Kaizena feedback continues to grow and develop into an ever more useful tool for teachers. Today they launched tags. Now teachers can tag comments in student writing to help identify trends and track growth over the semester.
What can you do with tags? Here are some great ideas from the Kaizena blog.
- Track and rate skills - tags can be rubric criteria, common core standards, your local state, region, or country’s standards, learning objectives or outcomes...anything.
- The first time you type in a tag, we save it for future re-use. <screenshot>
- Every tag gets a rating. You can change the tag’s rating levels to match, say, your rubric levels. <animated gif>
- After you’ve tagged a highlight, add a voice comment, type a text comment, or add a resource. Or any combination. <animated gif>
- Save feedback for future use
- Remember that voice comment you just made? Save it to the tag, and every time you use that tag in the future, it will reappear. You can even save multiple voice comments or a combination of voice comments, text comments and resources to a tag (psst: tags get really powerful in combination with resources). <animated gif>
- Skill summary
- If you made five “transition” tags with different ratings, then “transition” would appear in the summary as an average of those ratings. <screenshot> This is like a rubric summary, but smarter: students can click on each tag in the summary and see the evidence for the score they received <animated gif>
Voice comments saved educators time while enabling better student outcomes , and tags continue this legacy:
Better student outcomes
- Knowledge of strengths and weaknesses is a prerequisite for improvement
- Transparency: showing the evidence behind a rubric score builds trust between educators and students
Save time
- Re-use your feedback
- Get rubric criteria out of your head as you read
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