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Reading comfort
Saved in this browser only. Nothing is sent anywhere.
For educators · Free · Nothing to install
The brief marker, sized for the board. Work through the command words, the topic, the limits, the criteria and what to include together, then send students the marked brief as a link or a QR code.
The brief marker needs JavaScript, which is off in this browser. The same five marks are on paper in the Planning an assignment pack: the command words, the topic, the limits, the criteria and what to include.
Step 1
Paste the brief you are setting, or start with the example one. It stays in this browser; nothing is sent anywhere.
Step 2
One step at a time on the board: the command words, the topic, the limits, the criteria and what to include. Drag across words to mark them, and tap a command word to read what it asks for.
Step 3
The last step makes a link and a QR code. Students scan or open it and see the brief with your marks on it, locked, with the meaning of every mark one tap away.
Text sizes, the OpenDyslexic font and a reading ruler are in the marker’s top corner. The Reading comfort menu in the site’s header changes the rest of the page.
FAQ
The brief with your marks on it, locked: they can tap any mark to read what it means, read the list of key words, copy the marks as a checklist or send the brief to a KanBananza board. They can also start a copy of their own to mark, which never changes yours.
Nowhere but inside the link. The brief and the marks are written into the address itself, so the link is the only copy, and nothing is sent to us. Keep it somewhere you can find it, like the class channel or the lesson slides.
A link holds any brief the marker does. A QR code holds up to about 2,000 words of brief; a long brief makes a dense code that needs scanning from closer up, and beyond that the page says to share the link instead.
JavaScript, yes; an account, no. Nothing to install, for you or the class. It works on the board, on a shared computer and on a phone.
Yes. Lesson 1 of Planning an assignment has students mark a practice brief; this page lets you mark the real one together first, or send it as homework.
Planning an assignment: two lessons on the 7 steps, with slides, teacher notes and printables. The A3 posters put the five marks and the command words on the wall.
The brief marker takes a student through the same five steps, and the full route carries on from there to handing in.