Who can use this?
- Who: Teachers and co-teachers
- Plans: All plans
- Where: New assignment, then the Writing & Essays card
Before you start
Have the instructions you gave students, as text or a file. A rubric helps; if you don’t have one, the AI drafts it from the instructions and you edit it.What you provide, and what you get
You give GradingPal three things: a title, the instructions, and a rubric. The AI returns a level and points per criterion, overall feedback in the style you chose, and comments placed on the student’s text. Turn on Check grammar and it also lists spelling, grammar, punctuation and capitalisation findings, which never change the score. The student gets the score, the rubric levels, the feedback and the comments. They never see the AI’s analysis.Which steps you’ll see
In Guided, the steps are Type, Details, Rubric, Feedback and Student work.1
Type
Choose Writing & Essays under Open response.
2
Details
Type an Assignment title. Under Instructions, choose Generate with AI to draft them from a description, Upload an assignment to read them from a file, or Write it yourself. Students see the instructions on the assignment, and the AI reads them to grade in context.
3
Rubric, Feedback and Student work
These steps are the same for every open-response type. Set up an assignment with Guided walks through them.
How to tell it worked
The assignment opens on its Submissions tab. Its Assignment tab shows the instructions and the rubric, ready to edit.If something goes wrong
The AI couldn't draft instructions from my file
The AI couldn't draft instructions from my file
“We couldn’t find instructions in that file.” Try a cleaner file, or choose Write it yourself and paste them.
The rubric the AI drafted isn't what I meant
The rubric the AI drafted isn't what I meant
Edit any criterion or level on the Rubric step, or start over with Reuse existing from your library or Import a file.
Related tasks
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Last updated 19 September 2026