AI tools for teachers

Choosing an AI tool for grading writing, without giving up the grade.

AI tools can take hours off planning and grading. The ones worth using for student writing grade on your rubric, show their evidence, and leave the final call to you.

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What teachers use AI for

Three kinds of AI tools for teachers

Planning and materials

Drafting lesson plans, prompts, passages and quizzes. Useful for a first draft you then edit for your class.

Differentiation

Rewriting texts at different reading levels, adding supports, translating directions for multilingual learners.

Grading and feedback

Scoring student work on a rubric and drafting comments. This is where Grade Our Essays fits, for writing.

Before you pick one

Six questions to ask any AI grading tool

Use these to compare tools, including ours.

Does it grade on your rubric, including your state test rubric, or a generic one?
Does each score show the evidence from the student's writing, so you can check it quickly?
Do you approve scores and feedback before students see them?
How do students get in: accounts, Google sign-in, or a class code?
Is it FERPA and COPPA compliant, and is student work used to train AI models?
What does it cost after the free trial, and is there a school or district option?

Where Grade Our Essays fits

Built for grading writing, nothing else

Grade Our Essays is not a lesson planner. It does one job: scoring student writing on official state rubrics, trait by trait, with the student's own sentences quoted as evidence and revision steps for every student. You review and adjust before anything is released.

Students join with a class code and no accounts, and write in the browser with text-to-speech, speech-to-text and graphic organizers built in.

Using it well

Keep the final say

Calibrate first: grade five to eight essays yourself, then compare
Check the evidence on any score that surprises you
Tell students how AI is used in your grading
Treat AI scores as a first read, never the final grade

FAQ

Questions teachers ask

Can I use ChatGPT to grade essays?

You can ask a general chatbot for feedback on one essay, but it does not keep your rubric consistent across a class set, does not keep a record of scores, and pasting student work into a consumer chatbot may break your district's data policy. A tool built for grading handles all three.

What should I check before using an AI grading tool?

Whether it grades on your rubric, shows evidence for each score, lets you approve everything before students see it, keeps student data private, and how students sign in.

Are AI grading tools allowed in my district?

Check your district's technology and AI policy. Grade Our Essays is FERPA and COPPA compliant, never uses student writing to train AI models, and offers free school and district pilots.

How do I start with AI grading without losing control?

Grade a handful of essays yourself first, run the same essays through the tool, and compare row by row. Once the scores line up with yours, use it for the first read and keep the final say.

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Start a free trial, grade one assignment, and compare the scores with your own before you rely on it.

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