If there are problems that are typical, a system like this would help deal with that and afford time to either move on to the next assignment or for me to write a response to the content instead of the structure. Go back and read what I wrote. It’s about finding a way to still engage with the students about their work and admitting that this is horribly time consuming on the teacher’s end of things.

I wonder if there’s a difference in the way universities and high schools see this part of the teacher’s job, Michelle. I have 170 students, so 170 papers to grade and I’d like to assign more of them if I can. At 5 minutes per paper, that’s 14 hours just to grade one assignment from my students. On top of everything else there is to grade. And plan. Add to that the huge number of students who aren’t getting anything from my carefully crafted comment (because the same problems manifest in future papers) and I’m wasting time that could be spent on something else more useful for the student. Anything I can do to cut down that time and still provide feedback that students will read, I’d like to take a look at.