EssayGrader uses artificial intelligence to generate feedback and score essays based on a grading rubric that can be supplied by the teacher.

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Features: Essay Grader offers streamline grading and provides detailed, actionable feedback to your studentsand - all in one intuitive interface. All the while, you maintain complete control over your assessments.

EssayGrader can provide feedback on various areas of student work. It offers a wide range of cusomized rubrics that align with state standards like Texas STAAR, Florida BEST and California CCSS.

EssayGrader writes a brief report on each area of focus in a rubric and provides a suggested grade for that area. It will also provide an overall grade for the essay. In addition, EssayGrader includes an error report, which highlights punctuation and grammar errors, an AI-detection report, and it can summarize long essays.

Essay Grader syncs with both Google Classroom and Canvas, two popular LMS, for extra convenience.

Essay Grader provides both an AI Essay Detector and a Plagiarism Detector. Its AI detector can detect AI-generated essays, assess language complexity, and review originality. Its Plagiarism detector can identify copied content across student submissions.

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Price: The Basic free plan includes 25 essays per month. The Lite plan costs $6.99/month and includes 100 essays per month. The Prp plan costs $14.99/month and costs $14.99/month.

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Tom’s Take: Essay Grader is an excellent tool and is unveiling Version 3.0, which features student writing performance insights, Class performance insights, plagiarism detection (separate from AI detection), and brand new grading and feedback features.

Disclaimer: Essay Grader is a sponsor of tomdaccord.com.

Graded Pro is an AI-powered grading platform that streamlines the assessment process for most subjects, including Mathematics, Sciences, Humanities, English, Computer Science, and Art.

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Features: Fully integrated with Google Classroom, Graded Pro automatically retrieves student submissions, eliminating manual upload tasks and also allowing teachers and students to continue working in a familiar setting.

Graded Pro also supports a wide range of educational standards, including the US Common Core and Advanced Placement, IB curriculum, UK GCSE and A levels, along with other global academic frameworks.

The platform allows for the addition of custom rubrics or solutions, and teachers can review automated feedback before it is finalized and sent back to students.

Graded Pro grades handwritten work and art submissions in addition to digital documents.

In April 2025 Graded Pro introduced “Version 2” with significant new features: School Accounts - Schools can now invite teachers to join their account, share credits, and centrally manage billing.

Voice and Text Notes - Teachers can now add both voice and text annotations directly onto student work.

Apps - Graded Pro has introduced mobile apps so students can scan their work directly, without needing to upload via Classroom or the web.

Plans to expand LMS support and Android App - iOS Version beyond Google Classroom are underway.

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Price: Free trial of 30 credits. $10 for 600 credits and $25 for 1600 credits.To grade 125 students you would need about 1,500 credits per month.

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Tom’s Take: Graded Pro is well organized, intuitive, and supports all standard file types. It’s a great option if you and your students use Google Classroom.

Graded Pro is adding new features regularly and extending its functionality and usefulness. If you teach in the U.S. or the UK, you will find its alignment with standards especially helpful.

ChatGPT is a conversational AI chatbot from OpenAI that can complete many assessment tasks quickly and efficiently.

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Features: ChatGPT is a versatile platform that can undertake almost any written assessment task, including grading quizzes, tests, and essays.

ChatGPT can also help you create a rubric, find a rubric, or simply use the rubric that you provide. It can also help you find and incorporate state standards, writing guides, or other resources to enhance your assessment performance.

ChatGPT is more flexible than most dedicated AI grader tools because the user has more flexibility when it comes to creating prompts. ChatGPT also allows for uploading of documents (ex. scoring guides), which some AI graders do not allow.

There are multiple models available: GPT-4o, GPT-4o mini, GPT-4.5, o3, 04 and o4-mini high. GPT-4o excels at generating constructive, human-like feedback,.

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Price: GPT-4o is free to use, though some ChatGPT features are restricted to Plus users.

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Tom’s Take: Big picture, there are two fundamental choices when it comes to grading student work with AI. One is to opt for a general AI chatbot like ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, or Google Gemini. The other is to use a dedicated AI grading system, like those listed on this page.

If you’re comfortable creating AI prompts (and working with PDF documents) you should strongly consider using an AI chatbot like ChatGPT for your grading tasks.AI chatbots are more flexible than AI grading systems, and you can upload important contextual documents — such as state standards, writing guides, rubrics, and more — that you may not be able to upload to an AI grader. And you can do all of this for free.

But to leverage ChatGPT effectively, teachers need to create effective prompts. Speciality AI grading tools, on the other hand, offer pre-constructed prompts to simplify the process of generating relevant and appropriate content.

TimelyGrader is an AI grading and feedback platform that streamlines the entire grading process from rubric creation to grade pass back to the LMS.

