Our thanks to a class of 9th grade students at Johnston County (North Carolina) Public Schools for piloting the latest version of our Propel email etiquette tool for Gmail.

We provided the students with an upgraded version of Propel on Monday, April 21 and gained feedback on Monday, April 28.

The overall takeaways:

– The students like the new Propel version and how it gives more tailored examples for the email message. 

– The students also like the new scoring system and how the score improves when the student uses a green light bulb to correct an issue.

– Technical issues we need to work through:

1. Improve how a student moves from section to section in the email and not get the cursor stuck in a single spot.

2. Make sure the floating boxes with email writing samples don’t infringe on the email writing area.

You can see the newest version of Propel here.

We hope to roll out the newest version of Propel to all Rubin customers in fall 2025.