Free tool
The letter you'd write with an hour you don't have
You know exactly why the student deserves the letter; the blank page is the problem. Provide the relationship, the strengths with evidence, and the program, and get a structured 300-400 word draft using [Student] placeholders you personalize before sending.
How it works
Step 1
Give the facts
How you know them, what they're strong at (with evidence), and what they're applying to. No names, ever.
Step 2
Get the draft
A complete letter grounded only in what you provided — nothing embellished, nothing invented.
Step 3
Personalize offline
Replace [Student] and [pronoun], add your letterhead, and send it from your own account.
Why instructors use it
- Privacy by design: the tool never receives a student's name
- Claims stay grounded in the evidence you gave
- Formal or enthusiastic register
Common questions
Why placeholders instead of just writing the name in?
So no student-identifying information ever touches the tool. You personalize the downloaded draft yourself, which you'd want to do anyway.
Will it exaggerate the student's accomplishments?
It is instructed to ground every claim in the facts you provide and not embellish beyond them. What you put in is what the letter argues from.
Is the draft stored anywhere?
No. It is generated, handed to you, and gone. Nothing is stored server-side.
The tools are the free part. MyTA is the rest.
MyTA lives inside your LMS and handles the operational work around these documents: grading against your rubric, drafting replies, tracking engagement, keeping your course compliant.