Evidence & Integrity
A finished document shows what was submitted. It doesn't necessarily show how it was produced.
StetPro keeps a record from the work itself, including what the student said and the formatted version made from it. This gives authorised reviewers evidence from the writing process, rather than only the finished document.
What StetPro records
These records are created in the order a student works, and each one stays attached to the item it came from.
The original recording
The audio of what the student said, where a recording was stored. It is held in private storage and opened through a time-limited link, only for people whose permissions allow it.
The raw transcript
The transcript produced while the student was speaking, kept as it was captured. Students do not edit it. If something needs correcting, they add a separate clarification.
The formatted version
A readable copy made from the raw transcript. It is stored alongside the raw transcript rather than replacing it, so the two can be read side by side.
Student clarifications
A note the student can attach to the work. It is labelled as added after recording, with the name of the student who added it and the time it was last saved.
Further recorded sections
Once work is finalised, new material is added as a further recorded section attached to the original item, each with its own raw transcript and formatted version.
Finalisation and locking
When a student finalises a piece of work, the raw and formatted copies are locked and can no longer be edited. The time of finalisation is stored with the item.
Audit entries
StetPro records events such as recording or adding a section, finalising an item, adding or changing a clarification, archiving or deleting an item, an educator exporting or copying a transcript, an educator playing the audio, and an educator archiving or restoring work.
Finalised work is locked against editing, while students keep control over deleting their own work. A student can view and export their work. Deleting an item removes its transcripts, any clarification and any further recorded sections, and the recording is no longer reachable through StetPro. The audit log keeps a record that the item was deleted, with its title rather than its content.
What an authorised educator can review
An educator account starts with no access to student work. An administrator at the institution turns review access on for a particular educator and chooses which students that educator supports. Until that happens, the educator's list is empty.
Where review access has been enabled, the educator sees work from the students assigned to them within their own organisation, and only items the student has finalised. Work in progress does not appear. For those items the educator can read the raw transcript and the formatted version together, read any clarification the student attached, and see when the work was finalised.
Listening to the recording is a separate permission. An administrator can enable review access without enabling audio, in which case the educator can read the transcripts but the audio option stays unavailable. Where audio access is enabled and a recording was stored, the educator can play it through a time-limited link.
Where an educator takes a transcript out of StetPro by exporting or copying it, plays a recording, or archives or restores an item, that action is recorded in the audit log. Simply opening a piece of work to read it on screen is not recorded. Administrators manage permissions and assignments; the administrator screens do not show transcript text or play audio.
What formatting does
Formatting has a defined and limited role in StetPro. It makes the student's spoken material readable. It is not there to write for them.
Formatting changes presentation, not the student's substantive wording. The formatting step may add punctuation and capitalisation, set sentence boundaries, break the text into paragraphs where the speaker changes topic, remove a small defined set of spoken fillers ("um", "er", "uh", "erm", "ah", "mm") along with immediate repetitions and false starts where the speaker corrected themselves, turn dictated punctuation instructions such as "full stop" into the punctuation mark, apply the student's own vocabulary list, and apply a fixed set of US to UK spellings.
It does not rewrite sentences, correct grammar by replacing words, paraphrase, improve wording or substitute more academic vocabulary. The words that carry the student's meaning are the words they spoke.
The instructions given to the model also set out what it must not do: no new facts, claims, examples, statistics, sources, names, dates, numbers or conclusions; no removal of a material idea or qualification; no change to the strength or emphasis of a statement; no added commentary or summary; and no expansion of a short transcript into a longer piece of writing.
The formatted version is checked against the original, and the raw transcript remains available for comparison. Each formatted version is produced with a recorded prompt version and model, then checked against the raw transcript for length, structure and material that appears to have been dropped or added. Output that fails those checks is not accepted.
A different starting point from detection
Detection software reads a finished piece of text and infers something about how it was produced. StetPro works the other way round. It keeps a record from the production itself, so an authorised reviewer can look at the recording and transcript rather than an estimate based only on the final wording.
What StetPro records is the work carried out inside StetPro: what was said, what the formatting step produced from it, and what the student added afterwards.
Alongside existing procedures
Decisions about a piece of work remain with the institution and its own academic integrity procedures. StetPro's records give authorised staff material from the production process to read alongside whatever else they hold.
See the record for yourself
A short walkthrough of a student recording a piece of work, the raw transcript and formatted version side by side, and what an educator sees once an administrator enables review access.