Grading eats hours that could go into actual teaching. AI won't replace your judgment on a student's work, but it can remove a huge amount of the mechanical load around it.
Use AI for a first-pass rubric check
Feed in your rubric and a submission, and ask AI to flag where criteria are clearly met or clearly missing. You make the final call — but the first scan happens in seconds, not minutes.
Draft feedback, then personalize it
Instead of writing feedback from scratch for every student, have AI draft based on your notes, then edit for tone and specificity. It's faster than writing cold and more consistent than rushing at 11pm.
Batch similar errors
If ten students made the same mistake, AI can help you draft one clear explanation to paste and lightly customize, instead of writing the same correction ten separate times.
Keep the final judgment yours
AI-assisted grading works because you're still the one deciding what's right. The moment you stop reading the actual work, you've lost the thing grading was for in the first place.