Release Updates

Process Feedback's online writing space works without accounts today, and that is not changing — students can keep writing with nothing to sign up for. What is coming is an optional login: students who choose to sign in will see all of their work load automatically in one place, and pick up on a laptop exactly where they left off on a lab machine or a tablet. Students who never sign in keep working exactly as they do now.

Currently, students writing in the Process Feedback writing space can add an image only by pointing to one that already lives somewhere else — a web link or a Google Drive link. The new option lets writers upload an image file directly from their computer, so a diagram, photo, chart, or screenshot no longer has to be hosted first.

Teachers will be able to select text in a student's work and attach a comment to it. Editing the student's work is deliberately not part of this: the writing stays the student's, and the teacher's response sits alongside it.

Total active writing time tells you how long a student worked, but not what they were doing with that time. The report will split the time spent into drafting time (the stretches where new text is being produced) and revision time (the stretches where existing text is being reread, reworked, cut, or rearranged).

Teachers can now open a writing process dashboard directly from Google Drive. When a Drive folder contains Google Docs, Process Feedback places a Writing Process Dashboard button at the top of the folder. One click opens the writing process reports for every Doc in the folder, so teachers no longer need to download each student's report first.

Students writing in the Process Feedback writing space can now add footnotes from the toolbar. The notes are listed at the end of the document and renumber automatically as the text changes.

The Process Feedback Moodle plugin is now listed in the Moodle marketplace. Moodle administrators can find and install it from there, the same way as other Moodle plugins.

The paste events section of the report used to show only a table of paste activities. It now also includes a timeline view, a more intuitive way to visualize and analyze those activities over time. Clicking a paste event in the timeline scrolls to the Compare Two Moments section to view the details.

An admin-installed plugin that brings writing process reports into Moodle assignments and discussion forums. No browser extensions, no student accounts.