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Instructor Brief User Guide for Write Experience

Introduction 2

The Write Experience Home Page 3

Managing Courses 5

Managing Courses 5

Create a New Course 6

Managing Assignments 9

Manage Assignment List 9

Edit Assignment Settings 10

Student Progress and Performance 14

Student Progress 14

Student Reports 15

View a Student’s Performance Report 16

Revision Plan 17

View, Edit and Comment on Student Assignments 18

Understanding “Non-Scoreable” Assignments 21

Understanding Originality Detection 22

Using the Resource Center 23

Finding Help in Write Experience 24

Document Revision History 25

Version # 1.0

Write Experience 2.0

Last Edited: 07/01/2014

Introduction Welcome to the Instructor Brief User Guide for Write Experience. Write Experience utilizes artificial intelligence to score writing instantly to improve student writing ability—without adding to your workload. It uses the same artificial intelligence used to score the GMAT® analytical writing assessment. While using Write Experience, students are provided with a set of course-specific writing assignments, guidance while they write, instant feedback and revision plans and a full eBook. Professors can customize their Write Experience courses and assignments for their students by modifying due dates, scores, adding feedback and changing various other settings to best meet their needs.

This document will cover a tour of the homepage, how to manage and create courses and assignments, viewing student progress and performance, understanding several key features of the program, and how to find help within Write Experience 2.0.

Objectives

This document introduces the following:

Tour of the Write Experience homepage

How to manage and create courses and assignments

How to view student progress and performance

Understanding several key features of the program

How to find help within Write Experience

Audience

This document addresses the needs of instructors using Write Experience for their classes.

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C e n g a g e L e a r n i n g

The Write Experience Home Page

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Each time you sign in to Write Experience 2.0, you will begin on the HOME page.

The silver navigation bar across the top of the page contains a series of links (HOME, SET UP, GRADEBOOK, and RESOURCES) which you can use to navigate throughout the application.




The graphic Student Progress Snapshot shows the average holistic, or overall, writing performance for each active course as well as the number of assignments submitted for scoring. Simply select an active course from the dropdown menu.

The MESSAGE CENTER and IN THE NEWS categories are updated from time to time with important annoucnements, surveys and other information.



Managing Courses As an instructor, you have complete control over your courses within Write Experience, and can modify existing courses or create new ones as needed.

Managing Courses

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1 Click the SET UP link on the silver navigation bar to manage your courses.

2 Your view will default to the COURSE SET UP page, where you can view active and archived courses, edit active courses, and create new courses.

3 Select either an ACTIVE or ARCHIVED course from the dropdown menu. a. An active course is one which has not exceeded its course end date. b. An archived course is one which has exceeded its course end date.

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To edit an active course, simply click the name of the course in the list. a. NOTE: When you edit an active course, you will not be permitted to change

the prompt pack or course key associated with that course.




5 Adjust items such as the course name, start date or end date.

6 Click SAVE to save your new course settings.

Create a New Course


1 Click Create a New Course from the Course Set Up tab.




2 Select the appropriate Prompt Pack for your course.

3 Enter a Course Name and Course Number appropriate for your course.

4 Enter a Course Start Date and a Course End Date. The course start date can be set

for the past, present or future. The end date cannot be set for the same day as the start date and must occur in the future.

NOTE: Once the end date passes, the course will automatically switch to “archived” status. You will need to reactivate it to edit the course and make it available to students again.




5 Click Create a New Course to save your new course settings.

6 Once your new course is created a Course Key will be generated. Be sure to provide the new course key to your students. It will enable them to access the specific course you created in their Write Experience 2.0 accounts.



Managing Assignments Manage Assignment List



2 Select the ASSIGNMENT SET UP tab.

3 To Preview an assignment, click on the name of the assignment. The text of the assignment will appear in a pop-up window.




4 To Hide an assignment from your students, uncheck the box next to the assignment and click the Save button. Once an assignment is hidden, your students will no longer have access to it and you will not be able to edit the settings for it until you make it active again.

