Make room for good writing.

Set a short writing task, then try it yourself as a student before anyone else sees it. You will learn how the settings shape what students see and try the editor they write in.

Create an educator account and an institution so you can start setting writing assessments. You need access to your work email. You must be over 18 and not a student.

Let students join an assessment you have saved for testing, then copy its invitation, link or code for your class.

Clarify a live assessment and send the new instructions to students who can still work on it, without replacing their starting rules or saved writing.

Set a timed exam with a fixed writing time for each student and preparation instructions they can read before starting. Save it for testing before sharing it with your class.

You can see where your Inktrail account is signed in and end a session on a device you no longer use, while staying signed in on this one.

Invite another teacher to join your institution on Inktrail. You need to be signed in to your educator account.

Impersonate an educator to see their assessment dashboard while helping with a support request, then return to your admin account.

Look up what each assessment setting controls and what your students will see. Use this reference while you prepare a task, especially when you choose deadlines, writing rules and timed instructions.

Use Your Assessments to find a task by its dates, then open it to see which student work needs your attention. The dashboard separates tasks you have not shared from those students can join. Inside an assessment, the work groups separate submissions to review from work you have already reviewed.

Choose writing rules that match your assessment without mistaking a policy statement for an automatic check. Your AI and citation rules tell students what you expect. Writing-assistant restrictions are best effort. Late-work settings control when students can write and submit, but you apply any marking penalty yourself.

Use the code your teacher gives you to sign in and add an assessment to your works. You can then find it again when you are ready to write.

Finish your response and send your teacher a saved submission. You need to be signed in and have already joined an assessment that is open for writing.

If your teacher asks you to upload your work to your school's learning management system (LMS), download the PDF of your submitted work from Inktrail. After uploading it to your LMS, return to Inktrail to record your confirmation.

Read the instructions before you start your timer, then write with your remaining time in view.

Know when your writing is saved and what a paste warning means, so you can protect your work and credit your sources.

Sign out everywhere if you left Inktrail open on a shared computer. This also signs you out of the device you are using now.