Fantastic writing resource

The program is very expensive and it is daunting when you first look at it. We had purchased it before the Covid shutdown and did not receive much training. I shied away at first, but I was really drawn to the interface and spent some major time teaching myself. It's best to use a premade assignment first to learn how it works. But making custom-built assignments is easy once you give it a try. The AI feedback was a surprise this year, and so welcome. I think that feedback has cut my work in half. I read all of this feedback and I am pleased with how well it fits the assignment and rubric and it even sounds like me. When you have questions and open a chat, a Writable associate answers promptly and helps me get the answers I need. I hate to think about going back to a plain Google doc for writing assignments. Writable is my go-to!

The customization of which readings an educator selects, how and what questions are asked, and the rubric's wording is great for educators supplementing their assignments or incorporating someone else's materials, enabling less time for curating. The formatting can be modeled after tests like the SAT, which is very practical because $7 for an entire year is significantly cheaper than what parents are willing to pay for SAT prep. Offering sample sentence starters for anonymous peer feedback is helpful because some students may be able to recognize when something is off about the wording, grammar, etc of a student's writing, but unclear how to address it in a constructive way. While annotating the reading passage, it would be helpful for this resource to have a pop-up dictionary, especially for ELL students who want to read the reading in English instead of the one offered in Spanish. Overall, this seems like a great resource!

It is important to find a tool that is both beneficial to students and teachers and I believe that this app is the great candidate for connecting students and teachers.