NoRedInk

What NoRedInk Is

NoRedInk is an online writing and grammar platform that teachers use with students in Grades 3 to 12. The homepage calls it "A comprehensive writing platform designed for today's classrooms" and says it helps teachers run writing cycles "that incorporate modeling, scaffolding, practice, and feedback." It positions itself as a complement to a school's core ELA curriculum rather than a replacement. Teachers can sign up for free, and schools and districts buy NoRedInk Premium for the full curriculum, reporting and grading tools.

The company is NoRedInk Corp. Its team page lists Jeff Scheur as Founder and CEO, and the homepage claims NoRedInk "is used in 1 in 2 US school districts."

What Students and Teachers Get

The product has a few connected parts.

Practice. Adaptive skill exercises target specific writing and grammar skills. The overview page says they "use a variety of question types to guide students from the sentence level to the paragraph level to the passage level." Students drag and drop punctuation, restructure sentences, highlight claims, evidence and reasoning, edit and mark up text, and manipulate multi-paragraph passages. Because Practice is adaptive, a student who struggles sees hints, lessons and extra questions, and one who is doing well gets harder questions.

Personal interests. Exercises are written around topics each student picks. The site says they incorporate "each student's favorite celebrities, characters, friends, pets, and other interests", and the overview page adds historical figures to that list.

Quick Writes. These are short prompts that get students writing often: skill-building prompts, text-based prompts, novel analysis prompts and prompts about hypothetical scenarios or personal memories. Teachers use them to build fluency and stamina and to check understanding of course content.

Guided Essay and Guided Short Response. These walk students through the whole writing cycle. The overview page says they free "up teachers to deliver individualized support where it's needed most", with genre-specific lessons, tutorials and exemplars along the way. The prompts span more than 10 genres, from Narrative and Expository to Persuasive and Literary Analysis, and a new Opinion Guided Essay brings the same support to Grades 4 and 5.

Self Review and Peer Review. In Self Review, students answer questions on the substance of their essay and revise with exemplars and tips. Peer Review is mastery-based and guides students to give "meaningful, actionable feedback on each other's work."

Read-Write-Reason. The site announces this as "new integrated reading and writing activities."

Assessment runs through the whole product. Planning Diagnostics, Unit Diagnostics and baseline Writing Benchmarks gauge skills at the start of a semester or unit, and Growth Quizzes and Writing Benchmarks show progress after a cycle of instruction. Exercises, writing activities and diagnostics can be filtered by state and national standards, and dashboards with diagnostic data, growth reports and gradebooks let teachers and administrators track progress in real time.

For English learners, the Language Support Suite offers single-word translations, simple definitions, translated directions and text-to-speech, plus EL standards and test prep prompts. Premium adds prompts aligned with WIDA, AZELLA and TELPAS. A newer elementary offer brings adaptive exercises, writing activities and standards-aligned diagnostics to Grades 3 to 5.

AI Grading and Originality

The AI-powered Grading Assistant scores essays and writes feedback. According to the homepage, it currently covers argumentative and literary analysis essays, with more genres rolling out, and teachers can "Reduce grading time by up to 50% while students receive 5x more written feedback." The rubrics are standards-aligned, which the site says builds consistency across classrooms. Writing Benchmarks are also AI-powered, so a school can track writing growth at scale without hand-grading every benchmark.

Originality Insights shows how long a student spent writing and highlights text pasted from outside sources, so a teacher can judge academic integrity with evidence rather than guesswork.

Free Versus Premium

The Why Premium page compares the two versions. The free version has limited writing and grammar skills, limited Quick Write prompts, and limited Guided Draft prompts in three genres. Premium has 1,000+ skills, 2,000+ Quick Write prompts and 400+ Guided Draft prompts across 10+ genres. The same table lists the AI-powered Grading Assistant, Originality Insights, state test-specific filters, prompts and rubrics, school and district benchmark assessments, and the Schoology, Canvas and Clever integrations as part of Premium.

Premium also brings test prep with released prompts and rubrics from the ACT, SAT, AP English Language exam and state tests, and enhanced reports on license usage, student activity and rostering. Its LMS integration lets teachers create NoRedInk assignments inside Canvas or Schoology, assign them from those rosters and sync scores back to the gradebook. Single sign-on, rostering and assignment sharing work through ClassLink, Clever, Google Classroom and Infinite Classroom. Training includes live professional development, self-paced virtual training and Premium-only webinars, and Premium customers get priority support and a Customer Success team.

There is no public price. Schools request a quote through the "Get a quote!" form. The page is explicit about who can buy: "NoRedInk Premium is only available for purchase by schools and districts at this time." Homeschool teachers are pointed to a help article on using the free version, and parents are told that a child who uses NoRedInk at school can also use it at home.

Results the Site Reports

The Why Premium page lists three headline results, each with a "Learn more" link: "+136% Increase in the number of economically disadvantaged students in the highest performance tier on state tests", "+6 points Average growth on the ACT® English Test", and "-50% Reduction in grading time achieved by teachers using NoRedInk's AI-powered Grading Assistant". These are the company's own figures.

Teacher testimonials are specific. Jo Rohde, a teacher at North Dallas High School, writes that "Students start each concept at their own level and learn at their own pace". Kecia Waddell, a special education teacher at Stevenson High School, says, "For my students with learning disabilities, NoRedInk has reduced barriers to critical skill development in grammar and written expression." Travis Willard, associate principal at Randall High School, calls "The ability to individualize instruction, introduce new concepts, and reinforce learned skills within a single online platform" fantastic. Danielle Mogan at Circleville High School says Premium "gives my students the foundation they need".

Who It Suits

NoRedInk fits ELA teachers from upper elementary through high school who want students writing and practicing grammar more often than they can grade by hand. A single teacher can start with the free version, try the adaptive exercises and Quick Writes, and bring the school in later. Schools and districts that care about state test results, English learner support and consistent grading across classrooms get the most from Premium, with its benchmarks, test prep and reporting.

There are two caveats. Premium is sold only to schools and districts, so homeschool families and tutoring organizations cannot buy it and are pointed to the free version. And it is a practice and writing platform that sits beside a core curriculum, so a school still needs its own reading list and lesson plan around it.