Duolingo Max vs Gradescope
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Duolingo Max
Premium Duolingo tier that adds AI features like Explain My Answer and Roleplay conversations, available for select courses and platforms.
Gradescope
Gradescope is an assessment and grading platform for online and in class courses that supports paper based exams, PDFs, bubble sheets, programming assignments, and online assignments, using question by question workflows, rubrics, and analytics to speed up consistent feedback.
Feature Tags Comparison
Only in Duolingo Max
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Only in Gradescope
Key Features
Duolingo Max
- • Explain My Answer gives instant grammar and usage feedback
- • Roleplay simulates conversations with adaptive prompts
- • Integrated with normal lessons and streak progress
- • Available on select languages and primarily iOS first
- • Supports speaking and listening drills with feedback
- • Works offline for core lessons with sync later
Gradescope
- • Question by question grading: Navigate submissions one question at a time to stay consistent and reduce grading context switching
- • Dynamic rubrics: Build rubric items per question and apply feedback quickly while keeping point values adjustable when needed
- • Assignment type coverage: Grade paper exams and student uploaded PDFs and instructor uploaded PDFs and bubble sheets and online assignments
- • AI assisted answer groups: Group like answers for open response questions to review similar work together using the rubric
- • Programming support: Use autograders for immediate feedback or manually grade code with inline comments and scoring rubrics
- • Student workflows: Students upload PDFs or photos and can use a student mobile app for submission and viewing returned work
Use Cases
Duolingo Max
- → Drill grammar with step by step explanations after mistakes
- → Practice conversation in a safe AI dialog before travel
- → Prepare for placement tests with targeted Roleplay sessions
- → Build confidence answering tricky listening prompts
- → Supplement classroom learning with tutor style feedback
- → Maintain streaks while getting deeper corrections
Gradescope
- → Midterm grading: Scan paper exams then grade question by question with a rubric so multiple TAs can work in parallel quickly
- → Homework review: Collect student uploaded PDFs and apply consistent rubric feedback with quick edits that update past work
- → Open response efficiency: Use answer groups to review like answers together for explanations and short essays at scale with less context switching
- → Bubble sheet scoring: Create an answer key then auto grade bubble sheets and confirm marks before releasing results to students
- → CS autograding: Run an autograder for programming assignments and provide immediate feedback while tracking scores per test
- → Anonymous grading: Enable anonymous workflows during grading to reduce bias and reveal names only after grading is finalized
Perfect For
Duolingo Max
language learners students travelers and professionals who want AI supported feedback and conversation practice inside Duolingo
Gradescope
instructors and professors, teaching assistants and graders, academic departments, instructional designers, assessment coordinators, IT and LMS admins, schools evaluating institutional licenses
Capabilities
Duolingo Max
Gradescope
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