Whether you want to start a business or teach students around the globe, everything is quite easy to handle through the Internet. Many applications are available on the internet that help develop communication among students. One such application is Canvas which is used by teachers, students, and parents.
Through Canvas, the assignments, courses, quizzes, and grades are potentially easy to work with. It consists of multiple options that allow the instructor to view the progress of each student. Canvas also raises the flag for any use of AI using different tools.
This article will help us understand the following topics in detail:
- What is Canvas?
- What is ChatGPT?
- How Does ChatGPT Work?
- Do Canvas Detect ChatGPT?
- How to Avoid the Detection?
- Conclusion
1. What is Canvas?
Canvas is called LMS or a Learning Management System that students or institutions mostly use for educational content. It allows the teachers and the professors to upgrade marks, post information, and upload assignments online.
One main advantage of Canvas is that it is a free tool that you can use without any hassle. You can create content, upload quizzes, or even do video conferences without any worries about the cost. It works on Mobile phones also without the only requirement of a laptop or desktop however its only requirement is to have a stable internet connection.
2. What is ChatGPT?
ChatGPT was launched on November, 22 by OpenAI. It helps the user to generate the information according to the requirement. You can provide your main points to ChatGPT for that specific task and it produces the best results for you. It feels like an interaction between the human.
3. How Does ChatGPT Work?
ChatGPT works in such a manner that it takes the text usually called a prompt from the user and applies the Neural network to break the important part of your requirement, to understand what you are really asking for then collects the data if it is available on the internet. On the other hand, if the requirement is personal like an email to the boss, it does that too with a similar mechanism.
4. Does Canvas Detect ChatGPT?
Before directly jumping to the topic of whether Canvas detects ChatGPT or not let us first have a look if Canvas is able to detect any AI content or not based on the points depicted below:
- Firstly, Canvas can not detect the AI content on itself, it needs the partner plugins to detect the AI content.
- There are some flags or patterns through which it detects AI content that is against the policy of Canvas.
Now is the time to reveal the truth of whether Canvas has the ability to detect ChatGPT content or not. So the answer to this question is that it can not actually tell if ChatGPT is used or not. However, Canvas can notice some irregularities in the content. For example, if the student is typing fast one reason is that the student is pretty sure about the answer the other reason can be that he might be using some AI tool for the answer.
Let us look at some of the features offered by Canvas to avoid the use of any other site during tests or quizzes:
4.1 Canvas Quiz Log
This helps to identify any activity outside the test environment. This method is quite helpful in detecting if a student cheated or used any external tool like ChatGPT while attempting the quiz.
4.2 Lockdown Browsers
The lockdown browsers limit the use of some keys and shortcuts from the keyboard to avoid any cheating. This method takes the responsibility to stop the student from navigating to any other website like ChatGPT to copy the content.
4.3 Proctored Test
This method ensures the recording of each student’s movement. The instructor can easily monitor if the student is browsing anywhere apart from the Canvas website.
5. How to Avoid the Detection?
It is clear that Canvas can not actually check whether ChatGPT is used or not, however it can check the AI detection using some other tools. Let us learn how we can surpass AI detection in Canvas.
- Avoid copying exact phrases and sentences.
- Just take the idea of your respective topic using ChatGPT instead of copying the entire content from it to Canvas.
- Even if you are allowed to use ChatGPT, try to cite the sources from where the content is used.
This sums up the topic of ChatGPT’s detection in Canvas.
Conclusion
Canvas can not specifically detect ChatGPT but it can catch the potential changes in the content which is the reason for Artificial Intelligence. In this article, we have gone through what Canvas is and how ChatGPT detects Canvas along with some potential measures to detect the use of AI. Apart from this some methods to avoid the exact copy of material from ChatGPT.
