Eli Review User Guide

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Instructor Guide

In Eli, users play one of two primary roles – either as students, who participate in writing, review, and revision tasks, or instructors who coordinate those tasks. This guide describes the instructor role.

• The Basics
  • Navigation – take a tour of Eli’s functions and features
  • Accounts – how to sign up and manage your settings
  • Subscriptions – what they are and how they work
• Starting and Managing Courses
  • Creating a Course – how to set up a new course
  • Enrolling and Managing Students – use the Course Roster to enroll and manage students
    • Add instructions to syllabus – example blurb
    • Slides, handouts, and links – customizable
  • Course Settings and Co-Instructors – manage the details of your course and add instructors
  • Deep Links – URLs that take students directly to tasks
• Coordinating Tasks:
  • When to Assign Each Task – explains the workflow
  • Writing Tasks – getting students to produce their initial texts
  • Review Tasks – coordinating reviews and coaching students to be better reviewers
    • Managing Late Writers – tips for forming groups
    • Debriefing – strategies for talking with students about peer feedback trends and comments
    • Tallied Responses – draft quality based on peer votes
    • Comment Digest – sortable view of all feedback
    • Helpfulness Ratings – tips for encouraging writers to rate feedback
    • Endorsements – tips for giving comments a thumbs up
  • Revision Tasks – using review data to coach better revision
  • Task Repository – find and reuse tasks you’ve previously created
  • Completion report – view or download class submission status
  • Analytic Data – using the formative feedback available at the course and student level