GradingPal 2.0: better grading, richer feedback, clearer learning insights

Spend less time on repetitive marking and more time helping students improve. GradingPal brings rubric scoring, individualized feedback, standards mastery, and classroom insights together in a faster, redesigned workspace—for writing, math, science, handwritten work, and more.

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The GradingPal workspace for grading and feedback.
The GradingPal workspace for grading and feedback.

See GradingPal 2.0 in action

Watch the product walkthrough, then explore the features below. Follow an assessment from the rubric and student submission through score review, feedback, and learning evidence. Existing users can sign in with their current account.

Grade the assignments you already teach

GradingPal handles short and long answers, multi-step math, scientific explanations, essays, worksheets, quizzes, exams, slides, and supported recordings. Handwritten scans and photographs bring paper assignments into the same review process. You can assess the working and reasoning students show, alongside the final answer.

Scores come with supporting evidence tied to your rubric. Review the criterion, the proposed credit, and the explanation together; make corrections before approving the assessment. This gives you a clear basis for your decision while reducing the repeated work of drafting every score explanation and comment.

Give feedback in your teaching voice

Choose Targeted, Glow & Grow, Structured, Sandwich, Actionable, or Socratic feedback. Set the level of detail and supported language, then add instructions for tone, terminology, or the next action you want students to take. These six styles are available on the free plan within its monthly submission allowance.

A first draft might need one clear revision priority. A math practice response might need a question about the step where reasoning changed. A final assessment might need a structured explanation of each rubric criterion. Review the generated feedback and choose the approach that serves the learner and the task.

Choose how feedback is written in GradingPal.
Choose how feedback is written in GradingPal.

Follow standards mastery across assignments

The standards mastery gradebook automatically captures approved, aligned evidence as students progress. Open a class view by standard, inspect an individual student's trajectory, and return to the assessed work behind the result. This helps you distinguish a single difficult task from a pattern that needs support.

Choose simple average, decaying average, most recent attempts, most frequent level, or highest level. Configure the scale, evidence requirements, and weights to fit your assessment approach. Record a teacher adjustment with a reason while retaining the calculated result and the option to revert.

The standards directory includes all 50 states and Washington, DC, with Common Core, NGSS, and TEKS resources, plus AP, IB, and exam-board guidance. Explore standards and the mastery gradebook.

Inspect evidence across a student’s standards mastery record.
Inspect evidence across a student’s standards mastery record.

Know what to reteach and who needs support

Classroom analytics bring strengths, weaknesses, and recommended instructional next steps into view. Instead of rereading a class set to find the recurring difficulty, examine the patterns alongside the underlying assessment evidence. Use them to plan a worked example, targeted practice, a small-group lesson, or a new challenge.

The teacher decides how to respond. The value is having the learning evidence available while you plan, so the information collected through grading can help shape the next lesson. Explore classroom analytics.

Classroom insights for a writing assessment in GradingPal.
Classroom insights for a writing assessment in GradingPal.

Start with a rubric and build a shared school library

Browse the 500-rubric catalog, copy a useful starting point, and edit criteria, levels, and points to match your assignment. Bring your own rubric when you already have the right expectations. Your chosen criteria guide both scoring and the explanations students receive.

Shared assignment and rubric libraries on eligible plans help colleagues reuse assessment resources. A department can prepare a common starting point, reduce duplicate setup, and discuss assessment expectations using the same criteria. Explore the rubric library and school plans.

Browse the rubric library in GradingPal.
Browse the rubric library in GradingPal.

Ask the assistant to update scores, rubrics, or feedback

Describe the change you want inside GradingPal. The in-app AI assistant can propose edits to rubric criteria, scores, and student feedback, making it easier to refine an assessment without hunting through controls or rewriting comments manually.

Review a proposal before accepting it, reject changes that do not fit, and undo when needed. For example, ask for more concise feedback or an adjustment to a criterion, then inspect the resulting proposal. Explore Ask GradingPal.

Review an assistant proposal inside GradingPal.
Review an assistant proposal inside GradingPal.

Connect grading to your learning management system

Google Classroom is available now. Canvas and Schoology are available on a school plan. Connect the assessment process to the environment your teachers and students already use, and discuss the setup that fits your institution with our team.

Make everyday assessment easier to manage

The redesigned workspace brings supporting tasks closer to the grading and feedback process. Explore these improvements alongside the main assessment features.

Collect and organize class work

Use assignment folders, join codes, co-teacher invitations, and roster tools to organize your classes. CSV roster import highlights errors, and export supports taking roster information with you. A recovery bin helps manage removed items.

Work with paper submissions

Bring scanned work into grading and use the batch-scan workflow to manage a class set. Inspect the student work as you review the proposed scores and comments. Explore handwritten assignments.

Print, share, or schedule feedback

Choose the delivery approach that fits the assessment. Preview the student's view and use sharing, printing, or scheduling options when returning feedback. Explore feedback delivery.

Handle assignment timing

Schedule assignment opening and closing with the class time zone in mind. Updated emails help communicate the relevant assignment activity and next step.

Keep math notation readable

Work with mathematical notation in the assessment and supported export and Google Classroom workflows. Check the student-facing result as part of your review.

Get clearer guidance while you work

Updated grading-failure guidance helps you identify the next step when an assessment needs attention. The app also includes its rewards and referral area; current details are available in your account.

Questions about GradingPal 2.0

Do I need a new account?

No. Existing users can sign in with their current GradingPal account. New users can create an account and start within the free plan allowance.

Do I have to use standards mastery?

No. You can grade with a rubric and return feedback without setting up mastery tracking. Use standards alignment when you want approved assessment evidence to build a record over time.

Does grammar feedback automatically reduce a score?

Grammar guidance and scoring serve different purposes. Apply grammar-related deductions when your rubric makes them part of the assessment criteria. Explore grammar controls.

Can I edit a library rubric?

Yes. Copy a rubric and adjust its criteria, performance levels, and points to match the task. Review the finished rubric before grading the class.

Explore the features that matter to your teaching

Visit all features, compare plans, or browse grading examples. For a department or school, start with the work teachers need help with, the feedback students need, and the learning evidence your team wants to act on.

Put GradingPal to work on your next assessment

Open an existing account or start free with 50 submissions per month. Bring a familiar assignment, review the scores and evidence, and give students feedback they can use.