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Newsela Writing: Review Students Work

Step-by-step instructions for reviewing your students' work on Newsela Writing assignments

Written by Neta Raz Studnitski

Monitor students’ progress

You can use the dropdown that allows teachers to toggle between workspaces to monitor student work and track progress in the assignment report tab.

  1. From your main assignments page, locate the assignment and click on it to open the teacher's preview window

  2. Then, switch from the "assignment" tab to the "assignment report" tab at the top right of the page

What insights can I gain?

For each student's assignment you can find the following data:

  • Sentences Checklist Completion

  • The Rubric Scores

  • Feedback requests (this is the count of requests that the student has made for feedback from Newsela Writing)

  • Word count

  • Time spent

  • Last revised

  • Submission Status

Exporting data from Newsela Writing

You can export data as a .csv file from your Assignment Report view. Click 'Export data' in the upper right-hand corner and a .csv of the data displayed in the Assignment Dashboard will be triggered.

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View students' writing

From the students' list click on the redirect icon next to a student's name. The student's writing will open in a new tab. You can proceed to view other students' writings or navigate back to the teacher's preview, by selecting from the "Viewing" dropdown

View students' version history

You can use the Version History tab to view older versions of your students' writing assignments.

Send feedback to students

You can send feedback to your student via Newsela Writing in real time!

When viewing your students' writing, click on "Add A Comment" located on the right side of the writing. Type your feedback and click "Comment" when done. Your feedback will be sent to your student immediately.

View Rubric details

Locate the Rubric's title at the top right corner of the page and click the re-direct icon next to it. The Rubric will open in a separate tab.

Can I create my own rubric?

If you have a rubric that you are interested in adding to Newsela Writing, please send it to your dedicated Customer Success Manager at Newsela for review and consideration.

Sentence labels application in Newsela Writing

Newsela Writing applies sentence labels such as Thesis, Evidence, Analysis, Summary, and Background to short answer argumentative and literary analysis writing by applying the specific rules-based definitions of these sentence labels to each of the sentences in the student’s writing. When it identifies a sentence that meets the rules for a specific label, it applies the label and highlights the specific sentence in the color associated with that label

District Admin: Access Newsela Writing data

Newsela Writing report is available to download as a .csv file from your Admin Console within your Newsela account:

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