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AI grading for teachers. Less marking. More useful feedback.
Grade essays, handwritten math, science assignments, and more with rubric-based scores and detailed student feedback. Track standards mastery and see what your class needs next.
50 submissions a month, free. No credit card required. Google Classroom integration available.
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Used by teachers in schools and districts across the United States
Reduce grading workload. Give individual feedback. Identify learning gaps.
GradingPal is an AI grading tool that reads student work, explains its scores, and creates actionable feedback in your teaching voice. Turn a class set into reviewed grades, individual next steps, and a clearer plan for teaching—all in one workspace.
Spend less time marking and writing comments
Let GradingPal assess submissions against your rubric and generate scores, explanations, and feedback. Review the work with the evidence beside you, rather than write every comment from a blank page. Reduce the repetitive part of grading and return work sooner.
Give every student a useful next step
Provide feedback that addresses the student’s actual response: what they did well, where their work falls short of the criteria, and how to improve it. Make detailed, individualized feedback practical across a class set, with language and guidance that fit the assignment.
Know where to focus your teaching
See shared strengths, recurring difficulties, and progress against learning standards. GradingPal’s classroom analytics suggest instructional next steps, helping you decide what to reteach, which students need support, and what to check on the next assignment.
See GradingPal in action
Watch the GradingPal product demo, then try AI grading yourself. Explore rubric-based scores, feedback controls, classroom insights, and standards mastery in one workspace.
Try the interactive AI grading demo
See how a student response is assessed against rubric criteria, with scores and individual feedback you can review.
AI grading across subjects and assessment types
Use GradingPal for English, math, physics, chemistry, biology, history, and other subjects through the assessments you already assign. From an essay to a handwritten problem set, GradingPal reads the work, assigns rubric-based scores, and provides individual feedback for your review.
Essays & Writing
Grade English essays, short responses, and research papers against your rubric. Give specific feedback on arguments, evidence, organization, and the writing skills you teach.
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Worksheets
Grade math, science, and other subject worksheets question by question. Explain where each response earned credit and give students guidance on the answers they need to revisit.
Explore worksheet grading
Quizzes & Exams
Score quizzes and exams against your criteria across supported subjects. Review individual answers, explain lost credit, and identify questions your class struggled with.
Explore exam grading
Problem Sets
Automatically grade math, physics, and chemistry problems, including handwritten working. Assess the method and answer against your rubric, with partial-credit instructions and feedback on the student’s reasoning.
Explore problem-set grading
Science Labs
Grade biology, chemistry, and physics lab reports. Assess scientific explanations, evidence, calculations, and conclusions, with rubric-based scores and feedback on what each student needs to improve.
Explore science grading
Handwritten Work
Read and grade scanned student responses, including mathematical notation and written explanations. Review the original handwriting beside the scores and feedback, without asking students to retype their work.
Explore handwritten grading
Presentations & Slides
Assess slide content, arguments, and sources against your rubric. Give feedback on the relevant slide so students can connect each comment to the work they need to revise.
Explore presentation grading
Video & Audio
Assess spoken content in recorded presentations, oral exams, and narrated explanations. Generate rubric-based scores and feedback linked to relevant moments for students and teachers to review.
Explore oral and video gradingHow GradingPal scores math and science
GradingPal reads mathematical notation and assesses multi-step working against your rubric. Specify how method, accuracy, and partial credit affect the score. Equivalent numerical and algebraic forms can be recognized, while your instructions determine whether a particular answer form or method is required.
For physics, chemistry, and biology, assess the calculations, evidence, explanations, and conclusions the assignment calls for. GradingPal generates scores and individual feedback, with reasoning you can inspect beside the student’s response. Use one grading workspace for a numerical problem, a scientific explanation, and an extended essay.
Grade a class set of handwritten work from one PDF
Students can keep showing their working on paper. Upload a scanned class set and GradingPal separates the PDF into student submissions for grading. Review the original handwriting alongside the scores and comments, and check any work that needs a closer look.
Connect GradingPal to your classroom tools
Keep the systems your teachers and students already use. Bring assignments and submissions into GradingPal, review the scores and feedback, and return the results through your classroom workflow.
Google Classroom
Bring in classes, assignments, rubrics, and student submissions from Google Classroom. Grade the work in GradingPal, then return reviewed feedback to Classroom, with or without grades attached. Posting a GradingPal assignment to Google Classroom takes one action.
