Gradescope by Turnitin is a versatile application and online platform designed to facilitate the processes of creating, distributing, grading, and analyzing assessments for educators.

Features: Gradescope leverages AI to offer an automated grading system that streamlines the assessment process. Gradescope accommodates a wide array of assignment types including PDF, online, programming, and bubble sheet assignments, with students having the option to upload PDFs or photos of their work for evaluation.

Gradescope can also sort student responses into groups and grade them collectively, significantly reducing the time spent on individual assessments. The AI can autonomously categorize answers into groups for certain question types.

Grades can be downloaded swiftly with a simple click or keystroke, and promptly returned to students, expediting the feedback cycle. Gradescope is equipped to handle a variety of assignment types, ranging from extensive projects to quizzes and bubble sheets.

Tom’s Take: If you’re looking for an AI grading system that’s both full of features and intuitive, then you should look no further than Gradescope. It’s easy to use and easy to submit student work and it can handle a wide range of grading situations. It also offers handy a regrade option and helps with rubric creation. And if your school or intuition already has a subscription with Turnitin, well it’s a no-brainer.

But if your school doesn’t have a subscription, you may be hard pressed to get access to it as an individual subscriber. So, know your grading needs well because they might be met adequately by a cheaper AI tool.

Price: Contact for institution pricing. It’s not listed on their website. According to Software Survey, the Gradescope Basic plan costs $1 per student.

Canvas is popular Learning Management System (LMS) with a wide range of grading and feedback options.

Features: Canvas provides an array of assessment features. For one, Canvas provides real-time assessment of student responses during a live class or event. It also can automatically grade student assessments and provide detailed reports Furthermore, Canvas offers analytics dashboards to visualize student assessment results.

More specifically, Canvas offers four different types of quizzes: A graded quiz, practice quiz, graded survey, and ungraded survey. Canvas also offers a SpeedGrader feature, which enables instructors to view and grade student assignment submissions in one place and also accepts a range of document types. Some of these document formats can be marked up for feedback directly within Canvas. So, you can provide feedback to your students on essays and other types of written work. Moreover, teachers can create text, video, and/or audio commentary for students. The Canvas Gradebook stores student results, measuring both letter grades and “course outcomes”.

Canvas also offers MasteryPaths in which a student's score determines their assigned learning path. Score high and a student could be assigned more advanced work, score low and the student might be directed to assignments for content clarification.

Tom’s Take: I used Canvas for years to instruct and administer online courses and was impressed with its features and flexibility. My students were mostly pleased with its performance as well. In all, it addresses many formative and summative assessment needs.

That said, it takes time to create a well-organized and effective administrative system with Canva and some of the tools can be clunky to use.

Price: Canvas is sold to school districts and universities, not directly to teachers. So, check if your school or district has a license.

ChatGPT is a conversational AI chatbot from OpenAI that can complete many assessment tasks quickly and efficiently.

Features: ChatGPT is a versatile platform that can undertake almost any written assessment task, including grading quizzes, tests, and essays.

ChatGPT can also help you create a rubric, find a rubric, or simply use the rubric that you provide. It can also help you find and incorporate state standards, writing guides, or other resources to enhance your assessment performance.

ChatGPT is more flexible than most dedicated AI grader tools because the user has more flexibility when it comes to creating prompts — instructions for what you want (and don’t want) ChatGPT to do. ChatGPT also allows for uploading of documents (ex. scoring guides), which some AI graders do not allow.

Tom’s Take: Big picture, there are two fundamental choices when it comes to grading student work with AI. One is to opt for a general AI chatbot like ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot (Bing Chat), or Google Gemini (Google Bard). The other is to use a dedicated AI grading system, like those listed on this page.

If you’re comfortable creating AI prompts (and working with PDF documents) you should strongly consider using an AI chatbot like ChatGPT for your grading tasks. AI chatbots are more flexible than AI grading systems, and you can upload important contextual documents — such as state standards, writing guides, rubrics, and more — that you may not be able to upload to an AI grader.

But to leverage ChatGPT effectively, teachers need to create effective prompts. Speciality AI grading tools, on the other hand, offer pre-constructed prompts to simply the process of generating relevant and appropriate content.

if you are comfortable creating AI prompts and want more control and flexibility when it comes to prompting in AI grading, then I’d recommend you use an AI chatbot like ChatGPT.

Price: Free to use version 3.5. Version 4.0 costs $20/month

Quizgecko is an AI-driven tool that swiftly transforms any text into quiz questions, flashcards, and notes and includes automatic grading of quizzes.

Features: With Quizgecko, teachers can craft a variety of question styles, including multiple-choice, true or false, short essay answers, and fill-in-the-blanks. You can also upload documents in formats like PDFs, DOCs, and PPTs to curate quizzes.

