Features and Benefits

Benefits for Students:  Eli guides students through submitting drafts, giving feedback, getting feedback, and using feedback to revise. It helps students focus on the criteria that matter as they learn alongside their peers.

• Give better feedback: Eli helps teachers design review tasks so that reviewers notice criteria before rushing to evaluate. Commenting guidelines encourage reviewers to elaborate using describe-evaluate-suggest, which can persuade writers to revise.
• Get better feedback: Writers read their feedback and make decisions about how helpful each comment was and whether they want to put the comment in their revision plan.
• Plan better revisions: Writers prioritize their peer feedback and explain their next steps. This step encourages metacognition so that students learn to manage the writing process.

Resources for Students

Want to get better at giving feedback? How about using your feedback to make better revisions?

• Feedback and Improvement – Becoming a Better Writer by Helping Other Writers
• Rethinking and Revising – Using Feedback to Improve Our Writing
• Describe-Evaluate-Suggest – specific framework for how to be helpful [View]
• Giving Helpful Feedback – practical tips for how to be more helpful using Eli

Using Eli Review

Looking to learn more about how Eli Review works? Here are the practical, hands-on resources.

• How Eli Review Works – high-level overview of how the app supports peer learning.
• Student Introduction to Eli Review – a walkthrough of the student experience
• How Subscriptions Work – how to purchase a subscription and participate.
• Eli Review Tutorials – detailed examples of how to use Eli’s features.
• Student User Guide – thorough instructions for all of Eli’s features.
• Get Help – talk to Eli Review’s humans to learn more.