Allow New Zealand/British spelling
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Katie Moylan
Hi everyone—the initial update to the Evidence tool is now live! If you/your students come across specific terms that continue to flag as spelling errors, please send me an email at katie (at) quill (dot) org and I will follow up!
Hilary Rodley
I agree, I came here to ask about this too. Any updates on when this will be available?
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Katie Moylan
Thank you for sharing this feedback! I'm working on a list of spelling updates to better reflect the variety of Englishes that our users are bringing to activities, and hope to have those in production within the next couple of weeks—hopefully this won't continue to be a pain point for your students as we enter the new school year!
I've tried to capture all of the major differences that I anticipate will show up in students' writing; however, as I'm most familiar with American English, there are almost certainly words that I've missed. If you come across specific terms that are being flagged by our spelling algorithm, please feel free to drop a note here or reach out to me directly at katie [at] quill [dot] org. Thanks again for taking the time to help us better support students and teachers!
Hilary Rodley
Katie Moylan: I agree, I came here to ask about this too. Any updates on when this will be available?
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Katie Moylan
Hilary Rodley: Thanks for following up on this, and for your patience. I've shared a list of common terms with spelling differences with our Engineering team, and will update here once those changes are live!
This initial update will only apply to our Evidence tool. Longer term, we're exploring sustainable ways to ensure that all of our tools accept students' correctly-spelled responses in a wider range of Englishes—once we're able to implement this larger shift, we will let users know!
Carrie Croft
Yes please!