Working groups

A working group is a group of Wordscope users. A working group you create lets you open every project the students in that group create, and leave a comment on a segment, without collecting a separate link from each student.

When your academic programme is approved, Wordscope creates a working group named Students. On the project creation page, Students is already selected.

All the students you assign a licence to are added automatically to the Students working group. If you teach different classes, you can create other working groups yourself, such as Class BA1 or Class MA2, and add a different list of student email addresses to each group.

Tell your students which working group to select for the exercise. If the exercise stays in Students, say so. If you created Class BA1 or Class MA2, tell them that name and ask them to select it before they upload the file. A project left on Personal stays on the student’s own list, so it will not show up with the class projects.

The steps to create a group, add email addresses, select the group on the project creation page, or move a project later are in Working groups (Wordscope TEAM).

In a Wordscope TEAM working group, every member can open the other members’ projects. On Campus, only the professor can open the students’ projects in a group the professor created. Students see their own projects.

See who owns the project

When you open a student’s project, look at the top of the page, under the file name. The line Project owner: shows the student’s name. On a project you created yourself, that line is not shown.

[Screenshot: top of the project page, under the file name, with Project owner: and the student’s name]

Comment on a student’s segment

Once the student’s project is in your working group, you can comment on a segment. The student receives an email with a link that opens that comment.

To comment on a segment:

1️⃣ Open List Projects / Open.

2️⃣ Open the Choose Working Group menu at the top right.

3️⃣ Select the group for the exercise, for example Students or Class BA1.

4️⃣ Open the student’s project.

5️⃣ Check Project owner: at the top of the page, under the file name.

6️⃣ On the segment, click the comment icon (Add comment).

7️⃣ Write the comment in Write a comment...

8️⃣ Click Comment.

The speech bubble in the editor toolbar (View comments) lists the comments already in the project.