Grading & Assessment Tools

Automated grading, rubric creation, and AI-powered feedback tools to reduce teacher workload.

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Grading Freemium

Chrome/Edge browser extension delivering AI assistance directly into Google Docs, online textbooks, PDFs, and web content. Enables real-time support for essay grading, feedback provision, and student differentiation. Addresses teacher burnout by embedding time-saving AI into existing workflows.

Key Features

  • Five simple buttons for instant help (lesson planning
  • rubric creation
  • essay grading
  • differentiation

CoGrader

Grading Freemium

AI-powered rubric-based grading platform reducing essay grading time by 80% through first-pass automated feedback and grades. Features integrated ChatGPT detection to address academic integrity concerns in multilingual contexts. Enables custom grading criteria aligned with state standards.

Key Features

  • Custom rubric creation and state standards alignment for international curricula
  • First-pass automated feedback generation with detailed justification reports
  • ChatGPT and AI-generated content detection for academic integrity
  • Class-level analytics with x-ray views of performance patterns

Criterion (ETS)

Grading Paid

ETS's e-rater engine provides holistic scores and annotated diagnostic feedback instantly. Developed specifically for English language learners with ELL versions. Analyzes essays against 50+ language features organized into 11 categories. Multiple instructional versions available (Elementary, Middle School, High School/College, ELL, Bilingual).

Key Features

  • E-rater engine analyzing 50+ language features in 11 categories
  • Multiple instructional versions (Elementary
  • MS
  • HS/College

EduSageAI

Grading Freemium

AI-powered grading for subjective essay responses, coding assignments, and rubric-based assessments. Delivers consistent fair evaluation across large cohorts while automatically generating detailed feedback. Features multilingual support (English, Hindi, French, German, more) for diverse language program administration.

Key Features

  • Fast and accurate AI-powered grading for subjective responses and essays
  • Rubric generation functionality creating grading rubrics from prompts in seconds
  • Originality checking identifying plagiarism or AI-generated content
  • Comprehensive analytics dashboard visualizing performance trends and learning gaps

Delivers instant formative feedback on lower-order writing concerns (grammar, spelling, organization, citations) enabling ESL/EFL teachers to redirect feedback toward higher-order aspects. Teachers configure feedback criteria and students receive actionable feedback inviting active reflection and revision decisions.

Key Features

  • Comprehensive rubric system covering content
  • language
  • formatting
  • citations

Gradescope

Grading Paid

Revolutionizes grading for both paper-based and digital assignments through flexible rubrics and automatic consistency across hundreds of submissions. Specialized functionality for scanning handwritten work and automatic test version separation. Per-question analytics help identify language learning objectives not yet mastered.

Key Features

  • Flexible rubric system with unlimited criteria and partial credit options
  • Automatic bubble sheet grading with multiple test version support
  • Per-question and per-rubric statistics with item analysis
  • Support for variable-length assignments (essays

Institutional licenses granting all students, faculty, and administrators access to AI-powered writing assistance integrated across browsers, Office, Google Docs, and email. New Authorship feature shows instructors which portions came from AI tools, promoting transparency rather than accusation.

Key Features

  • Real-time suggestions for grammar
  • spelling
  • punctuation
  • clarity

Hallo

Grading Paid

Automates language proficiency assessment through AI-powered conversational interviews, reducing time and cost traditionally required for oral testing while eliminating interviewer bias. Dynamic question generation adapts to response levels. CEFR-aligned with precise Hallo Proficiency Levels (0-10 at 0.1 intervals).

Key Features

  • AI-driven conversational assessment replacing human interviewers
  • CEFR alignment with Hallo Proficiency Levels (0-10) for precise discrimination
  • Dynamic and unique test questions calibrated to individual proficiency
  • Saves approximately 1 hour per candidate and reduces costs by $10-20

PaperRater

Grading Freemium

Free AI-powered online proofreader identifying grammar, spelling, vocabulary, and stylistic errors while providing plagiarism checking and automated scoring. Makes professional essay evaluation accessible without cost barriers. For resource-limited ESL/EFL programs, represents critical infrastructure for assessment.

Key Features

  • AI-powered grammar and spelling checking with correction suggestions
  • Vocabulary suggestions and writing quality assessments
  • Plagiarism detection comparing against extensive databases
  • Automated essay scoring providing numeric ratings and qualitative feedback

QuillBot

Grading Freemium

AI-powered writing assistant providing paraphrasing, grammar checking, plagiarism detection, AI-generated content detection, and tone analysis. ESL/EFL teachers recommend for vocabulary expansion and sentence-level improvement. AI detector supports academic integrity by identifying AI-generated text.

Key Features

  • Seven paraphrasing modes (Standard
  • Fluency
  • Creative
  • Concise

Writefull

Grading Freemium

Language feedback tailored to academic writing using models trained on millions of journal articles. Enables ESL/EFL students writing for academic purposes to receive feedback mirroring scholarly conventions. Supports Microsoft Word, Overleaf, and Google Docs integration.

Key Features

  • Language models trained on millions of journal articles ensuring academic norms
  • Integration with Microsoft Word
  • Overleaf
  • and Google Docs