How to use the Essay Feedback Tool.
Use the assignment rubric to prioritize feedback. Explain which passage needs work and why, while leaving the student responsible for the argument.
Make the workflow fit your task.
Use the assignment rubric to identify the most consequential weaknesses, pointing to exact passages. Explain the missing reasoning or evidence and suggest a revision task while preserving the student's responsibility for the argument.
- What you provide
- Draft, assignment and marking rubric.
- What you get
- Rubric-linked feedback without replacing the student's authorship.
See the input and the result.
Illustrative input and output · a teaching example, not a live WebAct run
Example input
Rubric requires claims to be supported. Student paragraph says: School gardens always improve science learning. No source or example follows. Give feedback without writing the essay.
Completed example
Passage to review: School gardens always improve science learning. Issue: always is a universal claim, and the paragraph supplies no supporting evidence. Revision task: find relevant evidence, explain what it actually shows and narrow the claim to the supported conditions. Question for the writer: Which learning outcome and classroom situation do you mean?
Load this input into the prompt, then copy it to WebAct to try the task. Your result may differ from the illustration.
Decisions and troubleshooting.
Should essay feedback replace the student's entire draft?
Focus on diagnosis, questions and limited examples that help the student revise. The appropriate level of assistance depends on the course's rules.
Why is the feedback mostly about wording when the argument is weak?
Prioritize the rubric's reasoning and evidence criteria before sentence polish. A clear sentence can still contain an unsupported claim.
Try it with your own source.
Replace the example with your material in the task prompt. Keep the requirements you need, then copy the task into WebAct.
Customize and copy the task ↑