Writefull
- Support students during their writing process
- Spend less time correcting errors
- Monitor your students’ academic language skill
- Get insight in which language aspects need attention
- Limited to English only
Using the dashboard functionality
Together with VU Amsterdam, Writefull developed a dashboard that can be used to monitor academic language skills. We made a step by step guide for you how to get access to students' dashboards and how to use the functionality.
Download documentWritefull for Word
Writefull offers a user guide for Writefull for Word. It helps you to use all the features that Writefull for Word offers: Sentence Palette, Language Search, Title Generator and Paraphraser. Moreover it explains the Check Document and Check Paragraph function and the Proofread and Full Edit mode.
Go to the site Links to an external site.Writefull for Overleaf
Writefull offers a user guide for Writefull for Overleaf. It helps you to use all the features that Writefull for Overleaf offers: Sentence Palette, Language Search, Title Generator, Paraphraser and Abstract Generator. Moreover it explains the Language Check function and the premium feature TexGPT.
Go to the site Links to an external site.Video: 1:12 min. Want a quick demonstration of Writefull (including the dashboard functionality) at VU Amsterdam? Then watch this video to get rundown of what to expect.
If you cannot find your question here, try to find it in the FAQ.
Learning to write English with Writefull
Download this page to receive practical teaching tips on how to use this tool to learn (your students) English (scientific) writing.
Download documentPlease help us collect idea’s how to use this tool in an didactic effective manner. If you have an interesting example to share, or if you come across an example worth sharing, please send an e-mail to onderwijswerkplaats@vu.nl Your help is much appreciated.
The VU privacy statement for Writefull
VU Amsterdam has a contract and a data processing agreement with the supplier. These contain all kinds of provisions that prohibit the supplier from using personal data of VU employees and VU students for their own purposes (such as reselling).
There are also a variety of security agreements in the agreement about when employees of the supplier may view data (almost never) that enters the application and what the supplier must do to minimize the chance that third parties can view or change data.
Additionally, VU Amsterdam enforced specific security settings to prevent other institutions or companies access to the VU data.
Writefull is configured at VU Amsterdam in such a way that no information of students is processed via Writefull itself.
All Writefull products encrypt all communications end-to-end between computers and servers. The servers do not store any texts or searches done by users, and text written in Word or uploaded to Writefull Revise/Cite never reaches our hard drive. For privacy reasons, accepted suggestions by students and researchers are not used to improve algorithms.
Writefull uses Google Compute and its servers are located in the EU (The Netherlands), meeting the ISO norms. Writefull’s SSL certificates are renewed every 90 days.
To guarantee the privacy and security, of teachers and students, it is important that you use this tool with a VU account instead of a private account.
Description of the processing
Writefull will be processing texts that users (students and researchers) write within Writefull for Word while they have the Writefull add-in installed and active. Texts are sent to Writefull’s servers and returned with language edits in-place. This happens in working memory; texts are not stored.
In addition, Writefull will be collecting information (metrics) about the type of language edits made by each user, and these will be collected in a dashboard. These data are stored on Writefull’s servers.
The email addresses and hashed passwords of users of Writefull for Word (students) and of the dashboard (students and teachers) will be stored on Writefull’s servers in order to provide login access.
Processing objectives
The personal data will be processed by Writefull on behalf of the VU with the following objectives:
- give language feedback to students
- collect metrics of language feedback given to students (i.e., the type of edits given by Writefull)
- allow students to log in to Writefull for Word and their dashboard
- allow teachers to log in to the dashboard and invite students to it
Categories of data subjects
The personal data of the following categories of data subjects will be processed by Writefull:
- students (users of Writefull and their dashboard)
- teachers (users of the dashboard)
(Categories of) Personal data
The following (categories) of personal data will be processed by Writefull:
- students’ email addresses
- students’ academic texts
- teachers’ email addresses
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