A productive tool to encourage and automatize proper writing and originality among students.

Submitted 8 years ago

Community Review for Grammarly@edu

Isaac P.
Isaac P.
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This is a great tool that saves teachers time checking for plagiarism, in addition to supporting the Grammar and writing overall. As much as it saves time, it will never be a replacement for a teacher's judgement and personalized feedback to the students. It is very useful for individual work. Students have the opportunity to review and be re-taught some of the most important grammatical, structural, and lexical principles.

How I Use It

I've seen Grammarly used among Language Arts teachers in my school to provide objective feedback and to check originality/plagiarism among the students. Furthermore, teachers have encouraged them to use it to self-check and self-assess their writing before submitting it to the teacher or publishing in a blog and online. It provides a report and suggestions to each piece of writing that is submitted.

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Jenny A.
Jenny A. Carlsbad, CA
July 28, 2014

A web-based tool to check grammar, spelling, and vocabulary usage in a document

This is a wonderful idea! I would use this with my students in 5th grade, no problem but the cost seems to be a bit on the expensive side even for the @EDU (education) accounts. For example, it costs $1,500 for up to 50 users. That's $30 a student. For teachers, schools, and districts, this can seem costly. You can purchase more accounts for a bigger discount, however, I think that this tool could be very popular if the prices came down a bit. I would also like to see a "further resources" link to the explanations pop up window for each error so that students who need more information about what the mistake is could be directed to a website that has more information about it. I think that is worth explaining that to set up how to use it properly is important for this website. You definitely do not want students to go and load their paper, see their mistakes, and change them automatically, without learning about why it was considered an error. It is a great teaching tool but time is necessary.
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