For instructors and teaching teams
Grade any assignment against your rubric, and stay in charge of every grade.
Essays, short answers, quizzes, math, science, and code. Upload the assignment, the rubric or answer key you approve, and your students' work. Each submission comes back with points for every criterion and the reason for them.
More than essays
One grader for the whole course
If an assignment has a rubric or an answer key, it can be graded here, whatever the subject and from elementary school to graduate study.
Essays and reports
Arguments, analyses, reflections, case studies, and research papers, in any subject.
Short answers
Question sets and worksheets where each answer is a sentence or a paragraph.
Quizzes, exams, and multiple choice
Mixed papers with multiple choice, true or false, fill in the blank, and written questions.
Math and problem solving
Worked solutions in math, statistics, physics, chemistry, economics, and accounting.
Science and lab reports
Lab write-ups and scientific reports, from hypothesis and method to results and discussion.
Programming and code
Programs and scripts judged by reading them against your rubric.
Reads typed work in PDF, Word (.docx), plain text, Markdown, CSV, source code, and Jupyter notebook files. What it grades, and what it cannot read yet
How it works
Describe the assignment
Add the assignment and its rubric or answer key. Type it in, or upload the document and check what was read from it.
Approve the rubric
Nothing is graded until you approve the rubric. It is then locked for the run, so every submission is held to the same standard.
Upload the class
Choose files or one zip of the whole class, including a Blackboard download. A student's several files are graded together.
Review and approve
Each submission gets points per criterion with the reason for them. Correct anything you disagree with, then approve.
Built so you can stand behind the grade
Your rubric is the standard
Work is judged against the criteria and points you approved, not against a general idea of a good answer.
A reason for every score
Each criterion shows why the points were given, so you can check a grade in seconds and explain it to a student.
You make the final call
A grade is a proposal until you approve it. Your corrections replace it and the original stays on record.
Strict, balanced, or lenient
Choose how the benefit of the doubt is given, and regrade a run at another setting without uploading anything again.
Feedback you can hand back
Download grades with feedback in the layout you need, copy one student's feedback, or make a Blackboard upload file.
Kept separate and on record
Your work is kept separate from everyone else's, and grading, corrections, approvals, and downloads are logged.
What it will not do
Not for students
Students have no accounts and never talk to the grader. It is a tool for the people who teach them.
No judgments about the student
It does not look for cheating or AI writing, and it does not rate effort or intent. It grades the work against the rubric.
Sharing student work is your choice
It is used to improve grading only if you turn sharing on, and then only approved grades, with names and other identifiers removed.
Common questions
Is this only for essays?
No. It grades any typed assignment that has a rubric or an answer key: essays and reports, short answers, quizzes and exams including multiple choice, math and problem solving, science and lab reports, and code.
How does it grade multiple choice or a quiz?
Give the answer key as the rubric, or attach it and mark it as the answer key, with the points for each question or section. Each student's answers are checked against the key you approved, and you see which questions lost points and why.
Which files can it read?
PDF, Word (.docx), plain text, Markdown, CSV, source code, and Jupyter notebook. You can upload files one by one or as one zip of the whole class, including a Blackboard download. Scans, photographs, handwriting, spreadsheets, slides, audio, and video cannot be read yet.
Who decides the final grade?
You do. Every grade is a proposal with the reason for each score. You can correct any criterion, and nothing counts as final until you approve it. Your correction replaces the proposal and the original stays on record.
Is student work used to train AI?
Only if you turn on "Help build better grading" (for a school or team, its owner decides). It is off unless turned on. Then each grade a person approves is copied, with names, email addresses, ID numbers, and similar details removed, so we can improve grading and build our own grading model; copies already shared are kept if you turn it off later. To grade a submission we send it to an AI model provider. We are in pre-release while we finish our written terms with providers, so please use sample work rather than real student records for now.
Ready when your next stack of grading is.
A grading job takes a few minutes to set up, and the results page fills in by itself as each submission is graded.