FAQs

Read our answers to some of the most common questions teachers ask us.

GradeAssist makes grading essays fast and easy. Work smarter with your own customized rubric criteria, personalized AI feedback and annotations, plagiarism check, grade estimate and AI writing detection on essays.

GradeAssist is a specialized platform of tools designed to assist educators in grading essays with responsible and secure use of AI, whereas ChatGPT is a general purpose chatbot.

Although ChatGPT can provide general feedback on essays, it makes it hard to pinpoint specific areas for improvement. ChatGPT's performance is inconsistent and often requires tweaking prompts, leading to varied results. GradeAssist offers consistent outcomes instantly without any complicated setup and annotations so teachers can instantly see successes and issues, saving hours of time.

Unlike ChatGPT, which lacks built-in plagiarism and AI writing detection, GradeAssist includes these features to ensure academic integrity so teachers don’t have to pay for other expensive tools.

GradeAssist adapts to your unique rubric, analyzing student work solely based on the criteria you provide, ensuring accurate, personalized grading. Simply provide the level 4 section of your rubric, and GradeAssist will take care of the rest!

Our Grade estimates are designed for precision, typically within ±5% of the final grade.

We take pride in GradeAssist being the most fair and objective grading tool available. We believe that the professional judgement of teachers is key to fair grading, which is why our tools only use the criteria and grade level provided by the teacher to evaluate work.

We acknowledge the biases that generative AI technology may introduce, which is why we rigourously test our systems, and always remind our users that teachers are in the driver's seat.

Absolutely not. GradeAssist enhances your ability to provide fair and efficient grading, reinforcing the essential role of teachers in education.