How AI grading works - GradingPal Help

This page is for the cautious teacher and the administrator. It says what happens to a piece of student work between upload and your review.

What it reads

Three things: the student’s work, your instructions, and either your rubric or your answer key. If you added handout materials, it reads those for context. It does not read other students’ work while grading one student, and it never sees the rest of the class.

The two paths

	Open response	Question based
The AI judges against	Criteria you wrote or approved, one level at a time	An answer key you approved, one question at a time
What it produces	A level per criterion, the reasoning behind it, quoted evidence from the work, feedback, and comments on the text	A recorded answer per question, a score computed against the key, and feedback with strengths and improvements
Where judgment comes in	Choosing the level and writing the feedback	Only on rubric-graded questions. Multiple choice, true/false, matching and ordering are computed from the recorded answer, not judged

When it declines to score

If a criterion needs evidence the AI can’t see, it doesn’t guess. The card reads Needs your review with the reason, and offers Grade it myself or Add context & regrade. A note marked For your attention means it graded but wants you to check something. Both are visible only to you.

Where you stay in the loop

Every submission lands in Needs review. You can change any level or points, with a reason; rewrite any feedback; and ask the assistant for changes it proposes and you approve. Nothing reaches a student until you share.

What it never does

It does not decide when students see anything. You do, by sharing.
It does not show students its analysis. The reasoning, the evidence quotes and your override reasons are stripped before a page is sent to a student. Who can see what
It does not detect plagiarism or AI-written work, and GradingPal declines instructions that ask it to. Those checks are unreliable and misfire on students writing in a second language.
It does not curve, rank, or hold a floor across the class. Each student is graded alone.
Grammar findings never change a score.

Who can see what

Teacher, co-teacher, student, school.

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Last updated 19 September 2026

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​What it reads

​The two paths

​When it declines to score

​Where you stay in the loop

​What it never does

​What to read next