MyEssayFeedback is an AI-powered platform designed to enhance the essay writing process for students by providing immediate, actionable feedback. The platform uses AI to analyze essays for a variety of elements, including structure, coherence, and content relevance, aiming to provide feedback that is both insightful and constructive.

One of the key features of MyEssayFeedback is that educators can create assignments within the platform, to which students can submit their essays. The AI then evaluates the submissions and provides feedback in real-time. The feedback is often in the form of reflective questions, as you can see in this video. In all, the goal is not to give the students “rewrites,” but rather to encourage students to reflect on their writing as they revise it.

The platform stresses the importance of balancing AI feedback with human interaction, advocating for a hybrid approach. The platform is specifically designed by educators, providing targeted, constructive feedback that aligns with a teacher’s pedagogical goals.

MyEssayFeedback is available across multiple platforms and devices and integrates with Canvas and Blackboard. Currently, the cost per student per 4-month term is $15, with discounts offered for departmental or institution-wide licenses.

Tom’s Take: When I first saw “MyEssayFeedback,” I immediately assumed it was a website that rewrites student essays. Fortunately, I was wrong.

MyEssayFeedback.ai is smartly designed for educators who want to provide their students with immediate, constructive, and actionable feedback. MyEssayFeedback doesn’t rewrite or grade student essays; instead, it provides students with a series of reflective questions to assist them in revising their essays.

Ultimately, the usefulness of any AI feedback depends on the quality of the AI. MyEssayFeedback leverages Microsoft Azure, a well-respected AI platform capable of handling complex machine-learning tasks. Azure can readily adjust the complexity and depth of feedback according to the student’s educational level.

MyEssayFeedback appears geared toward university instructors and students and does not integrate with Google Classroom, a popular K-12 LMS. That said, it’s easily adaptable to secondary school classrooms and ideal for high school ELA classrooms and upper-level history classes — where essay writing is a key component of the curriculum.

Teachers can invite students to submit their essays and oversee and edit the feedback that MyEssayFeedback provides. In all, MyEssayFeedback goes a long way toward a common concern of writing teachers: how to provide quick and constructive essay feedback.

Personal feedback will always remain important, especially in creative writing courses, where AI feedback might not fully address nuanced aspects of student writing. Yet, MyEssayFeedback’s ability to facilitate swift improvements to student writing and heighten student understanding of the writing process makes it a welcome companion.