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October 8, 2018 By scrible

Scrible Revamps Google Docs Add-on

We’ve totally revamped Scrible Writer, our Google Docs Add-on that helps you bring your research into the writing process in Google Docs. It’s now faster and let’s you view and insert your outline and more easily view and edit your bibliography.

Wait. What’s Scrible Writer again?

To recap, Scrible Writer is our powerful writing companion for Google Docs. Here’s an excerpt showing the previous version of Scrible Writer from our general Scrible Edu demo video (which’ll be updated to reflect recent product changes):

Scrible Writer requires and works with your Scrible account. You can find and install it in your Google Docs account via the G Suite Marketplace or by searching for it within Google Docs under Add-ons > Get add-ons…. Once you’ve installed it, it’ll always appear as one of your add-ons under the Add-ons menu. Whenever you want to use Scrible Writer, simply select it from that menu to load it as a Sidebar that’ll appear to the right of your Doc. That Sidebar represents a slimmed down version of your Scrible Library so that you have easy access to your research while writing a paper. The first time you load Scrible Writer, you’ll need to connect it to your Scrible account.

Previously, Scrible Writer contained your Library’s sources so you could easily browse and full-text search your Library from within a Google Doc while writing your paper. You could click on an annotated passage or comment shown in the Sidebar to add it to your paper. Annotated passages could be inserted as quotes in the Doc and their corresponding in-text citations were automagically inserted too. The citations were also as added to your Bibliography, which was automagically maintained and inserted on the last page of your Doc so you can spend less time on tedious manual formatting and more time crafting your brilliant paper!

Access to the various Scrible Writer features depends on which Scrible plan you’re on. You get a lot in a free plan (Basic or Edu), but of course you get much more if you’re on a paid plan (Edu Pro).

Awesome! Now, what’s new?

First, we’ve re-engineered how Scrible Writer works with Google Docs so that inserting quotes is much faster now.

Second, we’ve updated the interface to a new tabbed layout.  Edu Pro users will see 3 tabs – Sources, Outline and Bibliography.

The Sources Tab works as Scrible Writer worked before. Browse and search your sources and annotations. Click to insert annotations as quotes into the Google Doc and the corresponding in-text citation is inserted as well and your Bibliography is automagically updated in the background.

The Bibliography Tab (available to Edu and Edu Pro users) replaces the previous Bibliography Preview Window that used to float over the Doc when you clicked the previous red Bibliography Button in the Sidebar. That Button is now gone.  You can simply click on the Bibliography Tab to view the current state of your Bibliography at any time. You can change the citation style for your paper here (e.g. from MLA to APA).  You can review what sources are in your bibliography and remove sources or edit their details right in the sidebar.  For Edu Pro users, all changes are synced in real time back to the Bibliography Tab in your Library. Nice!

 

The Outline Tab (available to Edu Pro users) allows you to view the outline you created in the Outline Tab of your Scrible Library.  You can click the Insert Link to insert the entire outline into the Doc, including in-text citations that accompany quotes. You can also click the Edit Link to navigate back to the Outline Tab in your Library, where you can edit the outline.

 

You’ll also notice a new Status Icon to the left of the Sources Tab. This Status Icon will let you know if your bibliography and in-text citations in the Doc are out of date.  If you change your bibliography via the Bibliography Tab in your Library or update the citation details for any of the sources cited in the Doc, the Status Icon will change from a green checkmark to a red exclamation mark ().  Clicking this will trigger Scrible Writer to refresh your in-text citations and the bibliography on the last page of your Doc.  This refresh also happens in the background automatically every time you insert a quote/citation into the Doc. While this is happening, the Status Icon appears as a syncing yellow spinner icon and then turns into the green check mark. Powerful stuff!

 

We think these updates make Scrible Writer much easier to use.  Let us know if you have any questions or run into problems!

— The Scrible Team

 

Filed Under: Enhancements, Product Tagged With: bibliography, google docs add-on, outline

April 13, 2016 By Victor Karkar

scrible Edu Launches to Support Student Research & Writing with Analytics & Google Integrations (Press Release)


scrible Edu logoOnline research platform provider scrible launches scrible Edu, a new ed tech product that streamlines the student research and writing process with GAFE integrations and gives educators visibility into that workflow with rich data.


