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

May 16, 2019 By Victor Karkar

Scrible Overhauls How-to Guides and In-App Tours

We’re excited to announce a major refresh of our How-to Guides and in-app Tours. These are 2 distinct types of self-help and training resources available under the Help menu when you’re signed into your Library.

How-to Guides

Our new How-to Guides replace our previous Scrible Edu Guides, which were a set of PDFs containing screenshots and captions on different topics to help guide you through various aspects of using Scrible Edu such as signing up, installing and using the Scrible Toolbar Chrome Extension, connecting/syncing with Google Classroom, etc. Those guides were launched a year ago and became increasingly outdated with major product updates we made in May and November of 2018.

The new How-to Guides are better because:

New Interfaces. They’re updated to cover those product changes and show our current interfaces.
More Topics. There’s more of them covering more topics. This is an ongoing effort. Our library of How-to Guides will grow over time and cover an increasing number of topics. Let us know what’s missing that you’d like us to cover next.
Bite-Sized. They’re more succinct and focused. Some of the previous PDF Guides were long and covered multiple topics. These new Guides are shorter and easier to digest quickly.
Webpages, not PDFs. They’re built as responsive webpages instead of PDFs. So, their size/layout automatically adjusts to the screen size you’re on. This prevents you from having to constantly zoom in and out if you’re viewing a guide on a phone or tablet.
Personalized to You. The Guides are automatically grouped and shown to you based on who you are and the Plan you’re on so that you see the guides that are most relevant and useful to you. For example, if you’re a student on our free Edu Plan, you’ll be shown the student guides for our Edu Plan. If you’re a teacher, you’ll see How-to Guides (Edu Pro Plan Teachers) under your Help menu. Selecting that will navigate you to a page listing Guides for Edu Pro Teachers, which looks like this:

**How-to Guides Page displaying list of Guides for teachers on the Edu Pro Plan**

From there, you’ll see the list of guides relevant to you and can click on any of them to view the particular guide of interest.

In-App Tours

Our in-app Tours provide in-context guidance to help you understand how to use Scrible while you’re signed into your account. They walk you through key features in different interfaces of our system. Each Tour is presented as a set of steps, with each step highlighting a particular feature and showing explanatory text and, in some cases, a screenshot or animated GIF to clarify how the feature works. For example, if you want to understand how our Outline Editor works, under the Help menu atop your Library, select Tours > Outline Tab Tour.

This’ll navigate you to the Outline Editor in the Outline Tab of your Library and launch the first step of the Tour. In the top left corner, you’ll see the 1/3 in a small green box indicating that you’re on the first step of a 3 step Tour. In any Tour, you can click Next>> or <<Prev to move to the next step or previous step, respectively, in the Tour or Ok, got it to end and exit the Tour.

As with our How-to Guides, this is ongoing effort. Our library of in-app Tours will grow over time and cover more interfaces and features. Let us know what’s missing that you’d like us to cover next.

**Step 2 of 3 of the Outline Tab Tour, which walks you through the Outline Editor**

We’re excited to update these self-help and training resources. Please let us know what you think! We welcome feedback and requests for additional Guides and Tours and even other types of resources!

-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!