Canvas
Canvas integration is available on a school plan. Talk with our team about your school’s workflow, setup, and rollout.
Schoology
Schoology integration is available on a school plan. Talk with our team about connecting your school’s assignment and feedback workflow.
Google Drive and direct uploads
Select files from Google Drive or upload documents and scans directly. You can use GradingPal without connecting a learning management system.
How to grade an assignment with GradingPal
Start with an assignment you already teach. Add your rubric, bring in student work, and let GradingPal produce scores and feedback. Your review and sharing controls keep the final result in your hands.
Add your assignment and rubric
Upload, paste, or import the assignment. Bring your own rubric, choose one from the rubric library, or generate a rubric to adapt. Set the criteria, performance levels, and expectations before grading begins.
Bring in student submissions
Upload files or scans, choose work from Google Drive, or collect submissions through GradingPal or Google Classroom. Prepare an assignment in Draft, make it Live to collect work, and close or reopen submissions when you need to.
Set your grading and feedback preferences
Give instructions for partial credit, subject terminology, and assignment-specific requirements. Choose the feedback style, tone, length, and supported language that fit your students and the task.
Get rubric-based scores and individual feedback
GradingPal assesses the work against your criteria and provides explanations and comments. Follow grading progress in the workspace, then open a student’s work to examine the results.
Review and refine
Read the evidence behind a score, adjust a result, or ask the AI assistant to revise a comment. Preview the student experience before sharing so you can check the feedback they will receive.
Return feedback to students
Share digitally or print student feedback reports. Check how each student will receive the results, then share immediately or schedule a release that fits your teaching plan.
Protect student work. Control what gets shared.
Student work is not used to train AI models. Teachers control the grades and feedback students receive, including when results are shared. Review GradingPal’s published security, privacy, and data-handling information. Schools can also discuss documentation requirements and data processing agreements with our team as part of their evaluation.
Track student progress against your learning standards
Connect rubric criteria or questions to learning standards. As you approve grading results, GradingPal automatically builds each student’s standards mastery record across assignments—without a separate tracking sheet.
Choose mastery rules and review the evidence behind progress
GradingPal suggests relevant standards from your selected framework; you approve the connections. Open a mastery result to see the graded work that contributed to it. Use that evidence for further practice or progress conversations with students and families. Standards tracking is optional; you can grade entirely against your own rubric.
Choose how results are summarized
Set the calculation method, scale, and cutoffs to reflect your assessment approach.
Decide how much evidence is needed
Specify a minimum amount of graded work before a mastery level appears, so a single assignment does not stand in for a pattern.
Apply your professional judgment
When the record needs your interpretation, adjust a mastery level with a reason. The teacher-set result remains identifiable.
Open the work behind a result
Move from a mastery view to the graded assignment that contributed to it, so the next conversation starts with a concrete example.
Common Core, NGSS, TEKS, AP, IB, and state frameworks
GradingPal supports standards-aligned assessment across all 50 states and Washington, D.C., covering English language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies. Find your framework, connect the relevant learning standards, and use the results to follow student progress. Explore Common Core and NGSS standards, Texas TEKS, and other state frameworks. The rubric library also includes resources drawn from assessment programs and curricula such as MCAP, Smarter Balanced, ACAP, KSA, AP, and IB MYP, giving teachers practical starting points for classroom assessment.
Common Core
Connect English language arts and mathematics criteria to grade-level learning standards.
Explore Common CoreNGSS
Assess scientific explanations, investigations, and reasoning against the relevant science learning goals.
Explore NGSSTexas TEKS and STAAR practice
Align classroom assessment with the TEKS you teach and review evidence from STAAR practice work.
Explore Texas TEKS and STAAR practiceCalifornia standards and CAASPP practice
Connect classroom responses and performance tasks to relevant learning goals.
Explore California standards and CAASPP practiceFlorida B.E.S.T. and FAST context
Review benchmark-aligned classroom work and identify where students need further practice.
Explore Florida B.E.S.T. and FAST contextNew York NGLS and Regents practice
Assess course-aligned responses and written practice with clear criteria and evidence.
Explore New York NGLS and Regents practiceAP
Explore rubric-based assessment of AP classroom assignments and free-response practice.
Explore APIB
Explore criterion-based feedback for IB coursework practice, including IB MYP rubric resources.
Explore IB
View all 50 states and Washington, D.C.
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What teachers say about grading with GradingPal
Hear how teachers use GradingPal to reduce marking time, respond to individual students, and return feedback students can act on.
