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Ask GradingPal
One assistant across the app. It proposes changes, shows exactly what would change, and you decide. Ask it to tighten a rubric, restructure your questions, or adjust one student’s feedback — and accept or reject each edit on its own.
A rejected proposal changes nothing. There is undo after, too.
The Problem With Asking AI to Change Something
You ask for one thing and get four. The criterion you wanted tightened is tightened, and the wording you were happy with has also been improved, and the level descriptions have been made more consistent, and now you are reading the whole rubric again to work out what moved. The change was applied before you saw it, so checking it is your problem — which is how a minute of help becomes ten minutes of proofreading.
It Proposes. You Decide.
Ask in plain words and nothing happens to your work yet. What comes back is a proposal you can read before any of it is real.
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Ask in Plain Words
“Make criterion 3 stricter about citing sources, and add a level for exceptional work.” No syntax, no settings, no learning what to type.
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See Exactly What Would Change
The affected text is marked up right where it lives, in your rubric rather than in a chat window, alongside a list of every individual change it is proposing.
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Accept Some, Reject Others
Each change stands on its own. Accept three, reject two, and only the three land. Nothing is applied until you approve it, and there is undo afterwards.
Worked example
- You ask
- “Make criterion 3 stricter about citing sources, and add a level for exceptional work.”
- It proposes
- Two edits, shown in the rubric itself: the reworded criterion, and a new top level.
- You decide
- Approve the new level. Reject the rewording — you liked how criterion 3 read. Only the level is added.
One Button, Wherever There’s Something to Edit
The same assistant appears in three places, and only three: while you are building a rubric, while you are editing questions and answer keys, and inside the grading view when you are working on one student’s feedback. It is not everywhere, and it does not follow you around. It is where the editing is.
Things Teachers Actually Ask It
To a Rubric
Tighten a criterion. Add or remove a level. Rebalance the points. Rewrite the level descriptions in language a student can actually use.
To Questions and Answer Keys
Split a question that was doing two jobs, merge two that were doing one, reword for clarity, fix an answer key, change what a question is worth.
While You’re Grading
Soften a comment that reads harshly at eleven at night, sharpen one that is too vague to act on, add a next step, or adjust a score. If you accept a score change, your reason is recorded with it automatically.
It Reads What You Give It
Attach a file to the conversation, or let it consult the assignment’s own handout, and its suggestions are grounded in your actual materials rather than in a general idea of what a rubric for this topic might look like. It is the difference between a suggestion about argumentative writing and a suggestion about the argumentative essay you set.
Nothing Waits Silently
When a proposal is waiting for you, the button itself changes to say so — it reads “Review changes” until you have dealt with it. You never come back to an assignment and find something pending that you had forgotten about, and you never find something applied that you had not.
Where the Limits Are
Three things worth being straight about.
It Works on One Thing at a Time
In the grading view it helps with the student in front of you, not with the whole class at once. That is deliberate — a change you have not read applied to thirty students is exactly what this design exists to prevent.
It Suggests; It Does Not Know Your Class
It has your rubric and your materials. It does not know that this cohort was taught a narrower version of the topic, or that you have a reason for the wording you chose. That context is why the reject button matters.
You Are Still the Editor
A proposal is a first draft of a change. Some of them will be wrong, and rejecting them costs one click — which is the whole point of showing you first.
More on how we think about AI and judgement.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Ask GradingPal change my work automatically?
No. It proposes changes and shows exactly what would change, marked up where the text lives. Nothing is applied until you approve it, each change can be accepted or rejected on its own, and there is undo afterwards.
Can it change a student’s grade?
It can propose a score change while you are grading that student, and you decide whether to accept it. If you do, your reason is recorded with the change automatically. It cannot alter scores you have already approved and shared.
What can I ask it to do?
Edit rubrics — tighten a criterion, add a level, rebalance points. Edit questions and answer keys. And while grading, adjust one student’s feedback or score. It works where the editing is, not across a whole class.
Is this new in GradingPal 2.0?
AI-assisted editing already existed. What is new in 2.0 is that there is one assistant across the product, that it now helps with rubrics and questions as well as feedback, and that every change is shown for approval instead of applied.
Does it see my assignment materials?
Only what you give it. You can attach a file to the conversation or let it consult the assignment’s own handout, so suggestions are grounded in your materials rather than a generic version of the topic.
See It Propose Something
Open a rubric, ask for a change in plain words, and read the proposal before any of it is real.