AP and the Exec Editor Role

Organizations and schools with an Institutional license can create  Exec Editors to share AP Libraries to:

• Automatically populate ALL users at the institution with specific Libraries
• Share specific Libraries with individual users. 
• Gain visibility into usage of those Libraries

Two quick examples:

• Your school develops a Writing Across the Curriculum Library, aligned with a core curriculum, to help bring consistency and improved feedback to all writing courses. The Library could be based on 11trees’ own College Edition Library of over 260 Comments covering all of academic writing or developed from scratch. An AP Exec Editor creates and maintains this Library and, with two clicks, automatically adds it to every instructor account at the institution.
• Your school develops a School Resources Edition Library, either on your own or in partnership with 11trees, to capture all the details on tutoring, writing center, policies, clubs, research opportunities, career help and efficiently share it with staff and faculty for use in communications with students.

An Exec Editor has all the capabilities of an instructor plus the ability to share Libraries across the institution or with specific users.

Click through to see the sharing process.

Above we see the AP editing experience. Note the Manage Access button next to the Library name. This is the sharing hub, available to Admins and Exec Editors.

There are three sharing options available.

• Shared with All – this option is only available to Admins and Exec Editors. It automatically adds the Library to an instructor’s list of Libraries. When set to Active using the toggle below “Manage Access” it will load by default for all instructors. Otherwise, they will have access but not see it until they set it to active.
• Shared for Discovery – this option makes a Library available from the Manage Libraries page but requires manually adding the Library. It will not display in their list of Libraries until they manually add it.
• Shared with Named Colleagues – this is the most granular option. A Library can be shared directly with a subset of instructors. When this option is selected you can see a full list of colleagues or search by their email address.

More details and help can be found on the sharing support page.

The other variable when sharing Libraries as an Exec Editor is the choice of Extensibility. If a Library is made Extensible users can customize and extend it with their own content. If Extensibility is turned Off then the Library can be used as-is but not modified. Of course, no one but the original author can change the underlying content. Users’ changes are simply personal edits that appear only for them.

Exec Editors can see all the Comments created with the Libraries they share – perfect for understanding where a large group of users, whether writing instructors, tutors, lab TAs or other groups, are putting their energies. Using this data – impossible to generate before AP – programs can continually improve feedback and instruction.

When used with Google Docs or Canvas SpeedGrader, AP can optionally capture all free form Comments – completely custom feedback provided to students.

Exec Editors can learn more about the kinds of feedback generated and, most wonderfully, quickly convert those one-off Comments into reusable Comments to be shared with all users.

Rather than lose all the energy and passion that goes into providing feedback, AP can help your program get wiser from it.