“GradingPal individualizes feedback specific to each student and gives steps to improve their performance. I also love the ability to change the tone of feedback for different assignment types. The team is incredibly helpful and responsive too.”
Michelle DouglassGrades 11–12 · Research & Anatomy/Physiology · Central Virginia Governor’s School, Lynchburg VA“GradingPal is helping me a lot! It is cutting down a lot on grading certain assignments, especially map and geography projects. With Middle School students especially, it is very difficult to read their handwriting. GradingPal does it better than I do!”
Marcus AbernathyHistory Teacher · Lancaster Christian Academy, TN“The math capabilities and accuracy have been great. Students can turn in homework digitally but keep hard copies for studying, and the Google Classroom integration is very convenient.”
Brandon McClurgMathematics · Grapevine Faith Christian School, TX“GradingPal helps me optimize my time by streamlining the grading process. What I like most is the feedback students receive — it is specific and it is something they can act on.”
Adriana Barrios RodriguezCollege · Health Sciences & Teacher Education · Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa, MexicoGrade against your rubric, with evidence behind the score
Your rubric defines what matters in the assignment. GradingPal assesses each submission against those criteria, selects performance levels, and explains the reasoning behind its scores. Review the assessment with the student’s work beside it. For written responses, quoted passages connect feedback to the relevant text. For other supported formats, inspect the work and the explanation for the criterion you are reviewing. Check why a response earned credit, where it fell short, and whether the result reflects your expectations.
Set the grading expectations
Specify the criteria, performance descriptions, and point values. Add instructions about method, terminology, required evidence, and partial credit so the assessment reflects the task you assigned.
Inspect the reasoning
Look at the explanation and supporting evidence for a suggested result. GradingPal flags unclear work that needs your attention, so you can examine the original response and decide how to assess it.
Make the final decision
Adjust a score, rewrite a comment, or add your own guidance. You decide what students receive and when the feedback is ready to share.
Bring your own rubric—or start with 500 curated rubrics
Upload your rubric, paste your criteria, or browse GradingPal’s library of 500 curated rubrics. Search by framework, subject, grade level, and assessment format, then preview and adapt a rubric to your assignment. The collection includes resources drawn from MCAP, Smarter Balanced, ACAP, KSA, AP, and IB MYP. You can also generate a rubric from selected standards and share rubric resources with colleagues, helping your teaching team build on work already created.
Rubric library and sharing access depend on your plan. Compare plans.
Give actionable student feedback in your teaching voice
Give students specific feedback on what they did well, where their work falls short, and what to improve next. Choose the style, tone, length, and supported language, then add instructions that match your teaching approach. Review and refine the comments before students receive them.
Give instructions in your own words
Ask for the terminology you teach, a particular structure, or a focus on the next revision. Set your feedback expectations alongside the grading instructions, then refine individual comments when a student needs something different.
Set grading instructionsSeparate grammar feedback from scoring
Highlight spelling and punctuation while keeping the assignment’s rubric at the center of the grade. Grammar affects scoring when it belongs in the criteria you have chosen.
Explore grammar feedbackChoose a feedback language students understand
Provide feedback in supported languages including English, Spanish, French, German, and Brazilian Portuguese. Choose the assessment conventions and the feedback language separately to fit your course and students.
Explore feedback languagesCheck the student experience before sharing
Use View as student to preview a class or assignment as an individual student would see it. Move between students and check that their feedback is clear and ready to receive.
Explore student feedbackKnow what to reteach—and who needs support
GradingPal analyzes graded work to surface classroom strengths, recurring difficulties, and suggested instructional next steps. See which concepts need another explanation and which students could benefit from targeted practice.
Performance analytics is available on selected plans. Compare features.
Connect a classroom pattern to the work behind it
See where students struggled across questions or rubric criteria and which students share a particular gap. A class may understand a scientific concept but struggle to explain the evidence. A group may choose the right mathematical method but make errors when applying it. Open the supporting student work, then plan a worked example, a small-group activity, a revision task, or a fresh check for understanding.
Ask the AI assistant to make the change
Adjust a score, refine feedback, or improve a rubric without leaving your work. Describe what you want, review the proposed change, and accept the edits that match your intention.
“Add a criterion for evidence.”
In this example, GradingPal drafts an Evidence & Support criterion with four performance levels for the teacher to review.
