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USBE staff demonstrate Utah Compose writing tool for teachers
Summary
Utah State Board of Education staff gave a live demonstration of Utah Compose for roughly 76 teachers, covering account setup, prompt creation, the scoring engine, peer review, reporting and support resources; the system provides immediate automated feedback and teacher-controlled settings for drafts, timers and peer review.
MARIE, the Utah State Board of Education staff contact for Utah Compose, demonstrated the Utah Compose formative-writing platform in a virtual training attended by about 76 teachers. She walked teachers through account registration, assigning and editing prompts, scoring and feedback features, peer review configuration, reports and support resources.
Marie said, “Utah Compose is a formative assessment tool to help you, help your students practice and improve their writing.” She showed how the platform gives students immediate, automated feedback on spelling and grammar and provides trait scores with linked lessons for targeted remediation.
Why it matters: Utah Compose is presented as both classroom practice and test preparation; Marie said it resembles the RISE writing assessment interface for grades 5 and 8 and therefore can be used to prepare students for that statewide exam.
The demonstration covered key…
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