Location: The composing space

The composing space

As an instructor, you use the composing space to comment on and recommend remediation in the context of each student's writing. When you select a composition or collaboration submission to grade, it opens in the composing space, where you can enter comments, check for copied content, or return the assignment to the student for a rewrite. You can also access the composing space in student view and create your own documents. To do this, click the Composing tab and then click the Student View option.Composing

The main components of the composing space are the buttons and options at the top of the space, the text editor, and the toolkit.

The composing space automatically saves your work after a set period of time, but save your work frequently just as you would in any word processor. Especially save an open document before walking away from the computer, texting, checking tweets—it is easy for a distraction that might take just a minute to take an hour. When you return, save the document again.

Maximize your use of the composing space

To ensure that you maximize your use of the composing space, use a supported browser. Although an unsupported browser might seem to work, you may experience display problems or loss of data when you save a document in the composing space.

For information on system requirements including supported operating systems, browsers, and multimedia components, go to the System Requirements page on your MyLab's website.