Class Writing Feedback helps you review and share rubric-aligned feedback on student essays. Instead of reviewing essays one by one, you can review an entire class at once.
✅ What You Can Do
Review individual essays
See how each student's essay performed based on your rubric
View evidence supporting the scoring
Edit feedback before sharing with students
View class-level insights
Access a dashboard showing overall class performance
Review insights, strengths, areas for growth, next steps, and celebrations
Choose feedback types
Select which types of feedback to view and send to students:
Glows & Grows — Strengths and areas for improvement
Next Steps — Guidance for future assignments
Score Breakdown — Rubric-based scoring
⚙️ How to Use Class Writing Feedback
Create an assignment
Add your essay description, rubric, and feedback preferences.
Select student essays from Google Drive or OneDrive
Review the generated feedback
Check the feedback for each essay and review the class dashboard.
Adjust scores and edit feedback as needed
Approve feedback
Approved feedback is added directly to each student's Google Doc or OneDrive document.
📊 Understanding the Class Dashboard
After feedback is generated, the class dashboard gives you a full picture of how your class performed and what to do next.
Insights Snapshot
The Insights Snapshot gives you an overall AI-generated summary of class performance. From there you can dig into:
Strengths — what the class did well across essays
Areas for Growth — patterns in where students struggled
Celebrations — standout moments and progress to acknowledge
Click "View all insights" to see the full breakdown across all three areas.
Class Average Score
The class average score shows overall performance as a percentage and raw score. Click "View grade breakdown" to see how scores are distributed across rubric categories.
Chat About Your Results
Have questions about what you're seeing? Click "Chat about results" to open an AI conversation directly tied to your class data. You can ask it to:
Spot patterns across student writing
Identify growth areas to address in your next lesson
Flag students who may need additional support
💡 Tip: The chat is grounded in your actual class data — so questions like "Which students struggled most with organization?" or "What was the most common error?" will return specific, actionable answers.
Recommended Next Steps
Below the insights, MagicSchool suggests next steps based on your class's writing feedback. These vary depending on what the AI identifies from your results, but may include suggestions such as:
A Student Room pre-configured with a targeted practice activity
A Lesson Plan for a reteach based on areas for growth
A Worksheet Generator activity aligned to what your class needs to practice
Each suggestion is ready to open and use instantly — no need to start from scratch.
🎥 Video Walkthrough
Watch a full walkthrough of Class Writing Feedback: