AI Feedback and IB Academic Integrity
The most common question before using any AI tool on IB work is "will this get me in trouble?" Here is an honest walkthrough of where the line sits, and exactly what IBLens does with your essay.
What the IB integrity policy actually cares about
The policy is built around one principle: the work you submit must be your own. Getting feedback on work you wrote yourself — as teachers, EE supervisors and tutors do — is study support, not misconduct. Two caveats: your school may set stricter rules (check with your coordinator, disclose when in doubt), and the line is bright — AI-generated text must never go into your submission.
How to use AI feedback with integrity
- Get feedback, not text: use the criterion breakdown to find weak points, then fix them in your own words.
- Keep your drafts — a draft history is your best evidence the work is yours.
- Follow your school policy and disclose AI-assisted feedback if required.
- Never submit AI-written text. Feedback in, your own writing out.
What IBLens does with your essay
- No training on your essays — graded and returned, never training data.
- No sharing, selling or publishing. No exemplar library built from submissions.
- Anonymous analyses are not stored permanently; deletion on request.
- Nothing is fed to Turnitin or any plagiarism database.
Will Turnitin flag me for using AI feedback?
No. Reading feedback adds nothing to similarity databases. What gets flagged is AI-generated prose inside your submission — which is why IBLens returns criterion feedback, never rewritten text.