In addition, teachers can set quizzes to match specifications, such as time limits and randomized questions. Beyond this, Quizgecko enhances the learning experience with AI-enhanced features like automatic grading and insightful reports. It’s also easy to share quizzes, and they can be exported in text or csv formats.

Quizgecko also has advanced features to customize the question type, level, and language of various quiz questions.

Tom’s Take: Quizgecko is a great option for creating and grading quizzes and offers innovative AI features not seen in Kahoot or Quizizz. For instance, Quizgecko can transform a webpage, or a YouTube video into a quiz or assessment. In addition, Quizgecko not only grades short-answer questions, but offers suggestions on how to improve and attain a higher score. So, its AI-powered feedback can help learners understand their mistakes. In all, Quizgecko offers some impressive and advanced features into quiz generation, scoring, and feedback.

Price: Its free plan includes 3 quizzes a month. The premium Educator plan is $79/year and features unlimited quizzes.

Zipgrade is a grading app that allows teachers to scan and grade multiple-choice tests using their mobile devices.

Features: With Zipgrade, teachers can print their own answer sheets, create custom keys, view item analysis, export results to CSV or PDF files, and share reports with students and parents.

Teachers can use their smartphone or tablet camera to scan the answer sheets and can also scan multiple answer sheets at once. Teachers can see the scores and grades of each student as soon as they scan the answer sheets. They can also review the answers, mark them as correct or incorrect, or add comments or notes. Teachers can see the distribution of scores and grades, the difficulty level of each question, the percentage of correct answers, and more.

Teachers can export the results to CSV or PDF files, or upload them to Google Drive or Dropbox. They can also email or print the reports, or share them with students and parents via QR codes or web links.

Tom’s Take: ZipGrade is designed to grade multiple choice tests and this app/website will certainly help you do that quickly. You basically use your phone to scan printable bubble sheets and then analyze the data from tests. It’s intuitive, accurate, and relatively cheap. It get 4+ stars on the App Store, though the reviews are from years back. But it does little beyond multiple-choice grading and its features pale in comparison to Gradescope and Canvas. That said, Zipgrade is a convenient and efficient tool that provides instant feedback and analysis — and saves paper.

Price: It’s only $6.99 for a year of unlimited scanning. The free plan has a limit of 100 papers per month.

Quizizz is a popular quiz platform designed for K-12 teachers and offers special AI-infused features.

Features: With Quizizz, teachers can create create gamified quizzes and interactive lessons and students can access questions and answers on their own devices. Teachers have the option of enabling live or student-paced session sessions.

In 2023 Quizizz introduced Quizizz AI Enhance (beta), a personalized teaching assistant to help teachers customize their Quizizz activities. Quizizz leverages AI to automatically fix spelling mistakes, simplify questions, or translate into another language. Quizizz AI Enhance also includes an option to “convert to real-world scenarios”, for instance showing how a math activity might manifest itself in the real world.

As for grading and reports, Quizizz can automatically grade quizzes or you can grade them manually. You can also set custom grades and generate and share quiz reports.

Tom’s Take: Quizizz is great for creating fun and engaging quizzes with memes, music, videos, and animations and it allows you to play live or assign quizzes for self-paced learning.

With Quizizz AI Enhance, the option to convert activities to real-world scenarios is especially intriguing and I’ve been experimenting with different scenarios in Math, Science, and Civics. It’s a unique feature that can help make learning activities more relevant and engaging for students.

Price: Basic free account up to 20 activities. Individual account $3/month. School and District plans by quote only

Edpuzzle is an interactive video platform that enables teachers to embed questions directly into videos watched by students.

Features: Edpuzzle allows instructors to embed questions (such as multiple-choice and short-answer) directly into videos. When students respond to questions, Edpuzzle provides instant feedback. Teachers can use this feature to reinforce concepts and address misconceptions. Edpuzzle also offers real-time analytics and a library of video lessons across various subjects, many aligned to standards.

Edpuzzle also offers Teacher Assist, an AI feature that automatically generates questions that teachers can add to video assignments. These questions can be incorporated into a teacher’s own videos or into existing content.

Edupuzzle also integrates with popular learning managaement systems (like Google Classroom, Canvas, Schoology, and Moodle) and is also COPPA compliant, protecting student privacy.

Tom’s Take: Edpuzzle offers an impressive range of interactive features to engage learners and assess their progress. It also offers a great range of standards-aligned lessons from its bountiful library.

Edpuzzle allows students to work directly in the platform, enabling teachers to gather helpful data for analyzing student progress. And its embedded questions help keep students active and focused.

I’ve demonstrated Edpuzzle’s features to many teachers over the years and the reception has been overwhelmingly positive, with many teachers reporting that Edupuzzle is a great active-learning platform.

