Short Answer + EduProtocols Webinar Recording

Thursday, September 4th, Short Answer hosted EduProtocols cofounders Marlena Hebern & Jon Corippo for a webinar on practical, classroom-ready writing activities. You can watch an edited recording below! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4-BaSyjibM&list=PLy1PKaA-lQ06XlTCDteAr_dXLru_2duIY&ab_channel=ShortAnswer Resources from the webinar Presentation slides EduProtocols overview Interactive Random Emoji in Short Answer Tutorial Interactive Battle Royale Tutorial Interactive Quick Write Tutorial Interactive Pen Pals […]
Short Answer 2024-2025 Educator Experience Case Study

Introduction Building on the momentum of its first full year in classrooms, Short Answer continued to grow in reach and deepen its impact in the 2024–2025 school year. This case study seeks to understand how educators experienced the platform in its second full school year. Using a mixed-methods approach, including interviews, in-app NPS surveys, and […]
5 Back-to-school Short Answer Updates
Team Short Answer has been hard at work this summer! We’ve got five updates to share here, along with several new features on the way. Read on to learn more and reach out to our team with any questions! 1. Updated Launch Modal When choosing an activity in Short Answer, you can now easily see the […]
Short Answer 🤝 EduProtocols

Short Answer has officially partnered with EduProtocols! We’ve long admired EduProtocols’ creative, research-based approach to teaching, and we’re teaming up to bring those ideas to life inside Short Answer. To kick things off, we’ve built one of our favorite EduProtocols—Random Emoji Power Paragraph (REPP)—right into Short Answer. It’s a simple, fun, effective activity that gets […]
Pen Pals Overview

What is Pen Pals? Pen Pals is a new Short Answer activity type where students submit writing, then debate feedback from two AI characters who disagree on how well a selected response meets each success criterion (you can preview the activity using the clickable walkthrough below). The class discusses, votes on which AI they agree […]
Quick Write Public Beta Promotion
Quick Write Overview Quick Write is Short Answer’s newest activity. Students submit a response, then receive a proficiency score and AI feedback for each success criteria. The class earns points based on proficiency scores with a cooperative goal of hitting a target class score. Students can then pair up and discuss the results together. Quick […]
Quick Write Overview

What is Quick Write? Quick Write is Short Answer’s newest activity (use the clickable walkthrough below to preview). Students submit a response, then receive a proficiency score and AI feedback for each success criteria. The class earns points based on proficiency scores with a cooperative goal of hitting a target class score. Students can then […]
Winter webinar recording and resources

At Short Answer, we work to make writing across the curriculum easy and effective through short-form, social, research-aligned writing activities for any subject. As a part of our work at Short Answer, we lead workshops with schools across the country on the adjustments that need to be made to K12 writing in the wake of […]
Short Answer Resources for Georgia Educators
Short Answer in Georgia At Short Answer, we help schools embed high quality writing practice across the curriculum through gamified writing activities for any subject. We also lead workshops with schools across the world focused on adjusting K12 writing instruction in a world in which AI can now write for students. As such, we think […]
3 tips for making Short Answer even more social
How are we going to motivate students to want to learn how to write in a world in which AI can now write for them? At Short Answer, we think about this…a lot. We discuss it in depth in our writing & AI workshops and are factoring it into the AI features we’re building now […]