Teacher Toolshed Pure Writer

No. 01

Set Up a Writing Task

Build the task, get a link, share it with your class. Students identify themselves when they open it — no roster or student names go in this link.

Task Details

Used in the exported filename.

Shown centered on the page, MLA style.

Prompt & Passage
Time & Length
Writing Conditions
Block pasting
Blocks paste, drag-and-drop, and right/middle-click paste. A student's own copied text is still allowed back in.
Allow spellcheck / autocorrect
Off by default, so the mistakes students genuinely make are visible.
Lock editor when time expires
The editor becomes read-only at zero. Exporting stays available either way — a student is never locked in with text they can't get out.

Turning off spellcheck/autocorrect suppresses the browser's own checking and most extensions — it can't guarantee a device has no other assistance installed.