5 To make an assingment Active again, check the empty box next to the assignment name and click the Save button again.

Edit Assignment Settings






2 Select the ASSIGNMENT SET UP tab.

3 Click Settings next to any active assignment listed.

There are several settings you can modify for an assignment, which are outlined below.


If you do not edit the settings for an assignment, the default settings shown here will be applied automatically.

Submissions Permitted: You can determine how many times your students are permitted to submit each assignment for a score. (Default is 3)




MY Tutor®: Determine whether your students can access feedback on their assignments while writing on the student workpage. (Default is “On.”)

MY Editor®: Determine whether your students can access grammar and spelling feedback while writing on the student workpage. (Default is “On.”)

Originality Detection: Determine whether your students’ writing will be evaluated by the Originality Detection feature. (Default is “On.”)

Assignment Due Date: Select a due date for the assignment. This date will appear to students in their Assignment Center. (Default is the end date associated with the course)




Display Writers Models to Students: Determine whether your students will be able to see examples of essays at each scoring level. (Default is “On.”)

Hide Student Scores: Determine whether your students’ scores will be hidden from view and not visible right after submission. (Default is “No.”)

Be sure to SAVE after you have finished modifying your assignment settings.

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Student Progress and Performance Student Progress


1 Click the GRADEBOOK link on the silver navigation bar.

2 Under Course Report, select an ACTIVE or ARCHIVED course from the dropdown menu to change which course information is displayed.

3 Select a Course to review from the dropdown menu.

4 The Course Report at the top of the page will display the average performance for all students in the course, as well as how many assignments have been submitted so far.



Student Reports

Once you have selected a course you can look up an individual student’s performance.


1 Under Student Report, select an Assignment and Student from the dropdown menus. (To view all assignments or all students, select the All option in each dropdown menu.)

2 When the student report appears at the bottom of the page, you can sort the results by clicking any heading.




3 Click Print Summary Report to print a summary of the results displayed at the bottom of the page. (This report may also be exported for your convenience)

View a Student’s Performance Report

To view an individual student Performance Report, click the check box icon at the bottom of the GRADEBOOK page.

At the top of the Performance Report you can view the assignment’s holistic, or overall, score and the associated percentage. Below the score you’ll find a graphic display of the assessment of each writing trait.



Each writing trait in the graphic display is evaluated according to the related description in the Rubric, available to students on the Student Workpage. Following is a summary of each trait:

a. Focus: The extent to which the assignment establishes and maintains a controlling idea, addresses the purpose and audience of the task, and completes the assignment.

b. Content Development: The extent to which the assignment develops ideas fully and creatively using specific, accurate, and relevant details.

c. Organization: The extent to which the assignment demonstrates a unified structure and uses transitional devices.

d. Language Style: The extent to which the assignment demonstrates control of the conventions of English, including paragraphing, grammar, punctuation, and spelling.

e. Conventions: The extent to which the assignment demonstrates control of the conventions of English, including paragraphing, grammar, punctuation, and spelling.

Revision Plan

The Revision Plan is displayed at the bottom of the Performance Report. This plan consists of the MY TUTOR® feedback which is also displayed to students on the Student Workpage. This feedback is presented in order from the lowest-to the highest-scoring writing trait.

a. Note: Click on each Revision Goal to see the full text of the advice.



b. NOTE: Each Revision Goal is specific to the score the student earned in each writing trait, based upon the descriptions in the Rubric, available to students on the Student Workpage.

View, Edit, and Comment on Student Assignments


1 To view, edit, and comment on an individual assignment, click on the magnifying glass icon associated with the student’s essay.




2 At the top of the View, Edit and Comment page that appears, instructors can view both the text of the writing assignment and the student’s response. Click Print Assignment to print a copy of the student’s assignment.

At the bottom of the View, Edit, and Comment page, instructors can edit the scores associated with the assignment and apply comments to it.