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Features: Timely Grader offer robust AI-assisted grading capabilities for various types of assessments such as essays, term papers, and reports. It also provides instructors with explanations and reasoning for each grading suggestion so they can validate the AI's suggestions. At the same time, it provides instructors with first-pass feedback for each student submission.

Timely Grader also has feedback tools for students where they can instantly generate feedback on their drafts to enable formative learning. Instructors have full edit capabilities and transparency. Students have a say at our table and are regularly consulted.

Timely Grader also has a built-in rubric generator that will help instructors create an AI-friendly rubric. Timely Grader also integrates with Canvas and D2L. This allows for pulling of student submissions and syncing directly into instructor workflows such as grade and feedback pass back to the SpeedGrader.

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Pricing: Free for individual instructors. But LMS integration requires a “pilot-level” contract. Institutions and schools are charged at the pilot level.

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Tom’s Take: Timely Grader is well designed, intituitve, and integrates seamlessly with Canvas. It has an excellent range of features, including instant feedback tools and a rubric generator.

Created by ex-teachers, Eduaide is a powerful AI-driven teaching assistant with over 100 educational resources, including assessment tools.

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Features: Eduaide helps teachers create lesson plans, teaching resources, assignment feedback, assessments, and more.

To burnish its lesson plans offerings, Eduaide offers “lesson seeds”, which include lesson rubrics, engagement activities, quizzes, worksheets, slides, and more.

Its Feedbot option enables teachers to paste in the students work and receive feedback based on various categories — including custom feedback based on your own rubric. In its Assessment category teachers can input a teaching objective or standards based information and Eduaide will generate various types of questions, such as Multiple Choice and Fill-in-Blank.

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Price: Eduaide offers 15 free generations a month. For unlimited access to all tools and resources you’ll pay $5.99/month.

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Tom’s Take: Eduaide is a flexible and wide-ranging lesson planning and summative assessment tool. However, unlike like MagicSchool, Eduaide does not provide student-facing tools, and cannot be used for formative assessment.

Class Companion is an AI-powered tool that helps teachers assess student writing and provides real-time feedback on student writing. Teachers craft assignments, students submit their work, and the AI provides feedback, suggestions, hints and more.

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Features: Class Companion enables teachers to identify areas where students need improvement and provide targeted feedback. The tool provides feedback on the clarity and coherence of student writing, helping teachers identify areas where students need to improve their writing skills. It can be used to grade assignments, track student progress, and generate reports. It supports all subjects that have written assignments, including AP level classes.

Students must be invited by their teacher to access Class Companion, via a unique link or by sending an email invitation.

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Price: Free for teachers

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Tom’s Take: Class Companion has a great range of features for grading essays, providing feedback, and unlocking insights. It aids teachers through the entire process of creating assignments, distributing assignments, creating rubrics, and more.

Class Companion has reportedly been funded $14 million, with investments from the OpenAI Startup Fund and notable angel investors. So, we should see improvements in the months ahead.

Formative is a long-time assessment platform that allows for various auto-graded question types.

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Features: Formative includes a variety of auto-graded question types, including multiple-choice, true/false, matching, and fill-in-the-blank. Its "show your work" question type even allows students to draw or write out their work and have it graded by the teacher. 

Formative also enables a teacher to transform a PDF or Google Doc into an auto-graded quiz. It also facilitates built-in questions in slides, YouTube videos and purports to detect if students copy and paste work. Formative leverages AI to intelligently group similar student responses for teachers to grade at once. It also learns from teacher scoring to provide suggested scores for future responses.

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Price: The basic plan is free and includes unlimited lessons, assignments, and assessments, but does not include grading and feedback tools. The (“Silver”) costs $15 a month and includes unlimited lessons, assignments, and assessments, advanced question types.

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Tom’s Take: Over the years, I have greatly benefited from the "Upload & Transform" featureandthe ability to see student responses in real-time. It enables teachers to identify students who may be falling behind, or perhaps going too fast. Last year, Newsela, a leading K-12 instructional content platform, acquired Formative, combining Formative's assessment activities with Newsela's excellent content

Zipgrade is a grading app that allows teachers to scan and grade multiple-choice tests using their mobile devices.

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Features: With Zipgrade, teachers can print their own answer sheets, create custom keys, view item analysis, export results to CSV or PDF files, and share reports with students and parents.

Teachers can use their smartphone or tablet camera to scan the answer sheets and can also scan multiple answer sheets at once. Teachers can see the scores and grades of each student as soon as they scan the answer sheets. They can also review the answers, mark them as correct or incorrect, or add comments or notes. Teachers can see the distribution of scores and grades, the difficulty level of each question, the percentage of correct answers, and more.

Teachers can export the results to CSV or PDF files, or upload them to Google Drive or Dropbox. They can also email or print the reports, or share them with students and parents via QR codes or web links.

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Price: It’s only $6.99 for a year of unlimited scanning. The free plan has a limit of 100 papers per month.

