Draft Coach is a tool developed by Turnitin that helps UAB students improve their academic writing and research skills by providing instant feedback on citation issues, grammar mistakes, and potential plagiarism as they write in Microsoft Word for the web only.
Note: This feature is only available to UAB students but not for instructors.
Note for users of screen readers: letters in parentheses in the instructions refer to corresponding areas on example images. If you have any questions about these instructions, contact Learning Technologies for assistance.
Adding Draft Coach to Word online
- Go to Home (A) and click on Add-ins (B). Search for ‘Draft Coach’ in the Search Bar (C). Verify that Draft Coach has been found, then Add (D) the extension.
- Go to Turnitin tab (E) on the menu bar and click on Draft coach (F) to access it. Draft coach allows students to do Similarity checks, Citation checks, and Grammar checks (G).
- Draft coach allows three similarity checks per document. The overall similarity is generated, and sources are listed under Similarity tab (H).
- Draft coach provides unlimited Citation check (I), and Grammar checks (J) for every document.
Guides/Tutorials
FAQ
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Draft Coach is not found when searching for Add-Ins?
Only the online version of Word can use Draft Coach. The tool is not available for the desktop version.
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Is Draft Coach available for Google Docs?
UAB Draft Coach is not available for Google Docs.