Website Approval Request

Submitted Website Approval Request

Submitted By: kahay on 1/6/2021 12:31:01 PM
Requestor Work Location*: West Lake STEM
Requestor Title*: Kelli Hay
Website Name*: Quill
Website Description*: From the website: "Quill provides free writing and grammar activities for elementary, middle, and high school students Quill Connect Help your students advance from fragmented and run-on sentences to complex and well structured ones. Using the evidence-based strategy of sentence combining, students combine multiple ideas into a single sentence. They then receive instant feedback designed to help them improve their clarity and precision. Quill Lessons Quill Lessons enables teachers to lead whole-class and small group writing instruction. Teachers control interactive slides that contain writing prompts, and the entire class responds to each prompt. Each Quill Lessons activity provides a lesson plan, writing prompts, discussion topics, and a follow up independent practice activity. Quill Diagnostic Quickly determine which skills your students need to work on with our diagnostics. The diagnostics cover vital sentence construction skills and generate personalized learning plans based on the student’s performance."
URL (Required)*: https://www.quill.org
Purpose / Use / Notes*: Quill.org can be used with all students including Multi-Language Learners to improve grammar and writing skills. This website offers diagnostic tests for English speakers and Multi-Language Learners and provides lessons that can be assigned to students individually or as group. Individually, students can work through the lessons and are provided with hints and prompts to help them succeed and improve their writing. Teacher lessons are also provided based on the highest needs within each class and can be taught whole class or in small groups. Finally, the website offers several reports for monitoring student growth including an activity summary, activity analysis, and diagnostics for free. A premium membership, by teacher and by school, is offered and includes these additional reports - activity scores, concepts, and standards. The concept report provides a summary of each individuals perform on all writing and grammar concepts. The standards report provides information on how individuals are performing on specific common core standards. Data export is also offered. Quill abides by FERPA.
Login / Access Information for Evaluation (Do not enter sensitive password information): Go to quill.org and sign up. It is free.
Vendor Technical Contact Name:
Vendor Technical Contact Phone Number: 646-442-1095
Lower Grade Range for Website*: Kindergarten
Upper Grade Range for Software*: 12th Grade
Category*: English Language Arts, K-12
Is student data shared with the software vendor?*: Yes
Create an icon for student\staff use?*: GSD Portal

Submitted Website Review Form

Submitted By: ancameron on 1/6/2021 1:51:36 PM
District Firewall Exceptions?*: No
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iBoss Exception?*: No
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Approved*: Yes
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Submitted Educational Software Specialist Form

Submitted By: talanglie on 2/19/2021 12:53:56 PM

Content/Simulation

Instructional Content*: 2 - Shows Promise
Curriculum Connection*: 2 - Shows Promise
Teacher/Learning Approach*: 2 - Shows Promise
Age/Grade Level*: 2 - Shows Promise
Assessment*: 2 - Shows Promise
Perspective*: 2 - Shows Promise
Flexibility*: 2 - Shows Promise
Technology Effectiveness*: 2 - Shows Promise

Productivity

Curriculum Connection*: 2 - Shows Promise
Age/Grade Level*: 2 - Shows Promise
Perspective*: 2 - Shows Promise
Technical Aspects*: 2 - Shows Promise
Flexibility*: 2 - Shows Promise

Assessment

Curriculum Connection*: 3 - Strength Area
Age/Grade Level*: 2 - Shows Promise
Assessment*: 2 - Shows Promise
Perspective*: 2 - Shows Promise
Technical Aspects*: 2 - Shows Promise

Technology Effectiveness

Technology Effectiveness*: 2 - Shows Promise
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Approved*: Yes

Submitted Student Data Agreement

Submitted By: jlfisher@graniteschools.org on 2/19/2021 4:30:43 PM
Student Data Agreement in place?*: Yes

Application Technology Meta Data

Elements: IP Addresses of Users, Use of cookies, etc.
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Application Use Statistics

Elements: Meta data on user interaction with application
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Assessment

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Other Elements: Skill based assessments scores

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Student Contact Information

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Student Name

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Student In App Performance

Elements: Program/ application performance (typing program-student types 60 wpm, reading program-student reads below grade level)
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Student Work

Elements: Other student work data-Please specify
Other Elements: Responses to our questions

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Please list each additional data element used, stored, or collected by your application :

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Notes

Notes: Emperical Resolution dba Quill - DPA Executed 2/19/2021 - IP Addresses of users, use of cookies etc, Meta data on user interaction with application, Assessment (Other: skill based assessments scores), Student school enrollment, Student email (optional), Student first and/or last name, Program/application performance, Student work (Other: responses to our questions).

Submitted Final Approval Form

Submitted By: dkroberts on 2/26/2021 1:05:39 PM
Approved*: Yes
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