To Edit Scores associated with an assignment, choose a new score from the dropdown menu. Be sure to click Save New Scores.

NOTE: You must select a value for the holistic score as well as each trait. NOTE: Edited scores will be available to the student immediately.




To mark an assignment as non-scoreable, select a non-scoreable reason from the non-scoreable dropdown menu.

NOTE: Non-scoreable assignments are automatically assigned a score of “0.”

To apply scores to an assignment which has been marked non-scoreable by the application, first choose N/A in the non-scoreable dropdown menu, then edit the scores for each trait.

To Edit Comments associated with an assignment, type a comment into the textbox and click Save Comment.

NOTE: Your comments may not exceed 2000 characters.



Understanding “Non-Scoreable” Assignments Certain assignments may be judged non-scoreable and scored “0” by IntelliMetric™, the automatic scoring engine, for the following reasons:

1. Too Short: Assignments with this flag may consist of only a few words or sentences.

2. Off Topic: Assignments with this flag may be written to a topic other than that contained in the assignment.

3. Repetitious: Assignments with this flag may repeat the same words or phrases.

4. Insufficient: Assignments with this flag typically fail to develop an adequate response.

5. Too Many Unknown Words: Assignments with this flag may be written in a foreign language or contain a significant number of spelling errors.

6. Major Syntax Problems: Assignments with this flag contain such significant grammatical errors that an accurate score cannot be assigned.

7. Copied Prompt: Assignments with this flag may consist of a copy of the writing assignment itself.

In each case, a Non-Scoreable Alert will be posted on the View, Edit, and Comment page, alone with a brief explanation of the reason the assignment was flagged.

NOTE: You may use the Edit Scores feature on the same page to manually assign a score to any assignment that has been flagged as non-scoreable by the application.



Understanding Originality Detection The Originality Detection feature flags any assignment containing a substantial number of sentences identical to those of another student writing to the same assignment. Such assignments are automatically scored “0” and assigned a special non-scoreable reason: Previously Seen Essay. In each case, a Non-Scoreable Alert will be posted on the View, Edit, and Comment page along with a brief explanation of the reason the assignment was flagged.

For submissions flagged as Previously Seen Essays, the following information is available:

a. The Percentage Match: This value expresses the percentage of the student’s sentences which match those in another student’s assignment.

b. The Original Instructor, Course, and Student: This information will help you identify the student who submitted the original assignment.

c. The Response: The student’s response is displayed with copied sentences highlighted in yellow.

NOTE: You may use the Edit Scores feature on the same page to manually assign a score to any assignment that has been flagged as non-scoreable by the application.



Using the Resource Center To access helpful resources, click the RESOURCES link on the silver navigation bar.

In the Resource Center, you’ll have access to several helpful resources, including:

a. Instructor User’s Guide: Click this link to open a PDF of the Instructor User’s Guide

b. Frequently Asked Questions: Click this link to open a PDF which answers important questions about how the technology in Write Experience 2.0 works.

c. Technical Requirements: Click this link to open a PDF which lists the minimum system requirements to use Write Experience 2.0.

d. System Requirement Check: Click this link to run an automatic check of your system to ensure it is compatible with Write Experience 2.0 and to help diagnose any problems you may encounter. After you run this check, you may also send the results directly to the Help Desk for support.

e. Contact Support: Click this link to contact the Help Desk.



Finding Help in Write Experience 2.0 There are several resources to which you can turn if you need help while using Write Experience 2.0.


Click the question mark icon on the silver navigation bar on any page within the application to display specific instructions for using the features on that page.

Click the RESOURCES link on the navigation bar to access the User Guide, FAQs, Technical Requirements, Systems Requirement Check and a link to contact the Help Desk.

At the very bottom of each page, you will also find a link to an email address which you can use to contact the Write Experience Help Desk.

The email address is [email protected]



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7/1/2014 Final Completed Instructor User Guide Megan Fischer

6/3/2015 Final Reviewed content/no changes made Megan Fischer



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