Grammarly: Language Arts

Grammarly Can Help Improve Any Paper

101 Days of Free Tech for Teachers, Day 68
Grammarly is a web-based tool that allows your students to improve their writing style. This resource makes it easy for students to find and correct mistakes in their text simply by dragging and dropping the file into a word processor. Grammarly is able to recognize over 250 types of grammatical mistakes and detect plagiarism by checking the inserted text against billions of others online. Other useful features include context-optimized vocabulary suggestions, a contextual spelling checker, and compatibility with Microsoft Word and Outlook.

How We Decide Which Free Tech Tools to Feature
Yup, there are thousands of apps, tools, services, websites, and other offerings — many free — designed for teachers and students. So, how do we sort through all of those to feature the ones which are most useful and interesting? Well… we start by sorting through thousands of these things… then we talk to the presenters in the SimpleK12 Teacher Learning Community and watch their videos closely… then we talk to many of the members in the Teacher Learning Community, teachers just like you who are using these apps and tools day in and day out. We’ve been doing this for over 30 years and have, in that time, developed a sense for what’s good and bad. Have we missed something that we should feature here? Most certainly. So, let us know in the Comments section what we should take a look at and we’ll throw ’em into the hopper.

Carolina Fransen is the EdTech Apps and Tools Editor at SimpleK12.com. She writes regularly about the use of educational technology in K-12 classrooms. If you have an app, tool, website, or service that you think we should know about, please send your information or tip to editor@simplek12.com.