AI Rubric Grading for Essays and Short-Answer Responses (Paper or Digital)
Grade essays, DBQs and short answers against your own rubric with AI — on paper or as digital PDFs — with detailed feedback and full teacher control.
Why written responses take so long to grade
Essays and short answers need a careful read, a score for each part of the rubric, and feedback. By paper 90, it's hard to stay as detailed and consistent as you were on paper one.
1. Build your rubric
Enter criteria with point values — for example, thesis 2 points, evidence 4 points, organization 2 points, conventions 2 points. Partial credit is given within each criterion.
Pick a feedback tone, or choose no feedback if you only want scores.
2. Upload paper or digital work
Scan handwritten responses with your copier or phone, or upload student work as PDFs exported from Google Classroom, Canvas or another platform. Both go into the same grading queue.
3. Review scores and feedback
Each response comes back scored by criterion with a short note for the student. Lower-confidence papers are flagged so you read those first, and you can change any score or comment.
Wrote a comment that fits the whole class? Copy it to every student's paper in one click.
4. Share results
Sync approved scores to Canvas or Google Classroom, or download a grades file. Print a full breakdown for each student so they can see how they did on every part of the rubric.
Does the AI decide the final grade?
No. The AI drafts the scores and feedback; you review and approve them. Nothing is sent to your gradebook until you approve it.
What about student privacy?
Student work is sent to our AI service only to grade your assignment, not to train public AI models. Your papers are tied to your teacher account and you can delete them anytime. See the privacy policy for details.