Some of our webtexts contain writing templates, designed to guide students through the process of completing their assignments.

Students complete assignments by responding to each prompt in the templates. As they work through the templates, their work is saved automatically. When they’re ready to add their work to their assignment, they will click the Add button.

If students haven’t completed each portion of the template, the Add button will not be clickable. It will appear in a lighter color until the template is complete.

Students can also change their responses after they’ve clicked Add by clicking the Edit button. They’ll just need to click the Add button again after making their changes to make sure their updated work is added to their assignment.

Some webtexts include revision templates, where students update the work they completed in previous templates. Once students begin their revision process on these templates, their previous templates lock and can no longer be edited. This prevents work being edited in multiple places and creating conflicting drafts.

If a student tries to edit a locked template, they will be directed to the revision template.

Depending on the webtext, some templates include a citation tool that allows students to quickly add in-text citations to their work. After clicking the part of the sentence where they’d like to place the in-text citation, students click the Add Citation button at the top of the template.

They will then choose the source they’d like to cite and respond to the prompts that follow.

Once they’ve responded to each of the prompts, the Create Citation button will become clickable.

The citation will then appear in the writing template.

If students would like to make a change to their citation, they can click on the citation and the box with citation options will reappear, allowing them to make new selections. Clicking the X button in the citation will remove it from the template.

Writing templates must be completed in order. If students do not complete the templates in order, they’ll see a message directing them back to the previous template that needs to be completed before they can move on.

A template is only considered complete once the student has clicked the Add button, so an “incomplete” template could refer to a template they’ve filled out but haven’t yet added to their assignment.

When the time comes to download an assignment, students will see a Download button in their template. Clicking the Download button will save the document to their device, likely in the Downloads folder.

If the Download button isn’t visible, they’ll need to click the Add button first.

Students can then review, edit, and submit the downloaded assignment.

If students would like to quickly find the templates in their webtext, they can view the Index of Writing Templates at the bottom of the webtext’s Table of Contents. The Index of Writing Templates has a list of every template in the webtext and the page number where it is located, as well as the location of every download button.

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