Free Professional Development
Join Wendy Soutsos for a practical, 45-minute session on using GradingPal 2.0 to grade your assignments, give every student actionable feedback, and see what your class needs next.
Hosted by Wendy Soutsos
Educator Experience Lead at GradingPal
The first weeks of school are a chance to establish routines before the marking piles up. In this session, you’ll learn how to use AI for the repetitive scoring and comment writing while keeping the decisions that depend on your knowledge of the class. Start with your assignment and expectations, review the results, and use the feedback and learning evidence to plan what happens next.
See how GradingPal reads student work and generates scores against your rubric. Learn what to specify before grading and what to review afterward, so you can focus on judging the assessment instead of writing every score and comment from scratch.
Learn how to shape feedback around your teaching language, the student’s response, and the task. The goal is a comment a student can use to revise an explanation, correct a method, or strengthen an argument.
See how class strengths and weaknesses become recommendations for instruction. Learn how to check the work behind a pattern and decide whether your next step should be whole-class reteaching, targeted practice, or individual support.
Start with work you already assign: a writing response, worksheet, or math or science assessment. Use your own rubric or adapt one from the library. Define what earns credit, how you handle partial answers, and the feedback students need at this point in the year.
See how submissions from Google Classroom, Google Drive, or scanned work enter the grading workflow. Compare the original response with the rubric score and its explanation. We’ll look at written responses and handwritten math or science work so you can see how review changes with the subject.
Set the feedback style, tone, and detail. See how the built-in assistant helps with edits, then preview what students will receive before sharing or printing it. Finish by connecting the class results to instructional recommendations and seeing how aligned assignments build a standards mastery record over time.
AI grading is useful beyond essays. See GradingPal assess short answers, longer explanations, and handwritten working against rubric criteria. A mathematical method or scientific explanation deserves attention to the steps and reasoning, not just the final answer.
Tell GradingPal what language to use, how much detail to provide, and what to emphasize. See how those instructions change a comment, then use the assistant to refine it. You remain the person who decides what feedback is right for the student.
See how evidence from aligned assignments contributes to the mastery gradebook, and how analytics identify strengths, gaps, and possible next teaching steps. We’ll connect these tools to familiar curriculum expectations, including Common Core, NGSS, and TEKS, so you can understand where standards fit into your assessment routine.
You don’t need to redesign your entire course to begin. By the end of the session, you’ll know how to choose a useful starting assignment, set the rubric and feedback instructions, review the resulting assessment, and decide how students should use the feedback. You’ll also know where to look for class patterns that can inform your next lesson.
If you have an assignment and rubric in mind, keep them nearby as you watch. Think about the part that takes the most time today—and which grading decisions you want the workflow to preserve.
Yes. This is a free professional development session hosted online through Zoom. Use the Zoom registration page to register.
Yes. Attendees will receive a certificate of participation for the session.
Yes. We’ll begin with choosing an assignment, setting expectations, and reviewing the results. You don’t need previous experience with GradingPal to follow the session.
Yes. You’ll see how the 2.0 workflow connects rubric scoring, feedback controls, the built-in assistant, classroom analytics, and standards mastery. Use the session to identify parts of your routine you can simplify or improve.
No. The session includes writing, math, and science examples, including handwritten work. We’ll focus on the rubric and review decisions that help you apply AI grading to different kinds of assessment.
Yes. GradingPal generates scores and comments for you to review. You’ll learn how to examine the evidence, adjust the assessment, and decide what students receive before sharing it.
No preparation is required. If you’d like to connect the demonstration to your classroom, have an assignment and rubric in mind. We’ll show the workflow during the session.
Join Wendy Soutsos to learn how to spend less time marking, give students feedback they can use, and bring the evidence into your next lesson—with GradingPal 2.0.
Thursday, September 17, 2026
4:00–4:45 p.m. Pacific Time · Free on Zoom
Certificate of participation included.
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