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New! Writing Content
Premium FeaturesWriting Independent PracticeTesting season is quickly approaching! Check out our new pathways, including Embedding Evidence, Introductions, and Conclusions. Or filter our content by...
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New! Assignment Form Updates
New Premium FeaturesPreview Writing Cycle Descriptions & CriteriaLooking to assign a Writing Cycle, but not sure which topics fit into your unit? Check out the topic descriptions next to each...
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New! Printable Student Login Strips
New Free FeaturesPrintable Student Login StripsWorried that students won’t remember their username and password? Create their credentials so you can print them out and give them to students on the...
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Backfilling More Faster
Not so long ago, I wrote about how we swapped out our old mastery engine for a shiny, new one without any downtime. At the time, I glossed over the problem of backfilling what was, at the time, about...
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New! Student Mastery Review
New Free FeaturesStudent Self-Guided Mastery ReviewDo you have students who finished their assignment early?If a student has no assignment from his or her teacher, NoRedInk shows students a recommended...
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Artisans at Ikea: why we built (and threw away) our highest fidelity prototype
In Q4 of 2017, one of our technical leads shared a tension she noticed her team was experiencing: “It feels like we’re asking artisans to assemble Ikea furniture.”Our artisans were a team of talented,...
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My Polymorphic Relationships Adventure
How did I get here?Fix an awkward relationship. That was the name of the story that I took on as the NoRedInk Writing team embarked on creating our new Peer Review writing product. As we perfected how...
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A type for views
One of the joys of writing Elm apps is the many ways the compiler catches our mistakes, and the useful error messages it gives us when it does. It’s a two-way street though, meaning that the degree to...
View ArticleService Outage Update (8/27)
On Monday morning (8/27), NoRedInk experienced a two-hour period of downtime due to irregularly high traffic. Upon investigation, we identified that the traffic was generated by a third party in an...
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New! Interactive lessons, view data as you assign, and reuse past assignments
We’re excited to announce more back-to-school updates to help support you and your students this year!New Free FeaturesInteractive LessonsWe’ve rolled out our first batch of interactive lessons, which...
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NoRedInk Peer Review
We know how valuable peer review can be in the writing process. Peer review empowers students to become “mini teachers” in the classroom. Students reinforce their skills by evaluating peers’ writing,...
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New! Introducing Guided Drafts
Our mission at NoRedInk is to build better writers, and as you know, that’s not easy. There are countless skills that go into strong writing — from overcoming the fear of a blank page to connecting...
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New! “Create a unit” and improved search
Create a UnitQuickly and easily build a unit of assignments! Start with a Unit Diagnostic and then add on a Practice and a Growth Quiz with a single click. This is a great way to track student growth...
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Accidental abstractions
Sometimes we create abstractions in our code without even realizing it. These might turn out to be very useful but more often will come back to haunt us. In this post we’re going to look at one example...
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New! Curriculum page refresh
We’ve redesigned our Curriculum page to make browsing a breeze!New Free FeaturesUpdated Curriculum pageOur new Curriculum page is easier to search! Click on a Pathway to see objectives, topics,...
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New! Preview features & student activity
Find long-form passages, tutorials, and student activity in seconds.Updated Curriculum pageWhen creating assignments, teachers often want to preview the content first. Head to our updated Curriculum...
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New! Mastery Tab, Sentence Stems, and Mobile Sign-Up
We’ve updated a few features to give teachers what they’ve been asking for!New Premium FeaturesSentence StemsWant students to give quality feedback during the Step 3 of the Writing Cycle?Have them keep...
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Win a $1000 DonorsChoose.org gift card for collaborating with your colleagues
Building common assessments or final exams in NoRedInk? Have an assignment that really worked for your students? From now until December 15th, share assignments with other teachers for a chance to...
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New! Passage Preview in Assignment Form
New Free FeaturesLong-Form Passage PreviewDo you want to assign a passage quiz, but first you want to make sure it aligns with what students are learning?When you go to select a passage to assign, you...
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New! Updated Student Interests
New Student InterestsRe-energize students in the new year with our updated interests!We listened to students’ top requests and made our content more engaging and relevant than ever!Students can now...
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