Learning the Platform

Selecting the Perfect Writing Template For Your Students

Different writing tasks call for different structures. Here's an overview of different templates essaypop offers.

Written by Mike Hicks
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How to Assign a Quickwrite

Sometimes there isn't time for a full essay. Quickwrites are great for warm-ups, reflection, and brainstorming.

Written by Mike Hicks
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Mastering the Short-Response Essay

The short-response essay is the most common type of writing students will encounter, but many don't understand how to approach it.

Written by Mike Hicks
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How to Create a Multiple-Paragraph Essay

Multiple-paragraph papers are easy to compose using essaypop.

Written by Mike Hicks
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Writing Short Stories with Essaypop

The narrative template allows students to craft short stories one element at a time.

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How to Set Up a Pre-Write Experience

Brainstorming or pre-writing is a powerful way to get students to think deeply about their upcoming essay.

Written by Mike Hicks
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Watch an Essay Being Built from Scratch

Here's a great lesson from our library and a video of the essay being constructed -- a perfect first lesson if you're new to essaypop.

Written by Mike Hicks
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Exporting to a Google Doc

Can essaypop docs be converted to google docs?

Written by Mike Hicks
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Revision and Progress Monitoring

Teachers can very easily take what students are doing in essaypop and use GoogleDocs or Word to create a revision history. Here's how --

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Help Cards

Students receive help through models and detailed explanations that show up in easily-accessible cards that appear in a sidebar.

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How to Assign a Timed Essay

Kids need to practice writing in timed environment, as they will encounter these situations throughout their schooling.

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Ironically, Essaypop isn't just for writing essays.

You and your students can do a whole lot more with the platform so that the kids are writing every day.

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The Hive: Accessing Student Work

How does the teacher view student work and leave feedback? This is done in The Hive, the social and interactive heart of essaypop.

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"Reading" the Hive

How to understand what's happening with your students in the Hive in a glance.

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Invite Guests

essaypop allows you to invite another teacher, administrator, librarian, or expert to your essay.

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The Essaypop Hive – Safety, Security, Privacy, and Managing the Interactive Environment

The innovative Hive environment is a safe and secure for students to interact because the essaypop team built it that way.

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The Assessment Tool

Picking which elements you want to grade saves time, and you'll generate valuable data as well.

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Using the Assessment Feature

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My Assessment Data

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How to Select, Create, Modify or Share a Lesson

Lesson creation and sharing is easy to do with essaypop.

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essaypop for elementary grades

essaypop can absolutely be used for elementary school kids

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Customizing Your Essaypop Profile and Look

It's time to bedazzle your essaypop experience!

Written by Mike Hicks
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The Official Essaypop "Present to Your Department" Kit

So you think essaypop is really cool, and you want to show it off to your team? This kit should help.

Written by Mike Hicks
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