Giving students timely, useful, and clear feedback is a vital piece of the writing process, and of the classroom in general. Unfortunately, there don't seem to be enough hours in the day sometimes. Ok, not sometimes. Ever.
Enter Diigo's Clipboard Add-On for Google Docs. You start by adding on the Add-On. Then, create a document that contains feedback on the general areas where you anticipate to see student's struggling. This feedback could contain a quick explanation of how to fix the issue, a link to an online resource, both pieces, or anything else you desired. After creating your feedback snippets, you add them to the Diigo Clipboard, which appears along the right-hand side of your Google Doc. When you open a student paper, you can view this same clipboard. As you add a comment to the paper, you can copy the pre-generated feedback from the Clipboard (link and all) and paste it into the comment box. The video below is a quick, 2-minute tutorial if you would like to see it in action.
This tool is obviously not the silver bullet for feedback since it is basically a way to give more detailed canned comments. It does, however, allow you to give more feedback in a faster manner, which saves you time for adding those individualized comments for each student.
Bonus: Students do not need to add any apps or add-ons to view your feedback because it is all right there in the normal Google comments box. Yea!
I love this app! The only downsides are that it holds a limited number of comments and comments cannot be edited. (If my downsides can be circumvented, let me know!)
ReplyDeleteThanks for the heads-up, Gina! I will have to explore to see if these downsides can be avoided.
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