Using WorkBuddy to collect student essays: I spent three days setting up a workflow that now saves me half an hour daily

Last Wednesday, I collected unit essays. Forty-something kids submitted electronic drafts that were just like always. Some were WPS files, some were txt exports from phone notes, and two students just sent me long texts directly via WeChat. I opened them one by one, copy-pasted them into Word, and adjusted formatting until my eyes blurred. That night, I thought about the post I saw from the HKEdU AI forum discussing K12 subject applications—it even mentioned Chinese language arts—but the forum talks about concepts and trends. What I need over here is something practical that actually works.