Features suggestions for AppLab to make it AI Resistant

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ChatGPT is capable of giving code.org app lab JavaScript subset answers, and students are sure to use it to solve the problems. While preventing use of AI is impossible, I have a couple of feature suggestions:

  • A checkbox to disable the text view. That is, give teachers a way to only allow block coding in the AppLab editor. This would slow down the ability to just copy paste from LLMs.
  • Version history that shows when something is pasted. CodeHS has a great feature where it will show the code history, and specifically when something is pasted. This is a strategy used by English teachers with Google docs to slow down a quick copy paste from AI.

I know neither of these will prevent AI use, but it’s nice to slow it down a bit.

Thanks!

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Thanks for the suggestions, @jwoodward1!

I’d recommend submitting them here so the appropriate folks see them. The engineers do not monitor this forum.

Thank you!
–Michael K.