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New release: Revisely has been strengthened with several new features such as saving and reusing personal comments!

12 July 2018

Revisely, the online application for teachers to help provide better and faster feedback on students’ texts, has been further improved in version 2.8. with, among others, features to save open observations and easily re-use them when correcting other students’ texts. The new version will be online from July 16th!

 

Revisely, July 12th 2018 – Revisely has been further improved with its latest release, Revisely 2.8. The digital correction application supports teachers in correcting assignments and giving extensive feedback. In the past year, the number of users of Revisely has grown exponantionally. Around the 575 schools and universities now use Revisely. This means that Revisely currently has 196,023 users! Revisely has optimized various system processes and added new features to provide an even better service to teachers correcting assignments and helping to further develop students’ skills. The main new updates in the new release are:

Create your own re-usable observations from open text comments

You can now make your own ‘open text’ comments re-usable as either critical or positive observations. This means you can save your comments in a personal database. You no longer have to retype your own favourite comments but can create them once and just attach them to the text again and again.
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Use multiple sets of observations at the same time
Before, you could only choose one set of observations, when creating the assignment. This meant that you chose the language of the texts to be handed in as well as the language and level of the observation content. Starting this release you still choose the main set of observations when you create the assignment (this still determines the evaluation criteria that are in the score summary) but you can now use other and multiple sets of and observations while correcting. In addition, there are many newly built-in observations to provide feedback on the writing skills of students.
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Other new functionalities and improvements are: 
  • Hand in Word, OpenOffice, and HTML documents
  • Different look for texts typed in Revisely
  • Observation/comment menu in one
  • More criteria
  • Use multiple observation sets at the same time
  • Possibility to use customized school criteria in the assignment
  • Observation set for writing skills especially for Utrecht University
  • Copying bits of text
  • Context-sensitive menu
  • Multiple correctors at the same time
  • Logging
  • Guided tour
  • Fancy formatting

The first reactions from users of Revisely 2.8 are very positive. Previous versions of Revisely already supported teachers in correcting assignments but with this new version, it is even easier and faster to correct your students’ texts.

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New release: Revisely now a broad tool for all courses at school/university

31 July 2017

Revisely, the online tool for teachers to give fast, more and better feedback to texts, is further improved in its new update. One of the improvements is the new feature to upload texts as a PDF file. It is now possible to use Revisely for all classes and courses at your educational institution.

These new possibilities are of great benefit to schools. Revisely is not only useful anymore for language courses/classes but can be used by the entire school or university. From papers or exams to powerpoint presentations, Revisely is of great use for every assignment. Therefore, more teachers are able to save time and keep overview of the performances. Managers benefit from the reporting tools showing the development of the entire school and students receive richer feedback in multiple courses/subjects. For example, the Peer grading and Team hand-in options of Revisely help students to learn from and with each other in all courses. Additionally, it is beneficial to use Revisely as a  broad tool for all classes/courses since the costs can be shared between different sections at your educational institution.

 

PDF-document upload

The main focus of Revisely was always on language teachers and their correction of texts. When the assignment is handed-in digitally, the student can directly type the text in Revisely itself or copy and paste it from a Word-file.  It worked well, however it wasn’t possible to include any charts or graphics. In order to offer a solution for time-consuming correcting for geography or biology teachers as well, we have extended Revisely with a brand new option. Next to copy-pasting texts into Revisely, it is now also possible to upload the text as a PDF-file.

 

 

The submission page

The texts that are submitted by the students are now easy to be found at the submission page.  Teachers can see at a glance what texts are submitted and which students need to receive a reminder. Teachers are also able to download the original documents that were handed in by the student on this page.

 

 

Extension of sorting options

Expanded sorting options in the list of assignments and texts.

 

Duplicate assignment

Teachers can also duplicate assignments in the new update of Revisely. This saves a lot of time when you created an earlier (similar) assignment in Revisely.

 

Block submissions

Finally, we added a new option what enables the teacher to manually block any future submissions. After choosing this option, you won’t allow any new texts to be submitted.

 

 

Learn more?

Let us know if you would like to have a workshop and/or training for teachers at your school.

Partnering?

Revisely is a good solution to add to an LMS, a digital learning method or to complement a regular educational book. Learn more at our partnering page.