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If you do not yet have a Quill account, you can sign up for a new Quill account with your Google account, with your Clever account, or with a Quill username/password combination. If you have an existing Quill account, log in to your Quill account.
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Either while signing up for your Quill account or after logging in to your Quill account, connect your Quill account to your school to be linked to any existing or future School Premium or District Premium subscriptions!
On Quill, you can manually create classes, create classes by importing them from Google Classroom, or create classes by importing them from Clever. Watch the video above or click any of the links below for step-by-step instructions about how to create classes.
Option a. Teachers create classes and add students with their first and last names.
Students log in to their Quill accounts with usernames and passwords that Quill automatically creates.
Option b. Teachers create classes and invite students to sign up for a Quill account or log in to an existing Quill account with an invitation link or a class code. Students are automatically rostered in the teacher's class after signing up for a Quill account or logging in to an existing Quill account.
Click here to learn more about manually creating classes.
Teacher imports classes and students from Google Classroom. Students log in to Quill through their Google accounts.
Click here to learn more about importing classes and students from Google Classroom.
Teachers import classes and students from Clever. Students log in to Quill through their Clever accounts (either by navigating to this page and clicking the Log in with Clever button or by clicking the Quill application in their Clever application libraries).
Click here to learn more about importing classes and students from Clever.
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After creating/importing your classes, invite co-teachers to your new classes and archive last year's classes.
The Assign Activities page is the place to look for, preview, and assign activities.
Independent-Practice Activities
Quill Diagnostics
Click on the Assess student writing with a diagnostic card to preview and assign a Baseline Diagnostic. Our Baseline Diagnostics help you discover the gaps in students' writing skills and assign a personalized plan of practice recommendation activities to address these gaps. After assigning a Baseline Diagnostic and a personalized plan of practice recommendation activities, assign a Growth Diagnostic (Post) to see students' growth in their writing skills. Our Baseline Diagnostics and Growth Diagnostics cover a wide variety of writing skills, and our ELL Diagnostics offer translated instructions in 16 different languages. Assigning a Quill Diagnostics is the perfect way to get your students started on Quill!
⏰ Estimated time: 15 - 30 minutes
🎒 Grade level: 4th-12th
Click on the Explore all activities in our activity library card to search our activity library for our independent-practice activities. Our Quill Grammar, Quill Connect, and Quill Proofreader activities can be independently completed by students, and students receive instant targeted feedback as they submit responses. These activities are automatically scored by Quill, and you can access students' proficiency scores, percentage scores, and submitted responses in our data reports.
⏰ Estimated time: 10 - 15 minutes
🎒 Grade level: 4th-12th
Click on the Explore all activities in our activity library card to search for our independent-practice reading comprehension and writing activities. Our Quill Reading for Evidence activities prompt students to critically read texts and engage students with open-ended writing prompts. Quill's artificial intelligence (AI) automatically evaluates student responses and provides instant targeted feedback for each submitted response to guide students through strengthening their writing and better representing key ideas from the text.
⏰ Estimated time: 15 - 20 minutes
🎒 Grade level: 8th-12th
Whole-Class Instruction
Click on the Explore all activities in our activity library card to search for our whole-class instruction activities. Quill Lessons enable teachers to lead whole-class and small-group writing instruction through interactive slides.
⏰ Estimated time: 20 - 30 minutes
🎒 Grade level: 4th-12th
Quill's data reports enable you to track student progress and writing skill proficiency and inform the next steps in your writing instruction. Learn how to access our basic (free) data reports in the video below.
Basic Reports
Track individual student progress and proficiency for assigned activities. Learn more.
See individual student responses and scores and whole-class averages for prompts. Learn more.
View the writing skill proficiencies for individual students, view individual student responses and percentage scores, assign practice recommendation activities, and view whole class trends for writing skill proficiencies, Learn more.
Quill Premium Reports
View, download, and print a data report with individual student scores for each activity pack and activity. A great data report for sharing with students, students' families, and administrators! Learn more.
View, download, and print a data report with the writing skills that an individual student has practiced and view their proficiency for each writing skill that they have practiced. Learn more.
View, download, and print a data report with the Common Core State Standards that an individual student has practiced and view their proficiency for each Common Core State Standard that they have practiced. Learn more.
Export individual student and whole class data in a CSV file for further data analysis in another platform. Learn more.
Have more questions?
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