What is docASSIST?

docASSIST is a Google Docs Add-on whose primary feature allows teachers to create customized rubrics for their students to guide their online written assignments. The goal of docASSIST is to create an easy-to-use application to provide students with better feedback about their schoolwork while assisting teachers in organizing their assignments and gradebooks.

For additional support regarding docASSIST, please email the team at: docassist@wpi.edu

docASSIST provides many features for teachers to use, such as:

• Using your own rubric to keep track of reviews and revisions on each of your students documents
• Creating and editing a customized rubric for your students
• Reviewing the document and giving feedback by simply highlighting a section of the document and selecting the corresponding category from the rubric you created
• Persistent feedback and notes are for the student to see later if they revise the document
• Sharing custom rubrics with other docASSIST users, especially useful if there is a school-wide rubric
• Draft versioning feature, allowing you to take a snapshot of the document and save it for future reference
• Google Classroom integration, allowing teachers with a Google Classroom account to create assignments from within docASSIST and push them to their Classroom
• Archiving of unwanted rubrics for future reference

docASSIST also provides many useful features for students, such as:

• Having the rubric as part of the document so the student can easily see it while they are writing
• Viewing and responding to feedback from the reviewer use the Revise tool
• Receiving emails when documents are ready for revision after being reviewed by the teacher
• Peer reviewing other students work
• Easy assignment submission to the teacher straight from the document via the "Turn In" button