Versions show the writing journey

Teachers and students can see the journey of writing versions. These versions are stored each time a Writing Check is done by a student.

If your feedback is not inspiring any advance in a student's writing, that's a problem. Seeing how much writing students can get through is an interesting metric, and seeing how students progress their writing is interesting as well.

Deleted text is red, added text is green. The most current is on the left.

1. All Versions going back to day 1 are available

2. Show or Hide the Difference

3. Restore a Version

4. Close Versions

Select Read Text

Reading text back is a great way to 'listen for errors'. Students can listen in a range of languages if they wish.

All options are built into the control behind the icons on the top right.

Starting an Activity Context to achieve an outcome

The CORE Writing Elements Scribo covers

Student Writing Checks – bring elements together

One of Scribo's core features is giving students the ability to check their writing for a range of writing errors and issues as they are writing. Why wait for the writing errors to become a teacher's problem? Busy marking work accounts for almost 70% of teacher interactions with students.

Instruct, Develop and Organise

Scribo Student Writing Check – OPTIONS

1. This is an Essay. Students need to include an introduction with a thesis statement. Obviously, not all essays are equal. If this is not something you want students to have feedback on, or you have not yet got their heads around thesis statements, don't select this.

2. Students can self-check their writing. In the Elements table above, the fundamental writing components that Scribo monitors are listed. These are all available for students to see and use unless you want them to focus on 1 or 2 items in line with what you are trying to achieve.

If you dont de-select, your students will see them.

Fun Facts about options

1. You don't get stuck with options you cannot change – you can always go back into the Activity and change options to suit you, even if the Activity has been assigned to students. If you want to get students working without support, close down Student Check. When you are ready, open it back up! You can alter options as you like to support your approach.

2. If you change a Scaffold or add one midstream, Save will reset the options.

3. If you change Writing Plans, Scribo will wipe the existing Plans and create a new container that will update students. They will lose their plan if it has been completed.

With Activity options set, students get the level of support and experience teachers want them to have.

Core Components

1. Activities To Do – any writing tasks that students have been assigned will be shown by class. Classes are shown along the top. Each Student also has a private Class where they can do student based writing checks with topics and activities that are outside of the teacher-led activities.

2. Everything that is Complete is kept. All history and feedback is online, all the time.

3. Open the Activity.

4. Students can create their own personal Writing Checks, outside of the Activity context teachers assign. A Commerce student might use this, even though his or her Commerce teacher does not.

5. Each Student gets Writing Insights that show where they have made errors and where they have reduced them with Scribo.

Student Writing Check – the Detail

1. Navigation

Activity setup options enable the features available to the students.

This student has the full complement of features, EXCEPT Show Keywords

• Writing Check

• Rubric Marking

• Feedback

• Writing Plan

• Scaffold

If the Show Keywords option had been enabled, they would be shown under Topic.

2. The Targets

Each Essay/Writing Activity can have targets – they are always shown in the same place.

3. The Topic

The question you asked is here. The more or less you add to the question, the more or less text is shown here. Keywords are shown here if the option to show is enabled.

4. The Text Area

• If the original document is linked from Word or Google Docs by the student, Scribo links the text from that document and brings it into vision here. The text is not editable as that needs to be done in Google or Word. A link is given back to the document.

• If the student's text is cut and pasted or even written into Scribo, the text is editable and any suggested changes can be accepted.

• Grammar, Spelling and Punctuation is enabled in text that is controlled by Scribo. In Word and Google the spelling and grammar is done by Word or Google.

• Scribo does not support images in the Scribo Text panel. Images in Word and Google Docs will be excluded.

The Scribo Text area is a 'Cold Writing' environment

Writing Check – All feedback is personalised on every writing check

Recap of Options

1. REMEMBER you turned on all of the Options and Contexts in Activity setup.

2. REMEMBER that you gave students access to all of these options on the left, not us. We do default to all unless we are told otherwise. OVERALL and PARAGRAPH feedback are always shown.

3. Revisions are available to everyone (more on this later).

4. Read Text is used frequently!

5. Report is excellent for students as well.

The Detailed Elements of Feedback – you will love them all!

Writing Instruction – a continuous task Scribo helps you do

There are many elements and jobs to be supported when it comes to writing instruction.

The pedagogical objectives behind Instruct Writing

Scriblet is an online writing buddy for students – and teachers!

Create a story context for students, support them and let them write!

Students choose their Avatar buddy. Whenever they like they can get some advice from their buddy. Checks are made across common grammar, punctuation and spelling errors as well as vocabulary, long sentences and word choices. It's a safe way for students to self-power reviewing their text and learning without constantly asking teachers.