SAN MATEO, CA – APRIL 13, 2016

google_partnersscrible, the leading innovator in online research technology and a Google for Education Partner, has launched scrible Edu, a new education product that streamlines the student research and writing process and gives educators unprecedented visibility into that workflow for personalized learning.

scrible offers a Web application that allows Internet users to richly annotate webpages in the browser and manage and collaborate on them online. CEO Victor Karkar explains, “This launch adds a new emphasis on writing. We’re extending the strength of our online research platform into the writing realm. We’re helping students write better papers faster and helping educators support the modern information literacy skills students need for college and career success.”

scrible Edu offers students 1-Click Citations, 1-Click Bibliographies, Google Drive integration and a Google Docs Add-on for free. It also includes free classroom capabilities for educators, including class structure, Class Libraries and Google Classroom Sync. Upgrading to the paid Edu Pro tier offers assignment and analytics features that support personalized learning.

Phil Kim, Innovation Manager at KIPP Bay Area Schools, says, “The integration of Google Docs and Classroom made the process of transition to scrible Edu seamless. Victor and the scrible Team have been exceptionally responsive to the feedback our teachers and students have, and they’ve gone above and beyond to ensure that scrible’s platform is user-centered.”

1-Click Citations and Bibliographies enable simple citation capture and bibliography creation. Google Drive integration and the scrible Writer Google Docs Add-on allow a student to bring their research into a paper as google_drivegoogle_docs_add-onthey’re writing in Google Docs. They can search their scrible Library for annotations (e.g. notes & highlights) and citations from within a Google Doc and view them alongside the paper. They can click to insert the annotations into the paper as quotes with accompanying in-text citations. The citations and bibliography are automatically managed, compiled and appended to the Doc.

Chad O’Connor, History and English Language Arts (ELA) Teacher at the Kensington Creative and Performing Arts High Shool (KCAPA) in Philadelphia, says, “I am excited for my American History students who will use scrible’s new Google Docs infusion for their Sophomore Research Projects. Because students can export all of their annotations to a Google Doc in their Drive, it creates an efficient process for drafting essays AND facilitates a smoother transition for me in teaching them the key skills of paraphrasing and citing sources.”

google_classroomClass structure enables activities in scrible Edu to mirror real world courses and sections. Google Classroom Sync lets educators easily sync their class rosters with scrible Edu to get started quickly and without manual student data entry. Each class/section automatically gets a Class Library, which educators and students can use to share curated articles for research sources, close reading exercises and class discussions.

scrible Edu Pro allows educators to create novel research project and paper assignments. Students can annotate and save sources to an assignment-specific Library and submit it for review. As a result, teachers can access a rich collection of student work and see how students organize information (using tags), read closely (using annotations), etc.

Teachers can set goals for those projects and papers (e.g. number of sources to collect or cite, number of words in the paper, etc.) and track student progress toward those goals and overall assignment completion at the class and individual student level using a real-time data dashboard. These analytics empower teachers with data to support each student with personalized guidance and intervention. Educators can see where each student is at any given time in the research and writing process and where they get stuck.

Class-level analytics showing the progress of students completing a research paper assignment
Class-level analytics showing the progress of students completing a research paper assignment

Ann Terry, Librarian at Lone Star High School in Frisco, Texas, explains, “Teachers are thrilled to be able to see the progress of their students as they view and save sources. scribe Edu gives our teachers a window into their students’ research process that they’ve never had before. scrible has changed the way Lone Star High School does online research.”

As a part of the launch, CEO Victor Karkar will present scrible Edu in Southern California this week at the Leadership 3.0 Symposium, an annual gathering of K12 administrators focused on “Educational Leadership for the 21s Century”. The Symposium is hosted by the Association of California School Administrators (ACSA), Computer Using Educators, Inc. (CUE) and Technology Information Center for Administrative Leadership (TICAL).

For more information, email press(at)scrible(dot)com or visit https://scrible.wpengine.com

Filed Under: Events, New Features, Product Tagged With: acsa, add-on, analytics, assignments, classroom, cue, data, docs, edu, educator, google, google classroom, google docs, google docs add-on, personalized learning, reading, research, scrible, scrible edu, student, teacher, writing

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