Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) are popular for building machine-learning applications for graph-structured data.This work introduces GCN-ABFT, a cost-effective approach for error detection in GCN accelerators.GCN-ABFT calculates a checksum for the entire three-matrix product in a single GCN layer.Experimental results show that GCN-ABFT reduces the number of operations needed for checksum computation while maintaining fault-detection accuracy.