Gradescope vs SchoolAI
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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.
SchoolAI
SchoolAI is a K to 12 classroom AI platform where teachers use Spaces and PowerUps to run guided student activities, with Mission Control dashboards for visibility and safety, offering a free teacher plan plus school and district plans that require contacting SchoolAI.
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Key Features
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
SchoolAI
- • Spaces library access: Pricing page lists access to more than 200000 premade Spaces and resources for teachers and students
- • PowerUps toolkit: Free plan includes 1 PowerUp per Space and higher tiers add unlimited PowerUps per Space
- • Teacher insight dashboard: Includes dashboards for usage and insight so teachers can monitor activity and outcomes
- • Chrome Extension: Pricing page lists a Chrome Extension that brings SchoolAI into everyday Chrome workflows
- • RAG support: Pricing page lists Retrieval Augmented Generation to ground activities in teacher provided materials
- • Compliance claims: Pricing page states FERPA and COPPA compliance and SOC2 and 1EdTech certification
Use Cases
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
SchoolAI
- → Guided practice: Run a Space for step by step practice in math writing or reading aligned to your lesson goals
- → Writing support: Use a PowerUp to provide structured feedback prompts that encourage revision not answer giving
- → Formative checks: Use in session insights to see who is stuck and adjust instruction during class time
- → Small group support: Create differentiated Spaces for groups with different readiness levels and monitor progress
- → Language access: Use translation oriented tools to support multilingual learners where permitted by policy
- → Teacher planning: Remix premade Spaces to build lesson activities faster and reuse them across units
Perfect For
Gradescope
instructors and professors, teaching assistants and graders, academic departments, instructional designers, assessment coordinators, IT and LMS admins, schools evaluating institutional licenses
SchoolAI
teachers, instructional coaches, school leaders, district administrators, curriculum teams, edtech coordinators, and district IT teams that need structured student AI activities with monitoring and compliance controls
Capabilities
Gradescope
SchoolAI
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