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Tom’s Take: ZipGrade will grade multiple choice tests you quickly. It’s intuitive, accurate, and relatively cheap. It gets 4+ stars on the App Store, though the reviews are from years back.

But it does little beyond multiple-choice grading, so its features pale in comparison to many other AI grading platforms.

Brisk Teaching is a Chrome extension that integrates with Google Workspace, streamlining lesson planning and student feedback.

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Features: Brisk Teaching provides robust assessment tools, enabling educators to create quizzes, tests, and formative assessments that accurately measure student understanding and progress.

One of the standout features of Brisk Teaching is its Targeted Feedback tool, which allows teachers to provide precise, rubric-aligned comments directly on student documents. This tool streamlines the feedback process, helping educators guide students effectively by highlighting specific areas for improvement and offering constructive suggestions.

Additionally, Brisk supports various feedback methods, including "Glows & Grows," rubric criteria, and next steps, ensuring that feedback is comprehensive and actionable. Additionally,

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Price: Brisk Teaching is free for teachers to use, for 14 days. Teachers interested in 45 days of additional access to Brisk's Premium features can join Brisk's AI Professional Community. Its Grading tools is a paid option.

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Tom's Take: Brisk Teaching has evolved from a feedback generator to a comprehensive teaching assistant with over 30 tools, though only 20 are free. Brisk Teaching’s main advantage is seamless integration with Google's educational suite.

While highly beneficial for Google-centric teachers, those outside this ecosystem might find it less useful. Also, the Targeted Feedback tool is only available to teachers with a premium account and teachers cannot buy a premium version; it's only sold to schools and universities. 

Socrative is a long-standing student response system that supports auto-grading of multiple-choice, true/false, and short answer questions.

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Features: Teachers can create quizzes and launch them in real-time, with student responses graded automatically. Socrative's AI provides instant feedback and generates reports to help teachers identify areas where students are struggling.

The platform also allows teachers to create exit tickets, short, targeted assessments that gauge student understanding at the end of a lesson. Socrative's AI-powered analytics provide teachers with valuable insights into student performance, identifying areas where students excel and where they may need additional support. 

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Price: The free Plan accommodates up to 50 students and 5 quizzes. Socrative Pro for K-12 teachers costs $89.99/year to access unlimited quiz creation and launch multiple activities.

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Tom’s Take: I’ve used Socrative for years, both as a classroom teacher and a consultant, and Socrative has a great assortment of features for both formative and summative assessment.I’ve used Socrative mostly for its formative assessment tools and its gamification. The Space Race game in particular is a blast, and great for cooperative teamwork. Yet, the Space Race does not provide the ability to assess individual performance and, overall, I feel that Formative provides deeper student analytics from quizzes. 

Kangaroo AI is a new AI-powered grading platform in beta mode that offers instant grading

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Features: Kangaroo AI offers instant grading, significantly reducing the time teachers spend on manual grading while and maintaining consistency in grading standards. Teachers can upload customizable rubrics tailored to specific assignment criteria or learning goals, ensuring a personalized grading experience. The platform also includes 24/7 support through RooChat, a friendly AI teacher assistant, and operates on a secure platform, ensuring data safety and confidentiality.

The tool features an AI plagiarism checker that automatically detects the percentage of AI-generated plagiarism, helping uphold academic integrity. Additionally, it generates constructive feedback on writing style, grammar, and argument structure, assisting students in improving their writing skills. The platform's ease of use and seamless integration with existing educational tools further enhance its efficiency and effectiveness in the classroom.

Applications include enhancing remote learning with high-quality AI feedback, preparing students for standardized writing tests, and facilitating writing workshops with instant, actionable critiques.

Teachers can start by signing up for a free account, uploading student essays, customizing rubrics, and reviewing automated suggestions to provide personalized feedback, making AI Essay Grader a comprehensive tool for modern education.

Price: Free trial.

AI Essay Grader uses AI-powered feedback and scoring to streamline the essay grading process for educators.

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Features: AI Essay Grader generates automated feedback on student essays, focusing on areas such as grammar, coherence, and structure. It allows educators to align grading with specific rubrics, ensuring consistency and adherence to assessment standards. It also supports all common essay formats (DOC, PDF, TXT)

AI Essay Grader also supports grading multiple essays simultaneously and is designed with a straightforward interface, making it accessible for educators with varying levels of tech proficiency. Export feedback as PDFs, emails, or links that you can share directly with students.

LMS integration with Canvas or Google Classroom is available, but only with a Pro account.

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Price: You can grade up to 5 essays for free. It costs $7.99/month to grade up to 25 essays per month and $17.99/month to grade up to 250 essays. If you want LMS integration (Canvas, Google Classroom) that costs $14.99/month, but you can grade up to 500 essays.

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Tom’s Take: AI Essay Grader offers a straightforward process for grading student essays. Yet, it lacks some of the advanced integrations and functionalities found in similar tools.