Speed Grading
AI drafts the grade and feedback. You approve, edit, or reject — nothing posts on its own.
Open any assignment's submission queue and grade with a rubric on one side and the student's work on the other. Ember reads each submission against your rubric criteria and drafts a grade with two to three sentences of specific feedback — or batch-grades an entire pile of ungraded work at once. Every score stays a draft until you publish it, and an originality report flags copied or AI-generated text before you sign off.
At a glance
The challenge
Grading queues never shrink
Reading the same patterns hundreds of times a semester is slow and exhausting, and students wait days for feedback. Legacy gradebooks offer a text box and a number — no help spotting copied work, no reusable feedback, no shortcut for the submissions that all say roughly the same thing.
How Ember helps
Grading that respects your rubric
Ember reads each submission against your actual rubric criteria and drafts a grade with specific, calibrated feedback — or grades an entire batch of ungraded work in one pass. You review, edit, or override every score, and nothing reaches a student until you publish it.
Real scenarios
When you'll use it
Concrete moments in the school week — not abstract features.
Lab report Friday
Send all 28 ungraded submissions to AI grading at once, then spend your attention on the handful that need a second look.
Essay unit
AI drafts a grade and specific feedback against your rubric, and the originality report flags anything that looks copied or AI-written before you sign off.
Quick checks
Grade short-answer submissions one after another with the rubric pinned beside the work, keyboard shortcuts moving you to the next student.
Capabilities
Everything included
Rubric-aligned AI grading
Ember scores against your exact rubric criteria and drafts two to three sentences of specific feedback, ready to edit or accept.
Batch grading
Send every ungraded submission for an assignment to AI grading at once instead of opening them one by one.
Originality & AI-content detection
Each submission gets a similarity percentage and an AI-generated percentage, with matched excerpts when something looks copied.
Reusable feedback library
Save comments you write often and insert them into any submission's feedback in one click.
Draft-until-you-publish feedback
Write and save feedback privately, then flip it to published when you're ready for students to see it.
Grade history & audit log
Every grade change — manual or AI — is logged with a timestamp so you can see exactly what happened and when.
Inline PDF annotation
Mark up submitted PDFs directly in the grading view instead of switching to a separate tool.
Late submission handling
Late work is flagged with days-late right in the queue, and your late policy applies automatically in the gradebook.
Reusable comment library
Save feedback you write often and insert it into any submission with one click.
Grade & feedback history
See every score change with a timestamp — manual or AI-suggested.
Pop-out rubric window
Keep the rubric visible in its own window while you read the submission.
Anonymous & moderated grading
Turn on anonymous grading per assignment to hide student names, or require a second grader for high-stakes work.
Late policy automation
Late submissions show days-late in the queue and your late penalty applies automatically.
How it works
Up and running in three steps
Open the submission queue
Every submission for an assignment lines up with the rubric attached, oldest or flagged items first.
Let AI draft the grade
Grade one at a time or batch the whole pile — Ember scores against your rubric and drafts feedback.
Review what needs you
Check the originality report, adjust rubric scores, and edit feedback before anything is final.
Publish when ready
Feedback stays in draft until you flip it to published — then students see grades and comments instantly.
“I batch-grade the easy half of the pile and actually spend my time on the essays that need me.”
James Whitfield
History Teacher
FAQ
Common questions
You edit or override any suggested grade or feedback. Nothing posts until you publish it.
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