Gradescope is a paper-to-digital grading platform that significantly streamlines grading and feedback. It supports flexible assessment formats (including multiple choice/scantron, short answer, open response, essays, templated exams, coding, etc.) and provides clear, organized feedback for students while saving faculty substantial time.
Faculty across disciplines use it in slightly different ways — for exams, problem sets, written work, coding, and more — but they consistently report the same outcomes:
- Dramatically reduced grading time
- Greater consistency and fairness through rubric-based grading
- Easier logistics than flipping through stacks of paper
- The ability to adjust rubric criteria and automatically update scores retroactively — eliminating hours of manual rescoring
Gradescope’s answer grouping feature allows you to grade similar responses together, improving efficiency and consistency; faculty can submit all student work by scanning all of the class exams into a single PDF and let Gradescope match each student's work to the class roster. Students can submit work easily via photo upload or PDF, and (if permitted) can resubmit work or request regrades. Many students report appreciating the transparency of scoring and the clarity of feedback.
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