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You work hard for your paper, and deserve a good grade for it. Avoid misconduct accusations and use AI safely with Mentafy.

What Mentafy does for you:

Research recorder

When you submit your paper or thesis, our research protocol serves as a Proof of Work, showing your contributions to your supervisor.

Writing Recorder

Our Writing pattern analyzer alerts you when potential misconduct occurs, and helps you revise your work and ensure proper citation.

Mentafy Certificate

Mentafy’s final report delivers pedagogical insights about your paper or thesis and serves as a testimony to your academic integrity.

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Eine isometrische Vektorillustration mit lichtdurchlässigen Glaspaneelen, die einen wissenschaftlichen Schreibworkflow und ein Dokument mit Statistiken, Textentwicklung und dokumentiertem Pfad zeigt: eine visualisierte Prozessdokumentation.

3/3 Process Documentation in Practice: A New Assessment Format for the AI Era

Bavaria requires documentation but does not say what it consists of. TEQSA describes what process evidence is but cannot make it binding. Both aim to make documentation practically workable. Here is what that looks like and why almost nothing changes for students.
Assessment reform AI approach showing statute and sector practice converging on documenting the writing process.

2/3 TEQSA and Bavaria each define an Assessment Reform AI : Two Regulators, Two Routes, One Conclusion

Within weeks of each other in the summer of 2026, two agencies on two continents reached the same conclusion by entirely different routes. Australia's TEQSA argues from sector practice; Bavaria legislates. Both land on documenting the path to the text.
Bavaria's draft law on Allow AI use in higher education: from prohibition to a documentation requirement.

1/3 Allow AI, Document Its Use: What Bavaria’s Draft Law Means for Assessment

Bavaria's draft law inverts the default: allow AI in unsupervised written exams, but document its use. What the draft says — and what it leaves open.
A 3D octahedron model with basic writing and academic skills terms: Ethos, Reading, Writing, Thinking Knowledge, connected by green and magenta flow arrows.

Reading, Writing, Thinking, Knowledge, Ethos: An Ingenious 3D Model Shows What’s at Stake in the AI Era

Dr. Monika Oertner has put the academic core competencies online as a rotatable deltahedron: it answers the question of what AI use does to it. Why this model convinces us and how our corroboration standard protects the spaces where those competencies are trained.
Translation plagiarism illustration: student translating a foreign-language book with a translation tool, submitting the essay and receiving a checkmark — with an empty thought bubble.

Translation Plagiarism: The Cheating Trick Classical Plagiarism Checkers Can’t See

Translate a source and plagiarism checkers go blind: research shows it. How semantic detection keeps academic integrity intact in the AI era.
A text document page with a single paragragraph. A small teal speech-bubble icon, points directly at the highlighted text, asking the targeted question to get an oral defense by the author.

Five Questions, Not Fifty: Scaling the Oral Defense to the Passages That Matter

When the available evidence from academic integrity tools is not yet conclusive,, the oral defense is the fix... if it can scale. Here's how targeting it to flagged passages makes it work.
Original human-written text and AI-paraphrased document connected by a semantic trace, illustrating para-plagiarism detection through semantic similarity rather than exact text matching.

Para-Plagiarism by AI: Why the Priciest Plagiarism Software Fails — and the Take-Home Essay Survives Anyway

An academic writing consultant shows: single ChatGPT pass, and Turnitin drops from 86% to 0%. How Mentafy's S³ still traces a para-plagiarism's semantic trail back to the source.
An empty lecture hall and a blue exam book — the alternative to AI detection that universities reached for after generative AI arrived.

Students Fear Their Degrees Are Worthless In The AI-Era. Adelphi Just Proved Detection Won’t Save Them.

A New York ruling and a Stanford senior's obituary of the degree point to the same answer: submission-based integrity is over. What replaces it - and how.