# What can educators do when students pass off AI work as their own?

> ZeroTwo has no built-in AI detector and cannot confirm authorship. Set expectations, review process and chat history, and talk with the student first.

Source: https://help.zerotwo.ai/en/articles/8313351-what-can-educators-do-when-students-pass-off-ai-work-as-their-own
Section: Privacy and policies > Educator FAQ
Last updated: 2026-10-05

ZeroTwo cannot tell you whether a text was written by AI, so a decision about a student's work needs evidence that does not depend on a detector. ZeroTwo has no built-in authorship checker, a model's own guess about what it wrote is not reliable, and its Terms say output is not unique: other people who enter the same or a similar prompt may receive identical or substantially similar output. This page covers what ZeroTwo can and cannot show, and approaches that hold up better.

## What ZeroTwo can and cannot show

- **It cannot confirm authorship.** See [Can I ask ZeroTwo if it wrote something?](https://help.zerotwo.ai/en/articles/8318890-can-i-ask-zerotwo-if-it-wrote-something)
- **Chat history belongs to the student's account.** ZeroTwo keeps chats until the owner deletes them, and deleting a chat is permanent. A student can show you a conversation, but a missing history proves nothing either way.
- **A student can share or export a conversation.** Opening a chat and selecting **Share** in the top bar opens a dialog where you can copy a link, and people who open the link must be signed in to a ZeroTwo account. In **Settings > Data Controls**, **Export data** downloads a copy of the student's data. See [How do I share a ZeroTwo chat or message?](https://help.zerotwo.ai/en/articles/7925741-how-do-i-share-a-zerotwo-chat-or-message)

## Set expectations before an assignment

- Say whether AI tools are allowed, for which steps (brainstorming, outlining, editing or drafting), and how students should acknowledge using them.
- If you allow ZeroTwo, ask students to keep the chat and hand in a shared link or an export with their work.
- Ask for process alongside the product: outlines, drafts, notes and a short reflection on what they asked and what they changed.
- Build in work done in class, or a short oral follow-up, so students explain their own thinking.

## When you are concerned about a submission

1. **Talk to the student first.** Ask them to explain their choices, define key terms and walk you through how they reached a conclusion.
2. **Ask for the process.** Drafts, notes, sources and, if they used ZeroTwo, the conversation.
3. **Check the work itself.** ZeroTwo's Terms say output may be incomplete, incorrect or unreliable, so a submission may contain claims or citations that do not hold up. Look for statements that fail when you check them. See [Does ZeroTwo tell the truth?](https://help.zerotwo.ai/en/articles/8313428-does-zerotwo-tell-the-truth)
4. **Follow your school's process.** Do not treat any single signal, including a detector score from another tool, as proof.

Do not paste a student's work into ZeroTwo to ask whether it is AI-written. The answer is not reliable, and the work is the student's own content: ZeroTwo's Privacy Policy makes you responsible for having permission to share personal information, and notes that some AI providers may retain submitted content under their own policies.

## If students use ZeroTwo

ZeroTwo has no education-specific plan among its plan cards, but schools can ask about ZeroTwo Education through the Contact Sales form (see [How do I contact the ZeroTwo sales team?](https://help.zerotwo.ai/en/articles/9047878-how-do-i-contact-the-zerotwo-sales-team)). Its Terms and Privacy Policy also set age limits. See [Is ZeroTwo safe for all ages?](https://help.zerotwo.ai/en/articles/8313401-is-zerotwo-safe-for-all-ages) to check them against your students, and [How can educators get started with ZeroTwo?](https://help.zerotwo.ai/en/articles/8313929-how-can-educators-get-started-with-zerotwo) for ways to use it in teaching.