WV Writes and OVI Rocks!

Congratulations to Kathy M. for being the first teacher to have her students using the new and improved "Writing Roadmap" site. Here is some good news: her fifth grade students had no trouble using the new WVWrites site. I enjoyed working with the 12 teachers who joined together in the Writing Lab to get classes and assignments set up for students. Together we found the site to have all the features of the old site, with some added ones. Navigation of the site takes the same path as the old site; however, some of the tabs are in a different places, which makes them difficult to see at first. The few teachers that have used the site already have all reported back to me the the site is slow to score students' work. The students are not receiving their scores; however, if you view reports as a teacher the next morning the scores and reports are available.
Updating this site: I have posted the following link for getting new students into the WVWrites site as well as some others. This link can be found under "Teacher Resource Links" and "Updating Students into Assessment Sites."
Please take time to share your positive and negative experiences with the new WV Writes site. Let's all grow together in helping our students become better writers with the use of this new assessment site.