Whether you are new to Quill or want to explore some additional features, you can take advantage of our demo account for teachers. This account is pre-populated with demo students and demo student data so that you can view Quill’s student data reports, test out different features, and get a better understanding of how our website works. Any changes you make on the demo account are not saved and do not affect your main account, so have fun and poke around while you’re exploring!

To access the demo account, log into your Quill account, navigate to the Home tab, and click the Explore a demo teacher account within the Handy actions section on the right side of the screen.

Then, click “Let’s go!” to enter the demo account.

You’ll know you’re in the demo account when you see a light gold banner that reads You're in a demo account to explore sample student data. Changes will not be saved. at the top of the page.

When you are finished viewing the demo account, click the gold Exit demo account button at the top of the page to return to your Quill account.

Create an extra class in the My Classes tab of the demo account, manually add students to this class, and practice adding students to this class, removing students from this class, and moving students between both this new class and the existing class in the demo account. This is a great way to practice managing a student roster of a class before you do the same for your real classes!

Search for and assign activities in Quill's activity library by navigating to the Assign Activities tab and clicking the Explore all activities in our activity library card. Practice using the filters in the menu on the left side of the page to filter the activities that you see, preview activities, and select a few activities to create and assign a custom activity pack.

Practice assigning diagnostic practice recommendation activities. After students complete a Quill Diagnostic, Quill will generate a plan of practice recommendation activities for each student based on their diagnostic results. To do so, navigate to the My Reports tab and click on the Diagnostics sub-tab.

Then, click on the View results and recommendations button for the diagnostic whose data you would like to see.

Click on the Practice recommendations tab in the menu on the left side of the screen.

Finally, click on the Assign activity packs button to assign the diagnostic practice recommendation activities. Click here to see some tips and tricks for assigning diagnostic practice recommendation activity packs.

After students complete a Baseline Diagnostic (Pre) and the diagnostic practice recommendation activities, you will assign a Growth Diagnostic (Post) to view student growth in their writing skills. Once they complete this Growth Diagnostic (Post), you will be able to see student growth in the Growth Diagnostic (Post) report and if necessary, assign even more diagnostic practice recommendation activities to students.

To do so, navigate to the My Reports tab and click on the Diagnostics sub-tab.

Then, click on the View results and recommendations button for the Growth Diagnostic (Post) whose data you would like to see.

Click on the Practice recommendations tab in the menu on the left side of the screen.

Finally, if students have been recommended further diagnostic recommendation activity packs, click on the Assign activity packs button to assign the diagnostic practice recommendation activities. Click here to see some tips and tricks for assigning diagnostic practice recommendation activity packs.

Check out Quill's reports! To do so, click on the My Reports tab, then click on any of the sub-tabs within this tab. Please note that the reports that have a diamond icon to the right of their name are Quill Premium reports and will only be available in your account if you have a Quill Premium subscription.

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