From the Daily Pennsylvanian: As generative artificial intelligence threatens to compromise the academic integrity of take-home writing assignments, some Penn professors are finding new ways to keep up with ever-changing demands in teaching. Rumi is a writing platform that enables instructors “to set guardrails around student AI use and provide students a way to make their writing and thinking process visible.” This semester, 17 instructors teaching nearly 20 classes across Penn’s four undergraduate schools piloted the program, according to Executive Director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning, and Innovation Bruce Lenthall. The workspace, which offers similar functions to Google Docs, gives instructors greater access to student writing and revision history. Though not an AI detection service, students can collaborate on documents, peer review work, and post on discussion boards through the software. Various AI models — such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude — can be integrated with the program at an instructor’s discretion.
At Penn, new technology can be adopted on a school-specific or University-wide basis, according to Lenthall. Because many professors identified a need for increased student transparency on take-home assignments, Lenthall said Rumi was offered as a “cross-school pilot.” ...“We have a lot of instructors on campus that think their students learn an incredible amount from take-home assignments,” Lenthall said in an interview. “In this moment of AI, those kinds of assignments are really stressed.” Lenthall outlined various ways instructors have responded to student AI use, including “by pushing more assignments into the classroom,” and “by creating other kinds of mechanisms to ensure that students are doing their own work.”
“Rumi is a technology that is designed to support those kinds of out-of-class assignments,” he said...
Full story at https://www.thedp.com/article/2026/11/penn-rumi-artifical-intelligence-academic-dishonesty-prevention.
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