Grammarly is a grammar and mechanics checker that can be used by faculty to help students understand what they’ve done wrong in their papers and to give students examples of grammar and mechanics. To use Grammarly, simply select Course Tools on the Control Panel and Grammarly. You will see a list of assignments in the course you’re teaching. If students have made attempts to the assignments, you’ll see a list of students’ names. If you select a student’s name, Grammarly will sometimes allow you to automatically evaluate that paper. Grammarly has restrictions based on file types, so this method sometimes works and sometimes does not. In most cases, select Review My Text. A new window will open. Open a student paper and select the text of the paper. For the purposes of this tutorial, we will only select a paragraph to review. Paste in the text. Select how you would like to review the paper based on what type of document it is. For this tutorial, we’ll select Research Paper. Select Start Review. The length of time it takes to review is based on the length of the selected text section. Once Grammarly has reviewed the paper, students will be able to see explanations on what they’ve done wrong and why, and even go in and make improvements right here if they’d like to. You can save this report as a .pdf file and submit it to the student to review. You can send the report directly to the student if you have the student’s email, but the preferred manner is to copy the URL to this report and paste it inside a Blackboard feedback box. This allows students to not only get feedback on the content or the rubric that’s given, but also gives them a link to review their paper and talk about improvements. Grammarly is a simple but very powerful and helpful tool!