Price: Edupuzzle has a free plan with limited storage and a Pro plan for individual teachers with unlimited projects that costs $13.50 per month.

Wooclap is an interactive questions platform that helps educators engage students, measure their understanding, and track participation in real-time.

Features: With Wooclap you can choose between 20+ question types (e.g. MCQ, word cloud, Find on image, whiteboard) or use Wooclap AI to generate quizzes in seconds from any topic or teaching material in seconds. With Wooclap’s generative AI, teachers can create questions from an audio file, such as a music or speech, a hyperlink to a webpage, images, PDFs, and more. If you wish, you can Integrate them seamlessly into your presentation and share it with your students.

Wooclap has also introduced a few unique features. One is Create a "Framework." This framework enables teachers to foster collaborative learning and concrete visualization of concepts. Teachers create a "Framework" within a Wooclap event and then import an image. Teachers can then define select areas of the image and save as a Framework for discussion, collaboration, etc. Other interesting features include Create a Script Concordance Test and Create a Judgment Concordance Test and Wooclap offers many complimentary features, such as a timer, poll, slide, and much more.

Wooclap is connected to important teaching systems (LMS, Teams, Zoom, PowerPoint, etc.) and supports all teaching models: in class, remote, synchronous, and asynchronous. More than two million educators use Wooclap at leading universities around the globe, including the University of Ottawa, Cape Town University, Duke University and many more.

Tom’s Take: In all, Wooclap is intuitive, flexible, and powerful. And it’s reasonably priced. For those who have used Mentimeter, Wooclap will feel familiar. But wooclap is a far more innovative and versatile product.

Price: Free up to 2 questions. Basic plan is $6.99/month with unlimited questions.

Quizlet enables users to generate flashcards containing terms and definitions and assess their mastery of content.

Features: Teachers have the option to create their own flashcard sets or choose from the millions of sets produced by other users. Sets can be used in various learning activities and modes to assist students in learning, memorizing, and mastering content. With Quizlet Test, a teacher can input correct and incorrect responses, and the assessment will be automatically graded. "Quizlet Live" allows teachers to use flashcards in a live, cooperative game-based setting.

In 2023, Quizlet launched four generative tools powered by AI: Magic Notes, Memory Score, Quick Summary, and Expert Solutions. With Magic Notes, students can upload their notes and convert them into study aids. The Memory Score feature enables students to gauge their familiarity with the material and plan reviews. The Quick Summary feature assists students in retaining key concepts from dense readings, and Expert Solutions provide students with step-by-step instructions on how to tackle various homework problems.

Quizlet’s aforementioned generative AI-powered tools go beyond the AI infusion seen in Quizizz and Kahoot (its popular competitors). That said, Quizizz features and more strictly aligned to quiz generation than Quizlet or Kahoot. But all three are excellent platforms.

Tom’s Take: Quizlet is excellent and I’ve used it for years both as a teacher and a student. For years Quizlet has incorporated AI and has collaborated with OpenAI since 2020. Along the way, Quizlet has introduced new AI capabilities to provide users with tutoring assistance, and teacher with assessment features.

Price: There is a free account with limited features. Quizlet Plus has additional features at $7.99 a month. Quizlet Teacher Plus costs $15.99 a month and includes class creation and monitoring of student progress.

Teachermate.ai (not to be confused with TeachMateAI) is an AI-powered assessment tool that helps teachers assess student work.

Features: Teachers can leverage GPT4 technology to generate detailed and human-like responses to students’ writing. Teachers can paste or upload student work and also input their own assessment criteria. They can also opt for short or detailed responses. In addition, Teachermate.ai offers three assessment setting — Max Response, Temperature, and Top P — that can help fine-tune assessments.

Tom’s Take: I tried Teachermate.ai by pasting a couple of high school essays and was impressed with the insightful and natural-sounding critique that the Ai generated. I also like that teachers can draw student work from Google Classroom into teachermate.com.

Price: Free plan limited to 5 requests a month and uses GPT 3.5. Paid plan is $9/month and includes 50 requests a month and GPT-4.

Designed by a former teacher, MagicSchool.ai is an AI-powered platform that offers over 60 tools to assist educators. Included are a series of assessment features for educators.

Features: MagicSchool.ai provides a great range tools designed to streamline the lesson planning and assessment process. To assist teachers with assessment, MagicSchool AI offers a Rubric Generator as well as a Diagnostic Assessment Generator for multiple-choice diagnostic assessment on any topic.

Furthermore, the Multiple Choice Quiz Generator can generate a multiple choice quiz and answer key based on any text, and the Reading Quiz Generator can create a multiple-choice reading quiz and answer key based on any text. Other tools include a Student Work Feedback TooI that identifies areas of strength and areas for growth and Text Proofreader Tool can take any text and have it proofread, correcting grammar, spelling, punctuation and adding clarity.

