ShortKeys

Teachers, Mentors, Instructors, Educators


Shortkeys, a text replacement tool, allows educators to focus more on their students and less on data entry and repetitive, monotonous computer tasks. Used by teachers, mentors, instructors, professors, educators, secretaries and administrators to save time.

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Grading Essays and Papers

Grading papers at any time of the year can be become repetitive and tiring. ShortKeys allows you to insert frequently used comments, critiques or praise by just typing a few letters. 

Sample shortkeys

  • ics – Incomplete sentence.
  • ppmd – Please provide more detail.
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End of Semester Grading

ShortKeys allows instructors to create shortcut abbreviations for any of the repetitive comments used with student grades. Save significant amounts of time by typing a few letters and popping in the comment.

Sample shortkeys

  • rcs – Needs to improve reading comprehension skills.
  • msi – Math skills have improved.

Email Correspondence

Frequently teachers need to correspond with students or parents via email. Much of this correspondence is repetitive in nature. Create shortkeys to reduce the amount of typing required.

Sample shortkeys

  • tdk – Thank you for your participation in the discussions this past …
  • rmr – This is a reminder that your daughter has an assignment to bring …
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Educator Comments

"Hi, love you, love you, love you. I'm a teacher and I type the same thing a 100 times a day. You are saving hours of my life. Thank you."
--Trish L., WA
"I can type in the shortkey prefix and instantly have my prepared response appear. Then, within seconds I have customized the general comment to meet a current student's question or forum response. Grading forums has also become much quicker as well."
-Dr. Brandt, AR
"I love ShortKeys for editing documents and for grading papers. It saves hours of time."
--Linda A., NY
"I cannot thank you enough for the hours this saves me every week. I am an online teacher and I grade many things over and over again. While many things are personalized, much of it is repetitive and having shortkeys has saved my sanity many days (especially at the busy term's end!). Thank you so very much!!"
--Lindsay S., AR
"ShortKeys helps me immensely with my Online teaching, especially when commenting on student discussions and when grading papers. For repetitive and frequently used sentences and paragraphs, ShortKeys can't be beat. Many thanks from a very satisfied user."
--Ken L., CA
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Bottom Line

Educators simplify online grading, comments and communications to students with ShortKeys. You’ll love how much time it saves. Save hours off of your normal workload, freeing time for leisure, more thorough grading or preparing ahead for the next semester.

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ShortKeys is a text replacement utility, but you may also call it a shortcut key, autotext, autocorrect, text expander, text inserter or fast typing tool. We call it extremely useful and beneficial.