The research infrastructure your institution needs
PowerNotes gives your faculty visibility into how students research and write, promotes library resources where students are, and gives your institution a defensible approach to AI in academic work. All in one platform.
Start with the mandate you own.
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Student Affairs
Student success and retention
Students who build their research before they write produce better work and stay more engaged.PowerNotes gives every student a structured process, consistently, across every course.Research quality & scale → -
Academic Affairs
Academic integrity with evidence
PowerNotes documents the learning process, so you have data, not just suspicion, for integrity conversations.And faculty actually adopt it because it reduces their workload, not adds to it.Integrity with evidence → -
Instructional Design
Works inside the LMS you already have
PowerNotes integrates directly with Canvas, Moodle, Blackboard, and D2L. Students and faculty access it through the same dashboard they use for everything else.No new platforms to manage.LMS integrations → -
Library
Licensed content, where students actually research
PowerNotes surfaces your databases alongside web results at the moment students are searching.Track real utilization data and bring it to your next renewal conversation.Library workflow →
Three things every institution needs.
One platform.
PowerNotes aligns research quality, academic integrity, and library utilization: three goals that have historically required separate solutions, separate vendors, and separate workflows.
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01Research quality — at scale
When students have a structured research workflow, the quality of their work improves. Not because they worked harder, but because they worked in order — finding and evaluating sources before organizing them, organizing before writing, writing with citations already in place.
PowerNotes brings that process to every student at your institution, consistently, across every course that requires research and writing.
Academic Rigor: Students who build research before they write stay more engaged and produce work worth assessing.Structured workflow: every student follows the same research-before-writing process, without requiring faculty to police itBetter submissions: faculty spend more time on meaningful assessment and less time reconstructing what students were trying to sayWorks everywhere: web pages, PDFs, library databases, and e-journals: one workflow across all source typesEssay 2: Urban Greening PolicyResearch and Academic Writing — ENGL 220Export to GoogleI. Introduction3 sourcesII. The Urban Heat Island Problem6 sourcesIII. Green Infrastructure Solutions5 sourcesIV. Policy Analysis and Implementation4 sourcesV. Conclusion3 sources21 sources 43 annotations Ready to write -
02Academic integrity — with evidence
Most academic integrity tools try to catch students after the fact. PowerNotes documents the learning process, so faculty have evidence either way.
Insight™ compares a student's full research history to their final submission and generates a score based on the correlation between the two. A high score is evidence of genuine engagement. A low score is a flag for review — backed by data, not suspicion.
Score before submission: faculty can see Insight scores in real time, with no waiting for a final resultBacked by data: every score is supported by a full research activity log, usable in integrity proceedingsFull drill-down: time on task, sources used, annotation history, and AI interactions: all reviewable per studentInsight™ is available on the Institutional plan. See pricing →
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03Make your licensed content impossible to miss.
Your library has already done the hard work: licensing databases, negotiating access, building the infrastructure. PowerNotes puts that content in front of students at the exact moment they're searching, alongside everything else they find.
The resources you've invested in become part of the research workflow, not a separate destination students have to remember to visit.
In-line library results: your licensed database content surfaces alongside web results; students see credible sources at the moment they're most relevant, without leaving their research workflowLibrary proxy authentication: students access your licensed content through your institution's existing access controls, with no new credentials or manual setupUtilization data: track which licensed sources students actually annotate and cite, so you can bring real engagement data to your next renewal conversationLibrary integrations available on the Institutional plan. Talk to our team →
See the work as it's happening.
Not just what gets submitted.
Most assessment tools tell you what a student produced. PowerNotes shows you how they got there: every source they read, every annotation they made, every step they took along the way. That visibility is the foundation of genuine formative assessment: feedback that can still change the outcome.
A live picture of student engagement — before the deadline
As students research and write, PowerNotes builds a timestamped record of their process: sources saved, highlights made, annotations written, outline developed, time on task. Faculty can see this record in real time, while there's still an opportunity to intervene.
The Insight™ score is one signal within that picture. It measures the correlation between a student's research body of work and their final submission — a high score reflects genuine engagement, a low score is a prompt to look closer. But the score is a starting point, not a verdict. The activity log behind it is where the real picture lives.
Customisable per assignment
Instructors define what engaged research looks like for each assignment: minimum sources, expected annotation depth, citation requirements. These thresholds shape what the Insight score means in context, making it as relevant for a first-year essay as a doctoral dissertation.
| Real-time engagement view | Monitor student progress before the deadline: see who's falling behind while there's still time to help, not after the paper is in. |
| Insight™ score per student | A correlation signal for every student and every assignment. One number that prompts a closer look, backed by a full activity log when you need it. |
| Classroom trends | See engagement patterns across your entire class. Spot when an assignment structure isn't working, not just when an individual student is struggling. |
| Full drill-down | Time on task, sources used, annotation history, and AI interactions: all reviewable per student, per assignment. |
| Downloadable activity log | A complete research record, shareable with students as feedback or usable as documented evidence if an integrity question arises. |
| Instructor comment log | Annotate alongside students in real time. Your feedback appears in their research workflow, not in a separate channel they'll check after the fact. |
A research workflow that makes doing the work the path of least resistance. Students who build their research in PowerNotes arrive at writing with an outline, citations, and a clear argument already in place — the process rewards genuine engagement, not shortcuts.
Connect to the systems your institution already uses.
PowerNotes integrates directly with the major learning management systems, so educators and students access it through the same dashboard they use for everything else.
Direct access from the LMS dashboard. Assignments created, submitted, and reviewed without leaving the platform your faculty already know.
Your library's content,
where students are already looking.
You've built the infrastructure. You've licensed the databases. PowerNotes makes sure students encounter that content at the exact moment they're searching, surfacing your licensed resources alongside the open web in the workflow where research actually happens.
Library integrations available on the Institutional plan. Talk to our team →
AI your faculty can assign. AI your institution can stand behind.
Most institutional AI policies fail for the same reason: they're handed down, not adopted. Faculty who didn't help write the policy don't enforce it, and students find the gaps. PowerNotes takes a different approach. It gives faculty a tool that makes AI use educationally sound, so adoption happens because it improves their teaching, not because it's required.
Students connect their PowerNotes workspace to Claude or ChatGPT, and every AI interaction is grounded in their own annotated research sources, not a blank prompt. Every conversation is logged and reviewable by faculty. The result is AI use that's traceable, contextual, and genuinely tied to student work.
When students use AI grounded in their own sources, their submissions arrive more organised and better argued. Faculty spend less time reconstructing what a student was trying to say and more time on the substance of what they wrote. That's the adoption driver. Not policy. Not mandate. Better work.
Implementation as a partnership, not a handoff.
Institutional deployments include white-glove onboarding, in-depth faculty training, and ongoing support from a dedicated success manager. We work with your team to understand what success looks like for your institution and build the reporting to show it.
Let's talk about what your institution needs.
Every institution is different. Book a call with our team and we'll walk through how PowerNotes fits your LMS, your library, your AI policy, and your specific academic integrity challenges.
Talk to our team