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Mind the Gap: Time Between Writing and Review

Students need to be on-pace together for effective peer learning. A writer without a draft is unprepared for full participation in a review. Problem: Late for Writing Deadlines Most writers […]

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Mind the Gap: Giving vs Receiving Feedback

When students give helpful feedback to peers and get it back on their own writing, they are happy. When students work hard at being helpful reviewers and don’t get helpful […]

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Development Roundup, Spring-Summer 2018

If you’re returning to Eli Review this fall having been away for Spring or Summer 2018, you’ll find some additions exciting new additions to Eli’s functionality. This post recaps all […]

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Mind the Gap: Time Between Reviews

Improvement depends on practice. In practice, frequency matters. Becoming a better reviewer takes practice. Because it happens between stages of students’ (graded) work as writers, giving helpful feedback gets short […]

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Release Notes: Attack of the [Course] Clones

Eli has long had the ability to reuse individual tasks, both within and across courses, but instructors needing to reproduce the task structure of an entire course had to do […]

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