Questions and answers

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.

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.

It reads the student's worked solution against your rubric. If the rubric gives points for method, the steps are graded as well as the final answer. Equations typed in Word's equation editor are read as written, and you can attach a marked answer key; a correct answer in a different but equivalent form is still correct. Handwritten or photographed work cannot be read yet. Math, science, and code are graded on the Math & Code plans, and the free trial includes up to 10 to try it.

No. Code is read, never run, so no tests are executed. It is judged on what your rubric asks, such as whether it does the task as written, its structure, and its comments. Upload source files, a zip of a project, or a Jupyter notebook; a notebook is read as its code and text cells, without the output.

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.

Any subject, from elementary school to graduate study. You tell it the level, the subject, and the grading scale when you set up a job, and work is judged against your rubric for that context.

You choose the language of the submissions and the language of the feedback for each job, and they can differ. We have checked it most with work written in English.

Yes. Every grade is given against a rubric or answer key that you approve. You can type it in, or upload the document and check what was read from it. Nothing is graded until you approve it.

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.

They decide how the benefit of the doubt is given when an answer only partly meets a requirement. An answer that meets every requirement of a criterion earns full points at every setting. You can regrade a run at another setting without uploading anything again.

Yes. The rubric and settings are locked when grading starts, so every submission in a run is judged against exactly the same standard. To change the rubric you start a new run.

Download a file of grades with feedback, copy one student's feedback, or make a file ready to upload to Blackboard.

No, and it will not. It does not judge a student's honesty, effort, or intent. It grades the submitted work against your rubric and nothing else.

No. It is a tool for instructors and teaching teams. Students have no accounts and never interact with it.

Only you, and anyone you invite to grade with you, in the role you give them. Your work is kept separate from everyone else's, and grading, corrections, approvals, and downloads are logged.

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.

Yes. Write to us from the address on your account and we will delete your assignments, submissions, and results.

Nothing during pre-release. Prices have not been set yet; they will be published on the pricing page before anyone is charged.