Student Rubric Grading

Students can access the rubric assigned to the Activity and grade their work against it as part of a self-evaluation process.

Rubrics will appear for students when the option in Activity creation is set to 'Allow Students to Self Grade?'

Students can open the description and select a score from the element, from the rubric. Their score will be shown in yellow, teacher grades are shown in blue when teachers assign their view.

Rubrics record a growth continuum, not just a grade calculation

Scribo now supports multiple Rubric scores, opening up drafting to be a dynamic event able to be scored multiple times.

Example: 👨‍🦱 A student writes a text –

• 👨‍⚕️ Student self-grades against the Rubric

• 👩‍🎓 Teacher sees the levels chosen by the student

• 👩‍🎓 Teacher completes the Rubric (the intent is to say "if you hand this in now, you are at this level")

• 👩‍⚕️ Student does more work and re-rates their view

• 👩‍🎓 Teacher updates the Rubric with a revised view

• 👨‍⚕️ Students sees impact of changes

• 🎨 ... and so it goes.

• 👩‍🎓 Teachers see the history of Rubric grades on their side of Live Monitoring

In Live Monitoring, Teachers give Students live feedback.

• Feedback falls into two categories – Great Work or Needs Improvement

• Feedback is classified into one of 6 types (Cohesives, Sentences, Grammar Paragraphs, Vocab, Topic and Other)

• Feedback can be directed to a student or group (handy time-saver, no more duplication)

• Feedback can be set up as selected as a standard clause – one click, saves spelling errors

• Feedback is tagged to text positions.

Students Plan – using your selected Essay/Writing Plan

• Teachers link a Plan to a Writing Activity.

• Students get the plan and any preloaded comments into their workspace. They can add information, drag keywords, brainstorm and move their ideas and research around. If the student is using Chrome, they can use the Record option to complete text entry.

• Teachers get to see the student plan and who has done one.

The Plan is visible to students as they write

Fullscreen or summary modes are easy to swap. Students who plan to write, usually write to plan and do a better job. Plan frameworks can only be changed by Teachers.

• Students can drag Keywords across the sections.

• Plans can be amended at any time by students.

Scaffolds can be used to differentiate learning and support

The level of support you give to students as they work can be adjusted by a scaffold. Scaffolds can give any level of advice and guidance to students and differentiated, at student level, when the Activity is assigned.

• Maybe you have ESL Students that need more support than others via extra videos and images, or some bi-lingual support.

• Maybe you have resources in Google and Web links that you can add for some students and not for others. You can copy and change Scaffolds.

• Maybe you want to set up a WEB Quest (a blast from the past!) that lets students follow a fully documented scaffold in Google Docs or Word. The Scaffolds panel comes up in the Google Docs Add-in and Word.

• Remember you can share Scaffolds across the school simply by clicking Share when the Scaffold is created.

• Scaffolds can be made public for you to share across all schools.

Key Benefits

• Scaffolds are dynamic, with checkboxes used to create lists to be ticked off.

• Teachers can see scaffold completion in Live Monitoring.

• Scaffolds can be used to direct students all around the web. Web links will open new browser windows.

Check writing at any time, as students write

Give students more responsibility for their writing to learn as much as they can, as they write. There is no value in GPS (Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling) corrections for a teacher, especially across multiple essays from multiple students, all the time.

Students profile their writing prompt – Scribo builds the context

The Activity context created by teachers is created by Scribo to guide students and personalise feedback.

Each student account has a 'Personal Writing Check' space that is not connected to class activities.

1. Select Writing Check as a student from the menu

2. Select the type of Writing Check – Quick or Advanced

A quick writing check will only ask for year and subject. Advanced Writing check asks for the question. Select Advanced Writing Check.

3. Profile the activity – build a writing context to check your text

Give the Activity a title. Enter the writing prompt for your text. Make sure it is the entire question. Scribo reads the question, searches for keywords and instruction words and builds the writing context used in the writing check.

4. Alter, change or accept the writing context Scribo extracts

Tailor the keywords, limiting words and select the right instruction words. Not all questions have verbs as instruction words. Our recommendation is to locate the question requirements and tag the correct instruction words. You can correct these any time and rerun your writing check. The Instruction words link to the style analysis Scribo presents in writing check reports.

5. Set up a Writing Plan

If you would like to build a writing plan for your text, select 'Set up a writing plan'.

Select the style of Writing Plan you are used to using or that your school follows. You can choose any type and add or change the number of paragraphs and headings.

6. Start Writing

Your writing plan accompanies your writing panel and context.