Community reviews for Quill

This is an interesting tool for teaching various grammar concepts. It can also be integrated with Google Classrooms. There are five useful components to the application: Diagnostic, Lesson, Connect, Grammar, and Proofreader. These components allow teachers to choose the type of activity to integrate into their lessons. Each activity also generates student reports which include information about concepts which were mastered, almost mastered, and missed. Recommended lessons are also generated for each student in order to help assign more individualized tasks. Some activities also offer immediate feedback, which can be helpful for some students. I especially liked the Quill Lesson application as it provides an avenue for direct instruction and small group, or whole classroom discussion. I believe this application also fits in with TPACK framework and lands on the augmentation level of SAMR.

The lessons are core based and students are able to work on individual skills as well as group lessons.

I think the students enjoyed not reading a passage and answering questions for a change. This is just grammar ---but there is a lot to choose from.

It's solid and easy to use.

The students seem to respond well to the tasks and the concept of working online - a definite bonus as I don't need to nag and cajole them into doing their work. As a newbie user, I find the interface difficult to use intuitively. I made quite a number of false starts before I could find my way around. Some kind of hover-help would be really useful or even a 5-steps to complete guide.

I am really excited to use this project with all of my students. I work in an international school and naturally, their literary skills range greatly. With that being said, I like how this tool is inclusive of all English learners and I look forward to getting more specific feedback from them as we begin to use the site on a regular basis.

I absolutely love it. That is my flat out opinion. It is a marvelous tool for my kiddos to learn and re-learn concepts that they have already learned or need to learn again. I would and have recommended it to my colleagues in the field of education.

I love Quill for building basic writing skills for my students.

This tool is such a time saver. It also eliminates student boredom, because they do not have to do exercises about ideas and concepts that they have already mastered. I like that the program allows you to make changes to already existing exercises to make the content more applicable. I do wish that teacher lesson would be a bit more accessible. Of course that might be more operator error than program issue.

If you are looking to use this for your class don't use no red ink instead of this noredink.com explains how to do the lesson and you can pick topics you want to learn about.