Victor Karkar

March 25, 2020 By Victor Karkar

How Scrible Supports Remote Teaching and Mitigates Coronavirus Disruption

Remote Teaching

The research and writing process historically involves face-to-face check-ins between students and educators (teachers and librarians in K12; instructors, tutors and librarians in college) during class time in K12 and office hours and scheduled meetings in college. Educators would meet with students to review and provide feedback on their research (e.g. articles, annotations, citations) and writing (e.g. outlines, drafts, bibliographies).

Scrible, the most advanced research and writing platform ever built, centralizes all such student work online and makes it available to educators from anywhere. They can access student work remotely to assess it and provide feedback asynchronously within Scrible, eliminating the need for in-person check-ins.

Coronavirus Disruption

So, Scrible can help educators and students continue their research and writing work despite coronavirus disruption preventing them from meeting in-person. As schools and colleges close or go virtual in response to the COVID-19 outbreak, educators are challenged to quickly adapt their instructional practices to stay connected with their students and keep them moving forward on their research and writing work.

So, in doing our part to help educators and students during this unprecedented crisis, we’re offering our paid education plans for free until July 1, 2020. This gives educators full assignment tracking and management capabilities so they can teach research and writing remotely. Specifically:

K12: Our paid Edu Pro Teacher Plan is free. Request complimentary access here.
Higher Ed: Our paid individual & institutional Edu Pro plans are free. Request complimentary access here.

Stay safe and healthy!
-The Scrible Team

March 16, 2020 By Victor Karkar

Keeping College Instructors and Students Connected During Coronavirus Disruption

We’re offering free access to our paid plans (Edu Pro) until Sept 1, 2020, for instructors, students and colleges going virtual due to COVID-19.

We’re offering free access to our paid Teacher Plan until July 1, 2020, for K12 teachers (and their students) whose school is closing or going virtual due to the coronavirus outbreak.

As colleges close or go virtual in response to the coronavirus outbreak, we want to do our part to help instructors and students stay connected and productive. We’re committed to helping them continue teaching and learning beyond the classroom, lecture hall and office hours.

Scrible is the most advanced platform ever built to support research and writing. The research and writing process historically involves face-to-face check-ins between instructors and students during class time, office hours or scheduled meetings. Instructors would meet with students to review and provide feedback on their research (e.g. articles, annotations, citations) and writing (e.g. outlines, drafts, bibliographies), whether that work was in digital or paper form.

Scrible centralizes all such student work in the cloud and makes it available to instructors from any location. They can access student work remotely to formatively assess it and provide feedback asynchronously within Scrible, thereby eliminating the need for in-person, face-to-face discussions. So, we can help instructors and students continue moving forward with their research and writing despite COVID-19 disruption preventing them from meeting in-person.

WE’RE OFFERING FREE ACCESS TO OUR INDIVIDUAL & INSTITUTIONAL PAID PLANS (EDU PRO) UNTIL SEPT 1, 2020, TO HELP INSTRUCTORS AND STUDENTS WHOSE COURSES AND COLLEGES ARE GOING VIRTUAL DUE TO CORONAVIRUS DISRUPTION.

If you’re interested for yourself or your college/university, fill out this form. We’ll respond asap with next steps.

If you have any questions, email us at contact@scrible.com.

Wishing you good health!
-The Scrible Team

March 13, 2020 By Victor Karkar

Helping Teachers and Students Stay Connected During Coronavirus Disruption

We’re offering free access to our paid Teacher Plan until July, 1, 2020, for K12 teachers (and their students) whose school is closing or going virtual due to the coronavirus outbreak.

As schools close or go virtual in response to the coronavirus outbreak, we want to do our part to help teachers and students stay connected and productive. We’re committed to helping them continue teaching and learning outside of their physical classrooms.

Scrible is the most advanced platform ever built to support research and writing. The research and writing process historically involves face-to-face check-ins between teachers and students during class time. Teachers would meet with each student to review and provide feedback on their research (e.g. articles, annotations, citations, etc.) and writing (outlines, drafts, bibliographies, etc.), whether that work was in digital or paper form.

Scrible centralizes all such student work in the cloud and makes it available to teachers from any location. They can access student work remotely to formatively assess it and provide feedback asynchronously within Scrible, thereby eliminating the need for in-person, face-to-face discussions. So, we can help teachers and students continue moving forward with their research and writing despite COVID-19 disruption preventing them from being in school together.

