You Have 120 Essays and a Weekend
Searching for "AI essay grading" usually means one thing: the marking queue is winning. Here is the honest version of the help: this tool drafts first-pass feedback against your rubric — you still read every essay, edit every comment, and set every grade. The drafting hours shrink; the judgment stays yours.
This page fills in a draft from a template. Copy prompt gives you the prompt for any AI chat.
The workflow: human in the loop, visibly
Paste, review the AI draft, edit, apply your grade. The AI touches step 2 only.
Paste the essay and your rubric
Paste a student essay along with the rubric or criteria you already use. The tool reads both — your rubric defines what the feedback talks about.
AI drafts first-pass feedback
The tool produces draft comments organized by your criteria: what the essay does well, where the argument thins, which passages need revision attention. Drafts, not verdicts — and no scores.
You read the essay and edit the draft
The instructor reads the essay as always. The AI draft accelerates the writing of feedback, not the reading or the judgment — edit freely, delete freely, personalize what reaches the student.
You decide the grade
Grading happens where it always has: in the instructor’s judgment, after reviewing the work. This tool does not assign scores, and nothing moves anywhere without you.
What this tool does not do
- ✕It does not assign grades or scores — not to an essay, not to a criterion, not as a "suggestion."
- ✕It does not submit anything to any gradebook. There is no gradebook connection.
- ✕It does not evaluate academic integrity or detect plagiarism or AI-written text.
- ✕It does not send anything to students. Feedback reaches a student only if the instructor sends it.
Instructor review is required before any feedback reaches a student, by design.
Why feedback drafting is the right way to use AI on essays
The bottleneck is drafting, not judging
English teachers commonly carry marking queues in the hundreds per cycle — NCTE’s work on writing assessment documents the load. Most of the hours go into composing individualized comments, not into forming the judgment. Drafting is exactly the step AI accelerates safely, because the instructor still reads the work and owns every word that survives the edit.
Faster feedback beats exhaustive feedback
Research on teacher feedback and student revision behavior supports a practical truth: feedback that arrives while the assignment is still alive drives more revision than perfect feedback that arrives two weeks later. A reviewed-and-edited AI draft tomorrow beats a hand-composed comment after the unit has moved on.
Why human review is non-negotiable
ETS’s decades of automated-essay-scoring research document both the reliability of machine scoring on constrained tasks and its documented weaknesses — including bias patterns on non-standard discourse and non-native writing. That evidence is exactly why this tool stays on the feedback-drafting side of the line: the machine drafts language; the human judges writing.
Get the drafting hours back — keep the judgment
The teacher reads the essay. The teacher sets the grade. Always.
- No student accounts.
- No ads.
- Data-processing agreement on request.
What this page does here
This page builds a draft from a template on this device. Copy prompt gives you the prompt for any AI chat.
Questions teachers ask
Does this tool automatically assign essay grades?
No — and that is a design decision, not a missing feature. The tool drafts feedback comments organized by your rubric. It produces no scores, and there is nothing to "auto-post": grades are decided by the instructor after reading the essay, exactly as before. If you want a tool that grades for you, this is not it, and we would encourage skepticism toward any tool that says it is.
How does the AI essay feedback tool work — what does the teacher do?
Four steps: paste the essay and your rubric; receive draft feedback organized by your criteria; read the essay and edit the draft — cut, correct, personalize; then decide the grade yourself. The AI can speed up the writing of feedback. The reading, the judgment, and the grade remain the instructor’s work.
Is the essay feedback tool free to use?
You sign in with a free account to use the tool, and Improve with AI uses your own AI key.
What essay types and subjects does it support?
Argumentative, analytical, and expository writing across humanities and social science subjects work best, because the feedback tracks rubric criteria like thesis, evidence, and organization. Lab reports and technical writing work when your rubric names the criteria. Creative writing feedback is possible but benefits from heavier instructor editing — voice judgments belong to humans.
How does a teacher verify the AI-generated feedback is accurate and fair?
The same way you verify any draft: read the essay. The workflow assumes it — the draft is a starting point that the instructor confirms against the actual text before anything reaches a student. Treat surprising claims in a draft as prompts to re-read the passage, and delete anything you would not say in your own voice. The tool saves composition time only when the review step is real.
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