Disable ghostwriter for your "team"

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Is there a way to disable ghostwriter all together for a whole “team”? I would like to remove the ghostwriter option all together so my students do not have the option to even try the ghostwriter.

Thank you

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Hey, @AndrewHordichok welcome to the forums!

Unfortunately, this is not possible to my knolage.

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Ghostwriter is a paid product and is available only if it is purchased with cycles. There is a 14-day free trial, but access to the free trial is not something you can control for other users.

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Yes I realize that, but I do not want my students to have access to it at all. As an administrator of the TEAM, I should be able to disable that option from members entirely. Is this possible? Students who are learning how to code should not have access to AI for potential cheating. Even the 14day trial shouldn’t be available to students.

Thanks

Andy

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Unfortunately this is not possible and the engineering team does not have the time or capacity to do this anytime soon.

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Ok, thank you so much for your speedy reply. I understand and would appreciate that this be put on a “wish list” somewhere for future updates perhaps.

Have a good holiday season.

Andy

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Try putting this in #feature-requests!

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Just being honest here but now with chatGPT as an AI, this will make it so that students can cheat easily.
Just watch/ playback the history of their repls. You can tell if they copy and pasted code.

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Just wanted to jump in and add that we really would like to see the ability to disable this feature for our team. We exclusively use this platform for paired programming during interviews, and obviously it is not ideal for interview candidates to have access to an ai assistant.

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Yep, same here. I use replit for admission exams for a bootcamp I run and having the ghostwriter AI option basically enables candidates to basically just ask the AI to pass the exam

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Uhhh, students don’t have to copy and paste to cheat. They just need to type the code that they see.

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Yeah, there are multiple reasons to not use Repl.it for assessments next year. Bummer.

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Another one here who finds it very disappointing that ghostwriter automatically opens in a pane in a Teams assignment. :-1:

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I also use teams as a teacher and use Replit both during teaching and during exams. I too would appreciate the option to disable ghostwriter for a team and at least that it is not included in a tab directly when my students open a lesson or an exam.

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Thanks all for your feedback. I’ll pass this to the engineers to see if this is in their roadmap!

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Also want to throw in here, I think having Ghostwriter automatically pop up is a real issue for edu teams. As we come round to assessment season, I’m having to rethink using replit now for their class tests, as students have 25 free Ghostwriter queries each. This allows them to simply ask it to put together a solution for them when it should otherwise be a closed book exam.

It’s relatively easy to keep an eye on students screens and see if they tab over to another program or browser tab, but being built in to replit and opened automatically right in front of them every time they open an exercise isn’t good…

We really do need a simple flick switch (and probably disabled by default for edu teams).

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