Quill Lessons enable teachers to lead writing instruction with whole classes or small groups of students. Teachers control interactive slides that contain writing prompts, to which students will respond. Each Quill Lessons activity includes a Quill Lesson plan, writing prompts, discussion topics, and a follow-up independent-practice activity.

This video provides a brief introduction to Quill Lessons.

To assign a Quill Lesson, please navigate to the Assign Activities page and click the Explore all activities in our activity library card.

In Quill's activity library, check the Whole Class Instruction filter to only see Quill Lessons.

From there, you can search for keywords in the Search for concepts, activities, and more field or check additional filters to find the Quill Lesson that you would like to assign. Once you find a Quill Lesson you would like to assign, you can preview the Quill Lesson to see what your students will be doing during the Quill Lesson. Then, you may assign the Quill Lesson to your classes.

Every Quill Lesson has an associated plan that can be downloaded as a PDF. The plan lists each prompt that your students will see during the Quill Lesson and suggested discussion prompts that you may use during the Quill Lesson. Please click here to see a sample of a Quill Lesson plan, and please read below to see the two different ways to access a Quill Lesson plan.

On the Overview page, scroll to the Present a live lesson section and click the ellipsis icon to the far right of the Quill Lesson's name.

Then, click Download lesson plan.

On the Launch Lessons page, hover over and click the Download Lesson Plan icon to the far right of the Quill Lesson's name.

Please read below to see some steps and tips for launching and implementing a Quill Lesson.

In order to implement a Quill Lesson with your students, you must launch the Quill Lesson. To launch a Quill Lesson, please navigate to the Launch Lessons page in the My Activities tab.

Use the dropdown menu in the upper left corner of the page to select the class to which the Quill Lesson is assigned. Then, find the Quill Lesson that you would like to launch and click the Launch Lesson button to the far right of the Quill Lesson's name.

Once you launch the Quill Lesson, students will be able to click the Join the lesson button that appears in their Quill accounts.

You can see how many of your students have joined the Quill Lesson on the Title Slide in the teacher view. The names of students who have joined will be highlighted in green.

For each student practice slide, you can select and anonymously display student responses to encourage your students to discuss and better understand the relevant writing skill.

After displaying and discussing some student responses, if some students did not correctly use the relevant writing skill, you may click the circular arrow icon in the Have Student Retry column to the far right of their names to prompt them to submit a new response.

During a Quill Lesson, you may notice that a few students may benefit from practicing the relevant writing skill further. If you would like to flag a student for further practice, please click the flag icon in the Flag column. Please note that students will not be notified if you flag them.

Throughout the Quill Lesson, you may hover over the flag icon in the upper right corner to easily see the students whom you have flagged.

Please read below to see the methods that you can use to complete a Quill Lesson and view the Quill Lesson report.

At the end of a Quill Lesson, you will be presented with the following options.

Select the option that you would like to use and click the button that corresponds with your selection at the bottom of the page. After you select an option, you will see the page below, and the Quill Lesson will automatically be marked as complete.

Then, you can click the Exit Lesson | View Report button to view the Activity Analysis report for the Quill Lesson.

If you exited the Quill Lesson before choosing what students will do after the Quill Lesson, you can mark the Quill Lesson as complete by navigating to Launch Lessons page in the My Activities tab.

Then, find the Quill Lesson that you would like to mark complete and click the Mark As Complete link to the right of the Quill Lesson's name.

Once you mark a Quill Lesson as complete, you can view the Activity Analysis report by clicking the View Report button that appears to the right of the Quill Lesson's name.

Please feel free to send a message to the Quill team using the green message bubble on the bottom right corner of the screen or email us at support@quill.org.