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The Rubric! Studio

AI-assisted grading for teachers. Score in-class handwritten answers against your own rubric, faster, with your final say on every grade.

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The problem

Grading by hand eats the hours you do not have.

In-class handwritten work is some of the most honest work a student produces, and some of the slowest to grade. A single stack can swallow an evening, and the last paper rarely gets the same attention as the first.

Students and parents now expect grades that are fast, consistent, and defensible. A tired grader at 11pm is none of those things.

The approach

It accelerates your scoring. It does not replace your judgment.

The Rubric! Studio reads a scanned handwritten answer and drafts a score against your own rubric, criterion by criterion, with a short rationale for each.

You stay in charge. You review the draft, adjust anything you disagree with, and the final grade is yours on every single paper. The tool does the first pass so you can spend your time on the calls that actually need a teacher.

How it works

From a stack of scans to grades you can defend.

Create a grading job: one question, plus your rubric. Each criterion has a label, its maximum points, and a short description of what earns full marks.

Paste your class roster as simple "Name, Student ID" lines.

Upload the answers as photos or as a multi-page PDF. PDFs are split into one page per answer right in your browser, and images are shrunk before anything is uploaded.

Start grading. It runs in the background, so you can close the tab and come back later.

Review each paper: the scan, the student it was matched to, a transcript of what was written, and a draft score with a rationale on every criterion.

Confirm or override each line, then export the results to CSV. The recorded grade is the one you decided, not what the tool guessed.

Knows whose paper is whose

It matches each paper to the right student.

The studio reads the name and student ID written on each page and matches it to your roster. When a match is uncertain, it flags the paper for you instead of guessing.

One setup tip makes this work well: ask each student to print their full name (and student ID, if you use one) legibly in the top-left corner of every sheet. You can still reassign any paper during review.

Reads more than prose

Handwriting, math, and diagrams, not just typed text.

Advanced AI vision transcribes handwritten prose, writes out the math it reads, and notes what a diagram or sketch shows. It works from the page itself, so you are not retyping anything.

Every criterion comes back with a draft score and a short rationale tied to the wording of your rubric, so you can see why a mark was suggested before you accept it or change it.

Consistency

The same rubric, applied the same way, all the way down the stack.

Because every paper is read against the same criteria, the tenth answer gets the same standard as the first. When a student asks why they earned a grade, you have a rationale tied to the rubric you can show them.

Built for instructors at US high schools and colleges, and for the department chairs and academic leaders who want consistent, defensible grading across every section. It is a consistency aid, checked by you, not a black box that hands out marks.

Part of the teacher suite

One class, planned, graded, and recommended.

Keep a class here once (a name and a roster) and the three tools share it. The Syllabus! Planner drafts the course, and each written assessment hands off to this studio as a ready-to-review grading job, questions and rubric already drafted. Pick your class on a new job and its roster copies over, so you skip the paste step.

When you finish reviewing a student's grade, the row offers to draft their recommendation letter in The Letter! Desk, with that graded work carried along as evidence, described in words, never as a raw score. See a sample grading job for one class's whole Plan, Grade, and Recommend story.

See The Syllabus! Planner
Privacy & FERPA

Student work stays in your workspace.

Scans are stored privately in your workspace. Grading runs through an AI provider's API under terms that do not use your data to train their models, and we never use student work to train our own.

The Rubric! Studio is FERPA-aware and operates under your institution's direction; you remain the decision-maker on every grade.

Pricing

Grade as many class sets as you like.

Grading is free for every signed-in account, with no page limits.

Any EduFinder member can sign in and start grading right away; there is no waitlist and no application. If you do not have an account yet, you can create one in a minute.

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Fair questions, straight answers.

What we would want to know before trusting a grading tool.

How much does The Rubric! Studio cost?

Grading is free for every signed-in account, with no page limits.

What can I upload?

Upload your scanned answers as photos or as a multi-page PDF. Each photo is one page, and each page of a student's PDF is one page; a failed upload is never counted.

Is my students' work safe? What about FERPA?

Scans are stored privately in your workspace. Grading runs through an AI provider's API under terms that do not use your data to train their models, and we never use student work to train our own. The Rubric! Studio is FERPA-aware and operates under your institution's direction.

Does the AI decide my students' grades?

No. It drafts a score and a short rationale for each rubric criterion, and you review every paper, adjust anything you disagree with, and decide the final grade. The recorded grade is always yours.

What file formats can I upload?

Student answers go in as JPG or PNG photos, or as a PDF that is split into one page per answer right in your browser. Your rubric can be typed in directly or imported from a Word, Excel, or typed PDF file.

Does it work with the other teacher tools?

Yes. Plan a course in The Syllabus! Planner and each written assessment has a 'Build this in The Rubric! Studio' button that drafts the questions and rubric as a ready-to-review grading job; the curriculum then tracks each job's status, and every job links back. Keep a class in your account and a new job can copy its roster instead of pasting names. And when you finish reviewing a student's grade, the row offers to draft their recommendation letter in The Letter! Desk, with that graded work carried along as evidence.