WE’RE OFFERING FREE ACCESS TO OUR PAID TEACHER PLAN (EDU PRO TEACHER PLAN) UNTIL JULY 1, 2020, FOR K12 TEACHERS WHOSE SCHOOL IS CLOSING OR GOING VIRTUAL DUE TO THE CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK.

If you’re interested for yourself (e.g. teacher), your school (e.g. librarian or administrator) or your child’s school (e.g. parent), fill out this form to request a free upgrade to Scrible Edu Pro Teacher Plan. We’ll respond asap with your upgrade confirmation (for teachers) or next steps (for librarians, administrators and parents).

If you have any questions, email us at contact@scrible.com.

Wishing you good health and safety!
-The Scrible Team

April 17, 2019 By Victor Karkar

Scrible Announces Teacher Plan

New Scrible Edu Pro Teacher Plan makes Edu Pro features affordably accessible to individual teachers and their students

Image Credit: Google Edu

We’re excited to announce our new Edu Pro Teacher Plan! It’s an affordable annual subscription to Scrible Edu Pro that gives teachers and their students all the power and benefits of Edu Pro. See our Plans Page for feature details and how this new Teacher Plan compares to our other Plans. Here are the highlights (pun intended):

• Assignments for your classes
• Real-time student progress data
• 5 more libraries for you
• 1 more library for each student
• All libraries become sharable
• Annotations preview feature
• Annotation Summary feature
• Annotation Legend feature

• Annotation-level view of library
• 28 more annotation colors
• 5 more annotation styles
• Outline editor for each library
• Savable bibliography for each library
• Support for books and print sources
• 10 more citation source types
• 9,000+ citation styles

Teachers New to Scrible: Automatic Free Trial

When teachers new to Scrible sign up for a free Edu account, they and their students automatically get a free 14 day trial to Edu Pro features. When the trial ends, their accounts return back to our free Edu Plan, but they’ll still be able to access the libraries and sources they created during the trial.

Teachers Already on Scrible: Start Free Trial

If you’re a teacher already on our free Edu Plan, start your free trial of the Teacher Plan from within your account under Settings > Plan > Upgrade Options OR click the red NEW: Try Edu Pro Teacher Plan free message next to the Help menu.

Continuing with Teacher Plan

During or following the free trial, a teacher and their students can continue with Edu Pro features when the teacher subscribes to an annual subscription of the Teacher Plan for only $119.99 USD via our website! This brings the most advanced research and writing platform ever built within reach for teachers and their students without having to convince their entire school or district to buy in!

School/District Purchase Option

An invoicing option is available for schools and districts purchasing 2 or more Edu Pro Teacher subscriptions for $169.99 USD per year per teacher. Limit of 8 per school or 18 per district, beyond which you should consider a Grade, Department, School, District or Campus Plan by contacting us here.

Special Offer

Upgrade from trial to paid subscription this month (April) and get the Teacher Plan through August 1, 2019. That’s 3 months free!

November 12, 2018 By Victor Karkar

ICYMI: 5 Awesome Product Updates from Scrible

In case you missed it, we launched 5 awesome new product updates last month! Each one was substantial and deserves its own blog post. So, the updates are listed here with links to each of the posts:

Scrible Gets Design Upgrade – We launched long overdue updates to improve Scrible’s user interface and user experience. They improve Scrible’s look and feel, layout and navigation and functionality.

Scrible Improves Tagging System – We’ve revamped Scrible’s tagging system to make it easier and more intuitive to create, apply and manage tags for your sources and annotations.

Scrible Expands Support for Books and Print Sources – We’ve long offered the ability to add books and print sources to your bibliography via the Add Offline Source feature. That’s now replaced with robust new Add Book and Add Print Source options.

Scrible Revamps Google Docs Add-on – We revamped Scrible Writer, our Google Docs Add-on that helps bring your research into the paper you’re writing in Google Docs. It’s now faster and let’s you view/insert your outline and easily view/edit your bibliography.

Scrible Now Supports Co-Teaching – Educators whose school, district or campus subscribes to Scrible Edu Pro can now add co-teachers to their classes.

We’d love to hear your feedback on these new updates. Let us know what you think!

— The Scrible Team