What GradingPal Connects To
One integration built properly, one file source, and a straight answer about everything else. This page is deliberately shorter than our competitors’ — we would rather you knew exactly where you stand before you sign up than after.
| Tool | Status | One line |
|---|---|---|
| Google Classroom | Connected | The whole loop — roster, assignments, submissions, grades back. |
| Google Drive | Connected | Pull files straight from Drive, no downloading first. |
| Canvas | Not yet — waiting list | Not connected today. Tell us and we’ll tell you when it is. |
| Schoology | Not yet — waiting list | Not connected today. Tell us and we’ll tell you when it is. |
| Any other gradebook | By file | Excel, CSV or PDF exports that anything will take. |
Google Classroom, End to End
Import a class and the roster and co-teachers come with it, with new students syncing in as they join. Import an assignment and the work students already turned in comes too. Rubrics you built in Classroom import criterion for criterion, exactly as written rather than paraphrased. One button — Post to Google Classroom — replaces the old publish-then-sync two-step, and when you share feedback it goes back to Classroom with grades attached or without, your call. Close an assignment and it genuinely stops collecting.
Google Drive, for the Files
Pull an assignment or a set of student work straight out of the Drive folder it already lives in, without downloading anything to your laptop first. It is a file source rather than a full integration — nothing syncs back to Drive — and that is all it needs to be.
Canvas and Schoology: Not Yet
Neither is connected today. No roster sync, no grade passback, no single sign-on. If a comparison table somewhere says otherwise, it is wrong, and if we have said otherwise ourselves, that was our mistake.
What does work: your students’ assignments and submissions come into GradingPal as files, grading works exactly as it does for anyone else, and the marks go back to your gradebook as an Excel or CSV export. It is a copy-and-paste step rather than a sync, and for a lot of departments that is genuinely fine — but you should know it before you sign up, not after.
Both are on the waiting list. Enough people have asked that we are tracking demand.
Most of This Needs No Integration at All
Upload the work, or have students submit it with a class code. Grade it. Hand it back digitally, or print a pack — no student accounts required. Nothing in that sentence touches an LMS, and it is how a large number of teachers use GradingPal every day: not because they couldn’t connect something, but because there is nothing they need to connect. You can start from what you have and hand it back on paper.
Your Gradebook Will Take a File
Scores export to Excel or CSV, per criterion or per question, and standards mastery exports as a matrix. Student reports export as PDFs. Whatever your school runs — PowerSchool, SIMS, a spreadsheet a head of department has maintained since 2012 — it will take one of those. And the analytics tell you what to teach tomorrow.
What We Won’t Do
We won’t list what we haven’t built
If a tool is on this page as connected, it is connected. There is no “coming soon” tier, because that phrase has been used to mean anything from next month to never.
We won’t count a file picker as an integration
Reading a file from Drive is useful. It is not a two-way connection, and we say which is which.
We won’t sync a grade you haven’t approved
Nothing posts back to any system until you have reviewed and shared it. An integration is a delivery route, not a decision-maker.
We won’t take more access than the job needs
Classroom permissions cover the classes you connect, and what we do with school data is written down in full.
More on security and privacy in detail.
Frequently Asked Questions
Which tools does GradingPal integrate with?
Google Classroom, fully — roster, co-teachers, assignments, submissions and grades back. Google Drive as a file source. Everything else connects by export: Excel, CSV or PDF, which any gradebook will accept.
Does GradingPal work with Canvas?
Not yet. There is no Canvas integration today — no roster sync and no grade passback. You can still grade Canvas assignments by bringing the files into GradingPal and exporting the marks back, and there is a waiting list for the integration itself.
Does GradingPal work with Schoology?
Not yet, and in the same way as Canvas: no direct connection today, files in and marks out by export, and a waiting list for the integration.
Can I use GradingPal without any LMS?
Yes, and many teachers do. Upload work or collect it with a class code, grade it, and hand it back digitally or as a printed pack. No LMS, and no student accounts, are required at any point.
What can I export?
Scores to Excel or CSV, per criterion or per question; standards mastery as a matrix; and per-student reports as PDFs. Exports can be scoped to a date range.
Do grades post back to Google Classroom automatically?
Only when you share feedback, and only if you choose to attach them. Nothing posts back before you have reviewed and approved it.
Grade What You Have, However It Arrives
Connected to Google Classroom, or dropped in as files from anywhere else — the grading, the evidence and the approval step are the same either way.