Walk-me-through the Main Features

Walk-me-through the Main Features You may have noticed the latest addition to the Virtual Writing Tutor grammar checker main page. Its a short little walkthrough of the principal features of the grammar checker for newcomers. You only get to see it twice before it disappears forever. Why did we add it? The Problem One usability issue I see again and again is my students rushing to click on the grammar checker button, forgoing all others. Why is that a problem, you ask? It is a grammar checker, after all. Simply put, the grammar checking engine works much better if you eliminate your spelling errors first because it needs to recognize the parts of speech for each word in a sentence before it can tell if your sentence has any errors in it. If you write It dont work, the system cant check for a verb agreement error if it doesnt recognize dont as a verb first. Clicking the Check spelling button, eliminating your spelling errorsin this case by adding an apostropheand then clicking Check grammar is likely to produce better results every time. As with any tool, using the Virtual Writing Tutor step-by-step will help you eliminate more errors in the long run. The Solution So, how can we get users to learn the steps to produce the best results? A little training is in order. Thats what motivated us to add this Show-Me-How walkthrough tutorial. Of course there are other features that are underused and could learners improve their writing if they only knew about them, so here are the 9 steps of the walkthrough we added to the VWT. If you follow or dismiss the walkthrough tutorial twice, it will never show again. We store a cookie in your browser to keep count. Add this feature to your website If you would like to add this Show-Me-How feature to your website, drop us a line and well send you a quote. It wont be expensive because we have done all the design, research, and testing beforehand. Youll benefit from our experience. Please follow and like us: