Solutions for Institutions & Organizations

11trees is obsessed with helping students acquire communication and critical thinking skills. Why? Well, there’s the data (take your pick!):

• In 2011, the NCES measured 24% of US 8th and 12th graders at ‘proficient’ in writing. 3% were ‘advanced. 73% ‘basic’ or worse. COVID and ChatGPT have made this standing worse.
• Yet knowledge workers write more in a day than college students do in an entire term.a
• A ‘traditional’ liberal arts education is crucial for success in a global, 21st Century world.
• AI is rapidly, and deeply, changing education. Educators are returning to old tactics, like Blue Books, and trying to rebuild a divide created by distrust.

That writing skills are more important than they have ever been motivates 11trees. Ask any business executive or classroom teacher and they will confirm that communication skills are the gateway to a bright future. We know feedback is the single most impactful tactic in a teacher’s toolkit, improving student outcomes more than any other approach, focusing on feedback can create dramatic results.

These are the reasons that 11trees builds solutions to help educators scale engagement. We believe feedback is a teacher’s superpower and have two solutions designed to help educators within ten minutes of creating an account.

Annotate PRO (AP) makes it easy to create and share comment banks, knowledge bases, Feedback Forms, and Dynamic Rubrics across your organization.

AP works with Canvas, Blackboard, D2L, Schoology, Google Docs, Microsoft Word, and other leading EDU platforms without any technical integration. You can try for free, in five minutes or less, and continue to use AP’s basic free features for forever. Forever. Or upgrade to paid individual accounts, to gain Dynamic Rubrics and other premium features, or an institutional account to facilitate sharing.

Canopy transforms discussions and feedback in the Canvas LMS. Faculty can escape the endless scroll of long discussions and view student responses in an interactive, spreadsheet-like view. Canopy can help faculty, for instance, understand which students have replied to a post to whom the teacher has not yet responded. Students gain an integrated view of the feedback created for them in SpeedGrader since Canopy Feedback combines document markup viewing with rubric, grade, and even an easy way for students to message their teachers.

“Face to Face” Schools

• Create a Writing Across the Curriculum comment bank and share it across hundreds of faculty with AP.
• Centralize academic policies, resources, and even exemplar syllabi content in an AP library and share it with faculty and staff.
• Share a pack of dynamic rubrics for faculty to use online OR to print and use the old fashioned (and still very effective) way.

Tutoring Centers & Providers

From academic writing to conversation skills, feedback is the number one driver of student success, achievement, and retention. AP will help you bring consistency and high standards to feedback processes across your distributed team.

Some examples of successful AP implementations:

• A multinational proofreading provider designed multiple libraries to support writing feedback across cultures, languages, and audience supporting over 150 active tutors.
• An online provider of conversational English training developed extremely detailed libraries to quickly differentiate instruction and feedback after live, face-to-face tutoring sessions. Over 200 tutors across multiple timezones use AP daily to engage students and create rich data on student learning.