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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...
11trees gratitude, 2021
Greetings from the 11trees team! We are writing to say thank you. To the thousands of educators who found 11trees in 2021, the schools that licensed our software for broad use, and the feedback we received to make our solutions better. We hope you and yours are...
A Biased Comparison: Canvas Comment Libraries and Annotate PRO
We deeply appreciate Canvas - for the competition they bring to the LMS space, for their wonderful APIs, the community they've created and their generous partnership program. Canvas has always cared about learning and clients vs. (for instance) suing competitors over...
What does Canopy do for you? One instructor’s view…
Online education relies on discussion boards to simulate classroom conversation by asking students to read a text and post a series of responses, both original and in dialogue with peers. While discussion boards can be extremely valuable, they can also be frustrating...
11trees Announces the School Resources Edition Service
Austin, TX – July 1, 2020 –11trees LLC, an EdTech company helping scale 1-to-1 engagement, today announced the general availability of the School Resources Edition Library, a service to help schools connect students with the wide array of academic, financial, career...
Annotate PRO Summer 2020 Update
We hope you and your family are well in these unprecedented times. As the summer of 2020 begins much is uncertain in this huge but tiny world of ours. We kind of hope you've put down your grading/marking hat for some time off, although our users span the globe and all...
11trees’ Solutions Free Through December 31, 2020
Educators around the world are adjusting to a new reality that requires all teaching be delivered online. One of our most compelling and effective tools - our physical presence - has been taken off the table, at least for the foreseeable future (and none of us can see...
Making the most of your 35 hours/day…
Differentiate feedback to your diverse learners through Annotate PRO’s comment bank features Tyler Wenzel11trees Product Specialist As great of a teacher as you are (we know you must be great if you’re reading this!) you are only mortal. You only have 35 hours in a...
11trees Announces Canopy, the Discussion Forum Engagement Solution for Canvas LMS
Austin, TX – July 8, 2019 –11trees LLC, an EdTech company helping scale 1-to-1 engagement, today announced the general availability of Canopy, a cloud solution that helps instructors effectively manage online discussion forums in the Canvas LMS. Canopy is a...
Annotate Pro – the Author’s Experience and Perspective
Annotate Pro – the Author’s Experience and Perspective Editor's Note: Professor Mitch Nathanson, of Villanova Law School, authored the extensive library of comments that comes pre-loaded with Annotate PRO for Legal Writing. We asked him to give us some background on...