Print, share, or schedule student feedback
Return feedback through Google Classroom or email, or download printable reports for a classroom handout. Review the delivery route for each student, with missing details flagged for attention. Share immediately or schedule the release so students receive feedback when it fits your lesson.
Bring better grading, feedback, and learning insights to your school
Give teaching teams a practical way to reduce marking workload, provide detailed individual feedback, and identify where students need support. Use GradingPal across supported subjects and assessment formats, with shared rubric resources that make expectations easier to communicate across a department. Teachers can use classroom analytics and standards progress to inform planning and conversations about learning. Talk with our team about your school’s curriculum, LMS requirements, licensing, onboarding, and support.
Try GradingPal free on your next assignment
Start with 50 submissions a month, your own rubrics, and editable scores and feedback. Bring a familiar assignment and see how GradingPal handles the work you already teach. No credit card required. Choose a paid plan for additional capacity and features, including the rubric library and performance analytics. School plans support teaching teams with different assessment and implementation needs.
Questions about AI grading, feedback, and standards tracking
Is GradingPal free?
Yes. The free plan includes 50 submissions a month, custom rubrics, and editable scores and feedback. No credit card is required. Paid plans provide additional capacity and features. Compare library, analytics, and sharing access on the pricing page.
What subjects and assessments can GradingPal grade?
GradingPal supports writing, mathematics, science, and other subjects through assessment formats including essays, worksheets, quizzes, exams, problem sets, lab reports, handwriting, slides, art, and spoken content in audio or video. Choose the rubric and grading instructions that fit the assignment. Explore the grading features and worked examples.
Can GradingPal automatically score handwritten math and science work?
Yes. GradingPal reads handwritten math and supported science responses, assesses them against your rubric, and generates scores with explanations and individual feedback. Teachers can review the original work, check the reasoning, and edit results. Explore AI math grading, AI science grading, and handwritten grading.
How does GradingPal decide which score to give?
GradingPal uses your rubric's criteria and performance levels, together with the assignment and grading instructions. It explains suggested scores and provides supporting evidence for review. You can compare the result with the student's response and change it when needed. Our research page explains the scope of the published model benchmark; the grading workflow lets you evaluate results on your own assignments.
Can I change the scores and feedback?
Yes. Edit scores and comments directly or ask the in-app AI assistant to propose a change in the current rubric or grading context. Review the proposed edit and accept it when it matches your intention. You also decide when feedback is shared. Learn about Ask GradingPal.
How does the standards mastery gradebook update?
Connect learning standards to rubric criteria or questions, then approve the assessment results. GradingPal uses that evidence to update student mastery under your chosen calculation rules. Open a result to inspect the supporting work and track progress across assignments. Explore the standards mastery gradebook.
Which standards and state frameworks does GradingPal support?
GradingPal's standards-aligned assessment coverage spans all 50 states and Washington, D.C., including English language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies. Explore Common Core, NGSS, TEKS, and other state frameworks. The rubric library also contains resources drawn from MCAP, Smarter Balanced, ACAP, KSA, AP, and IB MYP. Visit the standards directory to explore the relevant framework pages.
Can GradingPal help me decide what to teach next?
Yes. Classroom analytics identify strengths, gaps, and patterns in graded work, with suggested instructional next steps. Review the findings and supporting responses to decide what to reteach, which students need further support, and what to assess next. Performance analytics is available on selected plans.
Does GradingPal integrate with Google Classroom, Canvas, and Schoology?
Google Classroom integration is available now for bringing in work and returning reviewed feedback. You can also import files from Google Drive or upload them directly. Canvas and Schoology integrations are available on a school plan; contact our team to discuss your school's setup and rollout. Explore integration options.
Can I grade a whole class set of handwritten work?
Yes. Upload a scanned PDF of the class set and GradingPal separates it into student submissions for grading. Review the original handwriting beside the results and check anything that needs attention. Learn about grading handwritten work.
Can feedback match my teaching style and students' language needs?
Yes. Set instructions for the wording and guidance you want, then choose the feedback style, tone, length, and a supported language. You can edit individual comments before sharing them. Explore feedback controls and supported feedback languages.
Can I use GradingPal without standards-based grading?
Yes. Standards tracking is optional. Use your own rubric to score assignments and give feedback without setting up a mastery gradebook. Explore rubric-based AI grading.
Is student work used to train AI models?
No. Student work is not used to train AI models. Read the security and privacy information for further details and documentation for your school.
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