Closed Lite · Word processor with proof of authorship

Written here. Not pasted.

Closed Lite is a word processor for coursework, essays and exams. Students write as usual, with headings, lists, images and spell checking, but they cannot paste text from anywhere else or dictate it. Closed Lite records how the document was written and signs it, so the teacher can check that it was written there, see how long it took and replay the writing like a video. No servers and no accounts: documents stay on the computer.

Closed Lite website → See the features Coming soon to the Microsoft Store
No servers · No accounts Windows 10 · 11 · Microsoft Store Eleven languages, the program and its manual Hand in a .closed file or a PDF
Closed Lite main window
The main window: the A4 page, the formatting bar, the real writing time and the signature status.
The problem

Copy, paste, hand in. Who wrote it?

With an ordinary word processor, a finished text says nothing about how it was made: it may have been written word by word, pasted from a web page or generated by an AI in seconds. AI detectors guess, and they get it wrong. Closed Lite does not guess: it records how the text was written. It only lets the author type it, keeps every change with its time and signs the whole thing. The teacher sees the result, the writing data and the replay, and decides with facts.

Features

Write, save, verify.

Everything a word processor needs, except pasting.

Written, not pasted

Pasting and dropping text are blocked, and so are voice dictation and other input that does not come from the keyboard. Every attempt is recorded.

Every change, recorded

What is typed, what is deleted and the formatting, from the empty page, with the real writing time, the sessions and every switch to another window.

Replay

Watch how the text was written, like a video: the pauses, the corrections and the rewritten sentences, at up to ×100.

Signed and verifiable

Each document is signed when saved, as a .closed file or as a PDF that carries it inside. Any change made outside Closed Lite is detected.

With your certificate

In the Medium and Advanced levels each save is also signed with the author's digital certificate: a national ID card, a school certificate or any X.509 certificate.

Verification report

A PDF with the signature, the writing data, the sessions and the flagged moments, ready to attach to the marking.

For teachers

Check how a text was written, in a minute.

  • Open the .closed file or the PDF your students hand in: Closed Lite checks the signature and the record and opens it read-only
  • The verification panel: signature status, author, time, sessions, deleted characters, blocked attempts and exits from the program
  • The replay at ×25 or ×50, stopping at the flagged moments
  • The report and the panel give indications of how a document was written, not conclusive proof: the decision is always the teacher's
Closed Lite verification panel
The verification panel: signature and writing data.
Marking a hand-in PDF in Closed Lite
Marking the PDF: highlight, strike through, notes and the grade, as annotations.
Hand-in PDF

A .closed file or a PDF. Both can be verified.

  • For Moodle, Classroom or Teams, which only accept PDF or Word, the student saves a PDF that opens in any viewer and carries the signed document inside
  • Closed Lite takes the signed document out of the PDF, verifies it and tells you whether the text of the pages matches it
  • The teacher marks the PDF itself with highlights, notes and the grade, which the student sees in any viewer
  • The signed document inside does not change, so the work can still be verified

Ask for the work in Closed Lite.

Your students install it from the Microsoft Store and hand in a single file: the .closed or a PDF that carries it. No accounts, no servers, nothing to set up at the school.