When we sit down to digitally write nowadays, it is usually in Google Docs or O365. If not, it usually ends up there so students (and adults) can share the text, print it and email it. It makes perfect sense therefore for Scribo to reside in Google Docs (soon to be O365) to help them as they write. Why move text around when you can work in one place?
SCRIBO INTEGRATION INTO GOOGLE DOCS AND CLASSROOM
So many teachers use Google Classroom and so many students use Google Docs. We integrated Scribo into the ecosystem to make it easier to access, and a logical extension to what happens in Google Docs.
Scribo is an Add-on for Google Docs, able to be installed at a School level so that each student gets access via Google Docs under the Add-ons menu. Once the student has a Scribo account linked, the Add-on is ready to go.The full features of Scribo Writing Check are alive inside Google Docs. No need to leave your document.
Teachers also have a Scribo Add-on that gives them full control over Scribo from within Google Docs. Linking Scribo to Google Classroom, creating Activities, Live.
Monitoring and instant Writing Checks are all a single click in the Scribo Google Add-on.
OUTCOME
Students and teachers use Scribo in a familiar Google context, with no need to remember web addresses and alternative sites to access. As Scribo is all about writing, it makes perfect sense to find Scribo in Google Docs.
Teachers have a live sync option to Google Classroom, able to sync their students into linked Scribo classes. If the class already uses Google Classroom, one click will sync Scribo to Classroom. This means that any Activities created in Scribo become Activities in Google Classroom. No classroom workflows change and students who are used to working in the Classroom framework will continue to do so.
With Google integration, we leave a couple of things alone rather than interrupt workflows. Grading and final marks are awarded in Google Classroom and Scribo Grammar checking does not conflict with or overtype Google grammar checking.
Teachers can quickly manage everything about a Writing Activity from the Scribo Google Add-on Panel, including reviewing a document they have created themselves, unlinked to any class.
Students enjoy using Scribo in Google Docs. All formatting is preserved, and images and footnotes are excluded from checking as well.
