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GradingPal has four screens that matter. Everything else is a dialog on top of one of them.

The four screens

At the top of every screen: New assignment, Library, a usage chip, and your account menu. There’s no global search; the class rail and the tabs are the way around.

Tours

Six screens have a guided tour that starts itself the first time you open them: the home dashboard, the assignment workspace, Instant setup, and the three grading screens. To replay one, add ?tour=1 to that screen’s address, or select Take a tour from the screen’s menu, or from Learn & support on the dashboard. That’s the thing people ask for most and can’t find.

Checklists

Three checklists tick themselves off as you work. Get started with GradingPal floats at the bottom right of the dashboard with five steps, from adding students to seeing your class insights. Assignment steps floats on each assignment and follows it from collecting work to sharing. A class Overview has Finish setting up this class, with Set up standards and an optional Invite a co-teacher. One gotcha: Minimize on the assignment checklist minimises it on every assignment, but Hide checklist and Dismiss checklist apply to that assignment only.

Hotspots

Small dots that explain one control, then go quiet once you select Got it. There are four: the batch scan control (“Scanned a stack of work at once?”), the Ask GradingPal button, Adjust pages on the question-based grading screen, and the compare toggle when reviewing the assistant’s suggestions.

Where Support is

A vertical Support tab [2] sits on the left edge of every teacher screen. It opens a chat with a person. A Feedback tab sits just above it. Every escalation on this site points at Support; Get help says what to include.

Grade your first assignment

All four screens in twenty minutes.

What each status means

The pills on every row.

Last updated 19 September 2026

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