Checking student essays require a significant amount of time and energy but recent developments in AI technology can streamline the process of correcting student work. Unfortunately, students sometimes use this same technology to compose essays by simply copying and pasting translated passages without having to actually think about the English they are writing. This paper explores the possibilities of adding an “off-line” component to the AI-supported process of writing and correcting essays. First, students write essays by hand without using computers or tablets and use the AI program Optical Character Recognition (OCR) which reads and digitizes the script. Then students use online AI resources to check their work before handing it in the teacher for further feedback.
