving the tab is recorded, and the warning messages say that repeated attempts are reported to their teacher. Students don't see the Integrity page or their signals.
Why are pace signals missing on my page?
On the Free plan, pace signals aren't shown, because they use student performance figures that come with Intertwined Solo and school plans. A note on the page explains this. Copy, leave-the-page and screenshot signals still show.
Can a student be flagged only for being fast?
A fast quiz on its own never flags. Fast and error-free needs both a score of 95% or more and a time well under the class's median, and it only appears once enough classmates have finished the quiz to compare. The one signal based on time alone is Several sections in one sitting, which looks at lessons finished in quick succession.
A student in two of my classes shows the same copy attempts in both. Why?
Copy, leave-the-page and screenshot counts belong to the student's account, not to one class, so they appear the same wherever the student is enrolled.
Do the protections affect a student's score?
No. Blocked attempts and trips away are recorded for you, but they don't change the quiz score.