Dictate in any app · Education
Grading feedback is where teaching time goes, and most of it is typed twice. Typally types what you say straight into Canvas — hold a key, talk, let go — so you can dictate anywhere Canvas lets you type.
Yes, we build Typally. That is also why the section on Canvas's built-in option is honest: people who switch after trying both are the ones who stay.SpeechGrader-style audio feedback exists in Canvas — you can leave a recorded comment. That is audio the student must play, not text they can reread while revising.
An instructor with a hundred and twenty submissions writes a hundred and twenty comments. Written properly each takes minutes; written at volume they collapse into 'good work' and the student learns nothing.
In practice people use it for: Assignment feedback, rubric comments, announcements, discussion replies, and module descriptions.
There is no Canvas extension or add-in involved — Typally behaves like a very fast keyboard:
Install, sign in, and it waits in the tray.
Click first. Typally types into Canvas wherever the caret already is, with no idea what that field is for.
Push to talk, say your piece, release to transcribe.
Canvas's SpeedGrader moves to the next submission quickly. Confirm the comment saved before advancing, or a dictated paragraph goes nowhere.
Typally types into SpeedGrader's comment box and rubric fields, so three sentences of specific feedback costs about the same as typing 'good work'. Students get text they can search and reread rather than an audio comment they play once. It works the same in announcements and discussion replies from the same key.
An instructor marking a hundred essays gives each one three sentences of specific feedback instead of a single adjective. The marking takes about the same total time, and the second assignment shows students actually acted on it.
Dictate feedback as text rather than recording audio comments. Students can reread text while revising, search it, and act on it; a recording gets played once if at all.
Canvas's SpeedGrader moves to the next submission quickly. Confirm the comment saved before advancing, or a dictated paragraph goes nowhere.
Yes, you can record a comment. Dictating text instead gives students something they can reread and search, which recordings do not.
Yes. Each rubric criterion has its own comment field — click into it first.
Yes. Both are ordinary rich-text editors.
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