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Pairing Annotate PRO’s College Edition with ChatGPT
When utilized well, ChatGPT and other LLM (Large Language Model) AI engines can be an effective teacher’s assistant and help provide students with detailed, actionable feedback. While it can’t (or at least shouldn’t) replace the teacher’s role in creating feedback, it...
Embracing the AI Revolution: How Educators Can Harness AI to Give Better Feedback
The educational landscape is undergoing a seismic shift with rapid advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning technologies. Throughout history, some educators have met technological innovations with skepticism and resistance before eventually...
Annotate PRO vs Turnitin Feedback Studio: Unlocking the Potential of Feedback
Feedback is an essential component of the learning process. Annotate PRO and Turnitin® Feedback Studio™ are two prominent tools designed to facilitate this process. While Turnitin® is well-known for its plagiarism detection capabilities, Annotate PRO offers unique...
The Science Behind Effective Feedback: Leveraging Annotate PRO in Your Classroom
Explore the science behind effective feedback practices in education and learn how Annotate PRO supports these strategies to improve learning outcomes in your classroom.
What Trees Teach Us About Feedback
Stands of Subalpine Fir (Abies lasiocarpa) in the subalpine meadows of Mt. Rainier National Park, USA.11trees founder Andrew McCann chose the name 11trees thinking of the "one-to-one" relationships that trees are able to form rather than the random number eleven....
Tips for Library Design
Tyler Wenzel is the organizational brains behind the structure of many of 11trees' licensable Libraries as well as over half a dozen Libraries custom designed for 11trees’ clients. Here he shares some of his top tips for designing an easy-to-navigate Library. In 2018,...
Speed Up Presentation Feedback with AP’s Presentation Skills Edition
Giving feedback on presentations is hard. How do you provide specific, actionable feedback on body language, voice, slide design, content, and handling Q&A without creating a lot of “take home” work? We created the Presentation Skills Edition library of expert...
Annotate PRO Makes Me a Better ESL Instructor
One instructor’s experience teaching English to native Spanish and Portuguese speakers and using Annotate PRO to deepen and improve feedback.
Knowledge workers write more in a day than college students do across an entire term
A typical writing class, at the college level, requires a couple of papers ("essays") in an academic term. Maybe 1,500 words each, or a longer 5,000 word "term paper." Maybe 750 (three pages) each in less demanding curricula. Is this wasted effort on the part of...
It Isn’t Feedback Without a Shared Goal
We've all received useless, incoherent, destructive, or extremely late feedback at one point or another. Sometimes all at once. In my first GE performance review, right after college, I received a “4” on a 1 to 5 scale. When I asked my manager what I could do to...