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.
A fourth toggle, Show the document itself, is different: it puts the document's current text on the verify page, and a page with the text on it is also one search engines and AI assistants are allowed to find and list. It starts off, and turning it off again takes the page back out of Folio's sitemap and tells search engines to stop indexing it.
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 takes the certificate down immediately — anyone who opens the link from then on sees a Certificate revoked notice with the date it was revoked, instead of the certificate itself. 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 brings back the same public verify link — not a fresh one — as a valid, freshly-issued certificate, and lets you pick your sharing choices again from scratch. Because that link had been taken down on purpose, Folio checks with you first: you'll see a prompt confirming the same link is about to go live again, and you have to say "Publish anyway" before it does. 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.