LibGuides: Digital Literacy Student Guide: Grammarly

What is Grammarly?

Grammarly cleans up your writing by finding grammatical mistakes, spelling errors, and typos, but it does more than provide an online grammar check. With a Grammarly Premium account, you can access all grammar-checker feedback for your writing and get advanced suggestions that help you improve your writing skills over time.

Grammarly’s product offerings offer writing suggestions wherever you write. Our suggestions are split into four categories: correctness (indicated with a red underline), clarity (blue), engagement (purple), and delivery (green).

Note: You can use Grammarly to check for plagiarism, but Turnitin is still Avondale’s official text-matching software.

Accessing Grammarly

To sign up to your free premium Grammarly account:

1. Go to https://www.grammarly.com/enterprise/signup
2. Provide your name, your Avondale email address, and a password of your choosing.
3. Check your inbox for the email and click on the activation link.

Once you have your account activated, you can log in and:

Access the Grammarly Editor at https://app.grammarly.com.
Under Profile, choose Australian English, and add words to your personal dictionary.
Turn on or off AI-assisted writing features.
Create snippets (shortcuts) that are reusable phrases, sentences, and even whole paragraphs that you can quickly insert into your text to save you time when you use Grammarly for Windows or Grammarly for Mac.
Check out the Grammarly Apps - install one of these or use the online Grammarly editor.

Grammarly Tips & Tutorials

Getting started with Grammarly
Grammarly's walkthrough about installing and getting the most out of our product offerings, as well as managing your account.
Introducing generative AI assistance
Our on-demand generative AI assistance provides the ability to quickly compose, rewrite, ideate, and reply. It’s contextually aware and accounts for personal voice, offering relevant and personalized suggestions that respect user agency and authenticity.
Create snippets in Grammarly
Snippets are reusable phrases, sentences, and even whole paragraphs that you can quickly insert into your text to save you time when you use Grammarly for Windows or Grammarly for Mac.
Grammarly Editor user guide
The Grammarly Editor combines a web-based editor where you can create, upload, and edit your documents, an account center where you can manage your account and subscription, and an app center where you can download other Grammarly product offerings.
How to add Grammarly to Microsoft Office on Windows
To use Grammarly in Microsoft Office, install Grammarly for Windows by following the steps on this site.
How to add Grammarly to Microsoft Office on Mac
To use Grammarly in Microsoft Office, install Grammarly for Mac by following the steps on this site.