This development seemed promising. Written feedback in writing courses being so essential and yet so time-consuming, one might have looked forward to a platform that might provide meaningful formative feedback. However, it turns out that the extent of the Purdue-Chegg agreement was only to integrate a citation tool into the Purdue OWL.
Turnitin, however, acquired a start-up that seems to be more in line with developing formative feedback artificial intelligence. As a result, Turnitin offers a Revision Assistant feature and has a range of products that promise teachers meaningful formative feedback for their students. It remains to be seen whether this technology will be available for a whole range of individualized assignments, whether it would be flexibly integrated into various course formats, and whether the feedback would be of high quality and personalized.