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Grammarly@edu Instant Writing Assistance Online Tool

Grammarly@edu is an online computerized program that scans writing and provides an in-depth, extensive grammar review (complete with explanations) on more than 150 types of potential writing errors. The program is now available to all University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign College of ACES students and faculty. The intent is to help the users produce a more polished final written product while improving their writing techniques. It could be useful for creating good quality written communications for teaching, research and public engagement.

Note: License effective Academic Year 2016-2017; use beyond that time depends on license renewal.

Creation of your Grammarly Account

1. If you do not have one, obtain an access code by writing to techsupport@aces.illinois.edu.
2. Go to the web site: www.grammarly.com/edu/students.
3. Click the “Create Account” button.
4. Use your illinois.edu email address and the assigned access code.
5. Now, you have full access to Grammarly@edu.

 

Faculty Use of Grammarly Recommendations

1. Feel free to create an account to use for your own writing assistance as well as to explore options for student use in your classes.
2. You can require or simply recommend Grammarly use by your students.
3. You can ask your students to:
   • Create/log in to their Grammarly accounts and have the software check their assignments before submission for content grading.
   • Review the suggestions made by Grammarly, and using appropriate judgment, make changes as needed.
   • Download and save the corrected version using the “Download” button.
   • Create and save a copy of the Grammarly overall report and grade by clicking the “PDF Save/Print Report” button on the screen’s right side.
   • Submit the original assignment and the Grammarly report as evidence that corrections were made.

Important Notes

1. Users can copy and paste up to 20 pages of text for review at one time.
2. There is no limit to the number of written texts that users can submit or the number of times users can submit a single body of text.
3. Grammarly@edu may retain the user’s last submitted text or recommended suggestions; however, the system does not save the text. Therefore, users need to save the text elsewhere before exiting the system.
4. Grammarly@edu serves as an automated online assistance tool for writing, but it may not find every possible error. Users also still need to use their own judgment when considering recommended changes because some may not be necessary based on context. Users should not simply accept all changes for the paper; rather, they should read over each recommendation carefully and make the best decision.
5. Be sure to use the Grammarly@edu web site listed on page 1, under instructions to create you Grammarly account; do NOT use www.grammarly.com (which is for individual users not tied to the Illinois College of ACES access account).
6. Do NOT share this access code or information with others, as the Grammarly@edu license is valid for a particular number of users based on college enrollment. Exceeding the number of user accounts can lead to delays in service or even termination of contract; therefore, please limit this access information to the students in your course.
7. Communicate to the students about limited number of license issue, and have them keep the access code private.

 

Other Available Writing Assistance Resources

**Grammarly Handbook, for help with grammar, punctuation and mechanics, style and word uses:  http://www.grammarly.com/handbook/ .

**University of Illinois Writers Workshop: http://www.cws.illinois.edu/workshop/ . The workshop offers scheduled individual appointments for students with a writing consultant to review homework and other written work.

 

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