Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path

Checking the papers of your students can take a lot of time.

Depending on the subject and the discipline in question, you may spend hours evaluating the work your class has done. This has always been a typical problem for teachers everywhere, and it might have gotten worse with the advancement of plagiarism. Now you not only have to check papers for their correspondence with your requirements. You need to make sure that the writing is original—otherwise, all your further actions will become worthless.

Analyzing your own writing with a critical eye can be hard to do. I know, I try to do it every day and I still miss things that a fresh set of eyes quickly picks up. Like me, students often struggle to critically analyze their own writing. Peer editing is one solution to that problem. Another solution is to use an online writing checker the one that JoeZoo offers as a Google Docs Add-on. 

Below is a list of some popular add-ons to use with your Google Docs.  The add-ons will empower you with a wide array of functionalities that are not readily available in Docs. Some of these include: integrate various accents into your docs, provide students with audio feedback, create and insert different types of charts and diagrams into your docs, use speech recognition to write your docs, build charts from data in your Google Sheets, and browse a large gallery of professionally designed templates.

If you have ever spent hours grading your students’ essays and wondered, “did anyone read the comments I left for them?” You should try using the Google Docs add-on called JoeZoo Express.

JoeZoo Express is a Google Docs add-on that lets you add voice and text comments to your students’ Google Docs. JoeZoo includes the option to use more than 90 pre-made comments as well your own canned comments. And you can record your voice to use in comments. But what makes JoeZoo Express special is a built-in student engagement tracker.