Designed by a college professor with over 25 years of classroom teaching experience, T.A. Toolbar works in conjunction with Microsoft Word* to help you help your students write better essays.
T.A. Toolbar is especially useful for online teachers of English composition, but may be used for grading essays in any brick and mortar classroom. T.A. Toolbar will be there to save you time and to give students richer feedback than could ever be achieved with a red pencil.
1-Click Comments (See Flash Demo)
T.A. Toolbar comes with a default package of over 70 buttons that treat the most common types of writing errors, from faulty thesis statements to sentence fragments, from tense shift errors to errors in logic and documentation. What’s more, every button can be customized to suit your specific needs. And if you require even greater flexibility, you can create new, user-defined buttons that allow you to treat any aspect of essay grading with precision. Best of all, the buttons are always within easy reach and never obscure the essay you are grading.
Give Writing Instruction While Grading
But T.A. Toolbar takes you beyond merely marking errors with ease and speed; it allows you to actually teach your students how to improve their writing by directing them to websites with more information on how they can improve.
Customizable Buttons
And there’s more: Your essay grading burden will be lifted by the fully customizable buttons and the ability to create completely new buttons to treat any aspect of the writing process that is important to you.
Holistic Grader Can Auto-Generate Overall Comments and Letter Grades (See Flash Demo)
The Holistic Comment and Grade Generator can be used to insert overall comments based on as many competency areas as you want to address. The default grading scheme is geared for first semester composition courses and covers five basic competency areas: Thesis and Purpose; Organization; Development of Ideas; Diction, Voice, and Style; and Grammar and Mechanics.
Stop Web Plagiarists (See Flash Demo)
Plus, with plagiary of online sources on the rise, you can run a simple plagiarism check on suspicious language with the click of a single button.
Keep Statistics at the Student, Assignment, and Course Level**
And finally, if your institution requires outcomes assessment, T.A. Toolbar will keep track of your grading sessions and sort usage statistics by assignment, student, or course–and allow you to graph the results in Microsoft Excel.
System Requirements
Please see our system requirements page.
*T.A.Toolbar works with Microsoft Windows XP, Vista, and Windows 7; and Microsoft Word 2003 and 2007.
**Statistics function is currently experimental.
