What publishing does
Publishing your integrity report turns it into a certificate: a public verify
link (usefolio.co/verify/<code>) that anyone can open to confirm you wrote
the document. The link stays live and its code never changes — editing it
later doesn't create a new one.
Choosing what a professor's check can see
Before you publish, you choose what shows up if a professor ever runs a detailed check on your document. The public summary — word count, citation count, total AI use — always shows. These three only add detail on top of that, and only if you turn them on:
- Revision timeline — when your draft grew, across sessions.
- Paste activity — how much text was pasted in (a count only, never the pasted text itself).
- AI-assist detail — which Folio AI features you used, broken down.
Leaving all three off doesn't hide the certificate — it just keeps the public summary as the only thing a check can surface.
Changing your mind after publishing
Once a certificate is live, its card in the Submission Checklist has a Sharing settings control. Click Edit sharing to reopen the same three toggles, adjust them, and save. This re-publishes the certificate, but the link and its code stay exactly the same — only what a professor's check tool is allowed to show updates. Editing sharing settings never costs a publish credit, on any plan; it's managing privacy on an attestation you already made, not creating a new one.
Revoking a certificate
Next to Sharing settings is Revoke certificate. Confirming it kills the public verify link immediately — anyone who has it gets a "not found" page from then on. Revoking doesn't touch your integrity report or your document, and it doesn't cost a credit either.
You can publish again whenever you want after revoking. That mints a fresh link and lets you pick your sharing choices again from scratch — but unlike editing sharing settings, bringing a certificate back after a revoke is a real publish, so it does count against your plan's monthly publish limit.