Tom’s Take: MagicSchool offers a great range of assessment tools to assist teachers, but students cannot sign in to the system. So, formative assessment is not an option. And you’re limited in what you can upload into the system to guide your grading.

Price: As of January 2024, MagicSchool is only offering limited free features. For unlimited usage and plus features the cost is $8.33/month.

Created by ex-teachers, Eduaide is a powerful AI-driven teaching assistant with over 100 educational resources, including assessment tools.

Features: Eduaide helps teachers create lesson plans, teaching resources, assignment feedback, assessments, and more.

To burnish its lesson plans offerings, Eduaide offers “lesson seeds”, which include lesson rubrics, engagement activities, quizzes, worksheets, slides, and more.

Its Feedbot category enables teachers to paste in the students work and receive feedback based on various categories — including custom feedback based on your own rubric. In its Assessment category teachers can input a teaching objective or standards based information and Eduaide will generate various types of questions, such as Multiple Choice and Fill-in-Blank.

Tom’s Take: Eduaide is a flexible and wide-ranging lesson planning and assessment tool. But, like MagicSchool, Eduaide does not provide immediate student assistance while studying, as it does not collect or track student data. So, it cannot be used for formative assessment.

Price: Eduaide was free up to 300 generations a month, but as of January 2024 that was reduced to 15 generations/month. For unlimited access to all tools and resources you’ll pay $5.99/month.

Conker Ai is designed to simplify quiz creation for teachers.

Features: Conker offers both custom quiz creation and access to ready-made, standards-aligned assessments. Conker Ai leverages artificial intelligence to generate diverse quizzes with various question types: Multiple-Choice, Read&Respond, Fill-in-the-blank, and Mixed. It also features 1000s of ready-made, K12 standards-aligned assessments.

Educators can adapt existing quizzes to suit student needs, differentiate between learner groups, and export quizzes to platforms like Google Forms or Canvas LMS.

Conker AI creates an answer key, and syncs with Google Forms, facilitating an efficient and effective assessment system

Tom’s Take: Conker AI’s user-friendly interface certainly facilitates intuitive quiz design. One great feature is that users can simply copy and pasting select text, choosing the grade and quiz type, and quickly generate multipart questions. And any reading material of up to 1,200 words can be used to create a quiz quickly.

But Conker is not a grading system, so you’ll have to export your quiz into a LMS to create one. As of this moment, Conker AI integrates with Canvas, but does not appear to integrate with Google Classroo.

Price: The free plan is limited to 5 quizzes and 50 responses, while the basic plan costs $3.99 a month and allows for 10 quizzes and 100 responses.

PanQuiz is an AI-powered learning app that allows teachers to create online quizzes, tests, and assessments. It's designed to make the process of creating and grading quizzes more efficient and personalized.

Features: The PanQuiz app uses AI to generate real-time quizzes, enabling teachers to assess their students understanding quickly and accurately. Questions are designed to be displayed on a screen and students respond with various devices, including smartphones and tablets.

Teachers can create quizzes or tests with their own images, or choose from an archive of millions of pictures, and can set a timer. Teachers can see student answers in real time, via charts, and various effects, and can share student responses with colleagues.

Teachers can set a passing score; students who pass a quiz and PanQuiz automatically awards a passing certificate

PanQuiz is available for free for primary and secondary school teachers.

Tom’s Take: PanQuiz lacks the range of quiz features found at Quizizz and Quizlet, but it’s a handy, free option for real-time classroom assessment.

Price: Free

Questgen aims to simplify the process of creating quiz assessments and generates a variety of question types, including multiple choice questions, true/false questions, and higher-order questions.

Features: Questgen is able to create various types of questions across a wide range of subjects. Questgen can convert any text into a quiz within seconds, enabling teachers to quickly generate quizzes based on existing materials. As mentioned, question types include multiple choice questions, true/false questions, and higher-order questions.

Higher-order question generators include: AI Higher Order Question Generator, AI Bloom's Taxonomy Quiz Generator, and AI Bloom's Taxonomy MCQ Generator. Most higher-order questions are based on one of the six levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy that are used to categorize questions on levels of their learning objective.

Questgen is also able to generate quizzes from URLS, PDFs, and images. And you can dowload the quizzes in several formats.

Tom’s Take: There are plenty of AI-infused quiz questions generators, but few have specific “higher-order” question generators. Questgen is one of the more well-rounded quiz question generators I’ve come across. But, Questgen won’t grade student work directly, so you’ll have to download the quiz and import into an LMS or some other assessment system.

Price: Free for up to 20 “runs” or $15 month for unlimited.