Quill offers various student data reports for teachers to review students’ submissions, grade or proficiency status, and the feedback they received on each activity. For more information on how the Quill feedback process works, check out our Teacher Center article on Quill's feedback.

Quill employs a mastery-based grading system to grade activities.

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Students will only see their color score after submitting all prompts in and completing an activity. Currently, the percentage score does not appear in students' dashboards. We encourage students to replay the activities for which they do not initially achieve a green score and go for green.

Quill provides six tools to help students improve writing, grammar, proofreading, and use of textual evidence. Each tool has its own grading logic, and you can view students' scores in the various student data reports that Quill offers. Each tool's grading system works in a different way to generate a score for a student.

In Quill Connect, Quill's sentence combining tool, students are provided with five attempts to revise their work for each prompt in a Quill Connect activity. Students receive instant feedback after each attempt. If the student does not write a strong sentence, the program gives feedback and the student is allowed to improve the sentence. Students receive the full credit of one point if they reach a correct response by the fifth attempt. If students do not reach a correct response by the fifth attempt, they will not receive any points.

The grading logic for Quill Grammar directly mirrors that of Quill Connect. Students receive the full credit of one point if they reach a correct response by the fifth attempt. If students do not reach a correct response by the fifth attempt, they will not receive any points.

In Quill Proofreader, students proofread a passage to find errors and make revisions. Students are given one attempt to make all of the correct revisions, and if they do not make all of the correct revisions, they will see the errors that they missed highlighted in red and the revisions that they incorrectly made highlighted in purple. Students receive the full credit of 1 point for each correct revision that they make and receive no credit of 0 points if they miss a revision or make an incorrect revision.

If students miss a revision or make an incorrect revision, they will be automatically prompted to complete a relevant follow-up Quill Grammar or Quill Connect activity. For the prompts in the follow-up activity, students receive the full credit of one point if they reach a correct response by the fifth attempt. If students do not reach a correct response by the fifth attempt, they will not receive any points.

Please note that the follow-up activity is considered a part of the Quill Proofreader activity, so if a student is prompted to complete a follow-up activity for a Quill Proofreader activity, they will not receive a score for the Quill Proofreader activity until the follow-up activity is completed.

In Quill Lessons, our small-group/whole-class instruction activities, students engage with interactive slides by responding to prompts and discussing the relevant writing skills. Students will not receive automatic feedback on their responses, but you, as the teacher, can choose to anonymously display student responses during the Quill Lesson to prompt discussion, give feedback to the response, and encourage students to revise their answers. On the last slide of the lesson, you can assign follow-up independent practice activities.

The Quill Diagnostic grading logic deviates from the feedback-based grading models of our other tools. Students are not provided with any feedback on their responses because the Quill Diagnostic is evaluating their responses, and they receive only one attempt to answer each question.

Each prompt on a Quill Diagnostic/Writing Skills Survey is meant to assess a very specific target skill, and any response that demonstrates that the student has mastered the target skill is considered correct. As a result, the Quill Diagnostic grading logic intentionally ignores (and does not take off points for) spelling errors and other errors that aren't related to the target skill, which differs from the grading logic for all other Quill tools. Furthermore, this grading logic also allows Quill to more accurately recommend activities for students relevant to the target skills that the Quill Diagnostic is assessing.

Lastly, since Quill Diagnostics are used to gauge students' skills, some of the prompts are intentionally difficult to assess their needs.

Students do not see their percentage scores in their student dashboard after completing a Quill Diagnostic/Writing Skills Survey. Instead, a Quill Diagnostic will be denoted as having been completed with the copy, Completed, and a blue square. A teacher will be able to view students' to prompts in the Quill Diagnostic/Writing Skills Survey by navigating to the Diagnostics report in the My Reports tab. In the Diagnostics report, you can see students' proficiency levels for the writing skills assessed by the Quill Diagnostic/Writing Skills Survey and assign the practice recommendation activities that your students have been recommended to complete based on their Quill Diagnostic/Writing Skills Survey performance.

Please explore the articles below to learn more about Reading for Evidence grading.

To view Quill's data reports with information about students' performances on their completed activities, click on the My Reports tab and select a report you would like to view.

The Activity Summary report provides a high-level overview of students' progress through their activities and their performance on their Quill activities.

The Activity Analysis report shows a student's percentage for an activity (if applicable), each response that they submitted for each prompt in an activity, and the feedback they received for each response that they submitted.

The Diagnostics report provides information on class-wide and individual student target skill proficiency and shows you the practice recommendation activities that students are recommended to complete.

The Activity Scores report (Quill Premium) report provides a downloadable overview of a student's progress on completed Quill activities.

The Concepts report (Quill Premium) shows you information on the various writing concepts and skills that students have encountered on Quill.

The Standards report (Quill Premium) provides information on each Common Core State Standard the students have encountered on Quill.

The Data Export feature (Quill Premium) feature allows you to download data into a PDF or CSV file for further analysis or to import into your school's grade book.

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