Write your activity
Type your questions in an editor that looks like the printed page, with sections, instructions and points. It saves as you type, so nothing gets lost.
Grade an activity in two seconds.
Hold your phone over each answer sheet and it takes the photo by itself. gradekit checks the bubbles and the handwriting against your key, and you only look at the answers it flags.
Students write on paper. They need no phone and no account.
Sample paper, Set A. Graded as you watch.
From a blank page to a graded stack, in four steps.
You already know how to give an activity on paper. gradekit takes over the slow part: checking every answer on every paper.
Print it in sets
Pick how many sets and the paper: short bond, long bond or A4. Each set shuffles the questions and choices and keeps its own answer key, so one student’s paper won’t line up with the next.
Scan with your phone
Open the scan page from a QR code, with no app and no sign-in. Hold your phone over each paper and it takes the photo by itself, so you move through the stack without tapping a thing. Photos and PDFs work too.
Check only what’s flagged
Everything gradekit is sure about comes back marked, grouped by set and student name. You look at the few answers it flagged, and the stack is done.
Every question on the page gets read.
Answer sheet scanners stop at the shaded circles, so the written part still lands on your desk. gradekit reads that too, from one-word answers to lists and essays. It checks short answers against your key and hands only the judgment calls back to you.
How it is readOn the answer sheetWhat you see in gradekit
From the bubbles
Multiple choice · True or false
Read from the shaded bubble. Label true or false as True and False, Tama and Mali, or a pair of your own.
1
Shaded B, key B
Correct5
Shaded Tama, key Tama
CorrectFrom the handwriting
Identification · Enumeration
Read from what the student wrote, then matched to your key, strictly or leniently: you choose for each activity. Lists count in any order.
7
Read as: chlorophyl
CorrectKey: chlorophyll (lenient)
93/3
nucleus, cell wall, vacuole
All three found, any order.
Typed out for you
Essay · Problem solving
Typed out beside your rubric and the scanned page, so a stack of essays reads fast. gradekit never scores them. You give the points.
10 · Typed out
To gradeChlorophyll takes in red and blue light and bounces the green back to our eyes.
Your rubric
Names chlorophyll (2). Explains why green is seen (3).
Your points
/ 5You have the last word on every score.
gradekit does the checking. You decide what counts.
Unsure means Needs review.
A blurry photo, a name it can’t read, an essay waiting for points: these wait in Needs review instead of being guessed.
The scan sits beside the key.
Every written answer shows the cropped handwriting next to your key, so checking takes a glance.
Your change never erases the reading.
Overrides are kept apart from what gradekit read. Both stay visible, and you can undo.
Juan dela Cruz
Science 8: Cells and Energy · Set A
Score 11/13
8. The stiff layer outside a plant cell’s membrane. (1 point)
Scan
8.Cell wal
Read as
Cell wal
Your key
Cell wall
Correct, marked by you
gradekit read “Cell wal” and marked it wrong. That reading is kept beside your change.
Needs review 2Done 31No name 1Sample data
Questions teachers ask
Plain answers about paper, phones and scores.
- What kinds of questions can gradekit check?
- Multiple choice and true or false are read from the shaded bubbles. Identification and enumeration are read from the handwriting and checked against your key, strictly or leniently. Essays and worked solutions are typed out beside your rubric, and you give the points.
- Do my students need phones or laptops?
- No. Students answer on paper with a pen or pencil, the way they always have. Only you need a phone, to scan.
- Do I need a scanner?
- No. Open the scan page on your phone with a QR code; there’s nothing to install and no sign-in on the phone. Hold it over each paper and it takes the photo when the sheet is in view. You can also upload photos or PDFs from your computer.
- Do I need special answer sheets?
- No. gradekit lays out the answer sheet with your activity, and you print it on short bond, long bond or A4 from any ordinary printer, in black ink. A question never gets split across two pages.
- Can I give different sets so students don’t copy?
- Yes. Choose how many sets to print. Each set mixes up the order of the questions and the choices, and gradekit keeps a separate answer key for each one. A small barcode on every page tells it which set and page it’s looking at.
- How does it read handwriting?
- A vision model reads each written answer from the scan. It never sees your answer key, so it reports what the student wrote rather than what it expects. gradekit then compares that reading with your key, strictly or leniently, which you choose for each activity.
- Does it grade essays on its own?
- No. It types each essay and worked solution out next to your rubric and the scanned page, so you can read quickly. You give the points.
- What if a photo is blurry or a name can’t be read?
- gradekit flags it rather than guessing. Blurry pages and unclear answers go to Needs review, and papers without a readable name go to No name, where you type it in.
- Can I change a score?
- Always. Mark any answer right or wrong, or change its points. Your change is kept beside what gradekit read, so nothing is lost.
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