The Writing Response activity type lets students respond using a rich text editor instead of a whiteboard. Teachers can add multiple text and/or image sources for students to reference as they write.
What Is a Writing Response Activity?
Students type their answers in a rich text editor.
Teachers can add source materials (articles, excerpts, or images) to support the writing prompt.
Snorkl’s AI can provide feedback and celebrate revisions as students improve their writing.
This activity type is perfect for writing prompts, evidence-based reasoning, and literacy-based tasks (as well as CER and DBQ type questions).
How to Create a Writing Response Activity
Click Create Activity
From your Snorkl dashboard, select the “Create Activity” button in the top-right.
This opens a menu of activity types you can create.
Give you activity a name in the title box
Select Writing Response as the response type.
In the Prompt box, enter your question or writing task.
(Optional) Click Add Source to include one or more reference materials.
You can:
Paste or type text directly into the source.
Upload or paste images.
Copy text or visuals from PDFs or Google Docs.
💡 Pro tip: Paste your content into text editor first to format it neatly, then copy and paste it into Snorkl.
Click the purple “Generate from Question” button to set up AI feedback settings.
Review or edit the AI-generated prompt and answer key.
Assign the activity to your class or preview it as a student.
Student View
When students open a Writing Response activity, they will:
See the prompt on the left and their text editor on the right.
Type their responses directly in the rich text editor.
Tab between sources to view multiple references.
Use the read-aloud feature for sources, if needed.
Collapse the prompt to focus on their writing.
