Features and Benefits

Benefits for Teachers: Eli saves instructors time by the simplifying the coordination hassles of peer learning and by providing powerful formative assessment and student engagement data.

• Simple enrollment: Students join courses in three easy steps.
• Structured Questions: Design questions that guide reviewers to notice criteria before they jump to evaluation and include instructions about helpful feedback.
• Easy Coordination: Sort prepared writers into groups of 2-5 or customize.
• Better coaching: Use reviewers’ feedback to provide direct instruction and whole class feedback on criteria, show model drafts, and celebrate helpful comments.
• Timely interventions: Trend data helps instructors see when students are struggling to contribute.
• Affordable: Eli is free for instructors and affordable for students – far less expensive than many textbooks or lab fees!

Resources for Instructors

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 [YouTube]
• 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.

Pedagogy

Learn about the research and theory driving Eli Review while designing your own writing, review, and revision tasks.

• Peer Learning Pedagogy – a four-part series on theory and practice behind Eli Review.
• Student Resources – open-source content for helping students get started with feedback.
• Sample Teaching Material – open-source, feedback-centric lessons and projects.
• Describe-Evaluate-Suggest – specific framework for how to be helpful. [Video]

Technology

Looking to learn more about how Eli Review works? How to put it to use in your classroom? Here are the practical, hands-on resources.

• How Eli Review Works – an overview of how the app supports peer learning.
• Get Started with Eli Review – easy steps to getting started with Eli.
• Instructor User Guide – thorough documentation of Eli Review’s features.
• Tutorials – see step-by-step examples or Eli Review in action.
• Hacks – posts detailing creative uses of Eli by teachers and researchers.

Additional Resources

More materials that can help you grow your practice as a teacher, get tips and insights into how Eli Review works, or connect to humans who can help.

• Stories – learn from fellow instructors who’ve gotten great results.
• Eli Review Blog – posts about feedback or specific teaching examples.
• Eli Review on YouTube – teachers talking shop and examples of Eli in action.
• Student Resource Hub – all of Eli Review’s resources in one place.
• Get Help – talk to Eli Review’s humans to learn more.