Now that you've assigned a Quick Write, let's take a look at what students experience while completing the assignment!
What do students see on a Quick Write?
When starting a Quick Write assignment, students will be introduced to the prompt and shown the focus points that they will review.
The left panel offers support for students in the following ways:
- If you've added a source for students to use, the text they are responding to will be right next to their own writing along with the prompt.
- Students see the essay rubric criteria and/or focus points that teachers provided.
Students will draft their essay on the right panel.
If you've added a source to your writing assignment, students will now also be able to annotate in both side by side and full-screen mode by selecting and dragging their cursor over text within the source. They can change the highlight color, add a note, and more!
You can read this article to learn more about what your students see when you add a source.
Completing the assignment
While students work on the assignment, their writing is saved automatically every 30 seconds. Students can also select "Save & exit" at the top of the page to manually save their writing. After all the sentences have been written, students will review their paragraph. Students will then select "Submit my writing" once they are ready to turn in their work.
In order to submit their writing for grading, students must complete each required essay component. Once students have completed their draft, they will select the "Submit Writing" button to send the draft to their teacher.
💡 Students are not required to meet the minimum length requirement in order to submit their writing.
Revising their draft
If the Quick Write was sent back by the teacher for revision, the assignment will reappear on the student’s homepage. Students will open the assignment and make adjustments based on their teacher’s feedback.
Once they have completed their revisions, they will submit their work again for feedback.
Reviewing their submitted work
To view the writing they've submitted, students can select "Past Work" at the top of their page.
By selecting "View Writing" next to the Quick Write, students will be able to see their submitted work, any comments their teacher left, and their grade.