Providing learners with meaningful essay feedback requires significant time and effort. Pregrade, an AI grading assistant, aims to streamline the essay evaluation process by initially grading essays and drafting personalized feedback for each essay. You can then review and adjust the AIs evaluations and feedback as needed. Ultimately, Pregrade empowers you to offer learners enhanced, equitable and personalized feedback while saving them time and effort.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
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Problem
Grading essays and providing meaningful feedback is a time-consuming and effort-intensive task for educators. This can lead to delays in providing feedback, inconsistencies in grading, and reduced time for other important teaching activities.
Solution
Pregrade is an AI-powered grading assistant designed to streamline the essay evaluation process for educators. The platform allows educators to upload multiple essays simultaneously, including both handwritten and typed submissions, and grades them based on a user-defined rubric. Pregrade generates initial grades and drafts personalized feedback for each essay, which educators can then review, edit, and calibrate to ensure accuracy and appropriateness. By automating the initial grading and feedback process, Pregrade enables educators to provide enhanced, equitable, and timely feedback to students while significantly reducing their workload. The platform also offers features such as grammar and punctuation correction, grading data analysis, and visualization tools to further support educators in improving teaching quality and student learning outcomes.
Target Audience
Pregrade primarily targets educators in schools, universities, and learning centers who need to efficiently grade essays and provide personalized feedback to students.
Features
- AI-driven essay grading based on user-uploaded rubrics in DOCX or PDF format
- Supports a wide range of essay types, including argumentative, narrative, informative, and analytical essays
- Handles both typed and handwritten essays (handwritten essays must use a provided template and be scanned with a flatbed scanner)
- Generates personalized feedback, highlighting areas of strength and areas for improvement
- Provides grammar and punctuation corrections with detailed explanations
- Offers grade calibration, allowing teachers to adjust the AI's grading based on a handful of manually graded essays
- Provides grading data analysis and visualization tools to track student performance and identify areas for improvement
- Integrates with LMS platforms like Canvas and Google Classroom (coming soon) for assignment syncing and gradebook passback
- Includes a PDF splitter tool for separating a single PDF containing multiple essays into individual files