Quill

As a student with a teacher who loves organization, He keeps a checklist for us to do on a daily with Quill being the first activity. I have spent multiple miserable hours on this site with little to no actual grammar information on how my writing could be improved. For example, one sentence I was given was "That vegetarian pizza is for Samuel and me/I, but you can have some of the pepperoni pizza." Pronoun choices are me and I respectively. Following the rules of grammar I personally was taught, I put in I and got a wrong answer. It told me to "Pretend Samuel isn't in the sentence!" which does NOT help at all when it comes to real life scenarios. When will I ever have to think "Hm, what if this wasn't in the sentence?" NEVER. All I learned from quill across my 9 hours and 47 minutes on it was broken English that sounds like it came straight from a toddler. Oh, and that "Personalized Learning" advertisement? BULL$#*!. Quill is nothing but a product of the trashy AI that major "educational" platforms use to generalize students into one big lump of mushy flesh.

Quill.org is absolutely terrible. I don't know how this platform manages to get any positive reviews, because my experience with it has been nothing short of frustrating and pointless. First off, the user interface is an absolute disaster. It looks like something from the early 2000s, and it's so clunky that it feels like I'm using a program from a bygone era. Navigating the site is a nightmare, and there are constant glitches that make completing assignments a tedious chore.

But that's just the beginning. The lessons themselves are extremely basic and offer no real depth or value. They claim to help students improve their writing, but all I got was surface-level feedback that didn't address any of the real issues in my writing. The "personalized" experience they advertise is laughable—it's generic at best. The platform seems to treat every student as if they're at the exact same skill level, and there's no real progression or tailored instruction.

What's worse is the way Quill.org constantly pushes its outdated, one-size-fits-all approach, without any real support for individual learning needs. It's frustrating to see how little thought has gone into making this platform genuinely helpful for students. Every lesson feels like a waste of time, and I can't help but feel like I've learned more from reading a random blog post than from using this platform for hours.

I've tried to make the most out of it, but honestly, Quill.org is a huge letdown. It's not just ineffective—it's actively annoying to use. Save yourself the headache and look for any other resource that actually cares about improving writing skills. This platform isn't it.

This stupid robot always has something to say. I can't say anything because these lazy fat meanies keep removing my responses.

It gave me 100 folders, has me type stuff that should be able to be dragged into boxes, auto capitalizes stuff that SHOULDN'T BE CAPITALIZED
Than tells me I made a capitalization error

I don't need to know how to address the president, or how to use pronouns. Quill shouldn't be used in classrooms! Kids agree and it sucks when I have an F because of it. I say no more quill, I'd rather use real life tools instead of quill. Honestly if you think its a good thing in your class think again, your kids will despise you for it and you should rather use something other than quill.

Quill.org is horrible, you have to rewrite the entire sentence just to change one thing but you just copy the sentence and then forget you have to change anything and then you get it wrong. Also when you don't put a period, you get the entire thing wrong. It is literally just a worse no red ink, if I could give negative stars, I would.

Quill goes far beyond simple grammar lessons. Quill allows my students to write thoughtfully and completely. The knowledge that they gain allows them to become the writers I know they can be. If you are looking for a revising and editing tool, you found it! If you are also looking for a guide to better writing and motivation your students need to feel like actual writers, this is also the tool for you!

Quill will mark you down for the tiniest mistakes. If you make 1 spelling mistake, then you get it wrong. I am a student and I want to get a 100%, so I have to keep going back, and back. It is really not fun and really angers students. It gives us anxiety and can be way too time consuming. I am a fifth grader and I would definitely not recommend these to assign to students like me. Never, never, never use it!

Students begin the semester with a diagnostic and work through lessons each week. I work with small groups or one on one with students on the previous week's practice. Students also work together reviewing their strengths and weakness. I really loved the new reading and writing with supporting evidence--especially the feedback provided within each assignment.

I have been using Quill for three months with my virtual 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students. I use the free version only, and I am able to assign diagnostics that place students where they are in terms of grammar skills. My students are all virtual, and this program has helped them improve their overall grammar. Even parents have shared that they see improvements in their students' writing skills.
The only negative I have is that the website can be somewhat confusing in terms of which data to find where and how. Given that I only use the free version, I'm not able to access some data, but the data I do have access to is very valuable. It took a while for me to easily navigate the platform because there's so much to view and use.