EssayGrader is a tool powered by AI aimed at revolutionizing the grading process for teachers by providing accurate and helpful feedback based on the same rubrics used by the grading teacher. Founded by Payton and Ashley Burdette, with the goal of simplifying the grading process and saving educators valuable time, EssayGrader analyzes essays and provides a comprehensive, detailed feedback report with individual and estimated overall scores for each grading criteria. The tool offers several features such as speedy grading, comprehensive feedback, estimated grades, focused feedback, organized essays, show, don't tell, and personalized approach, providing a personalized experience for educators to customize the grading criteria and weight for each criterion.
EssayGrader's focus feedback feature offers an easy-to-use guide for better essays, highlighting common errors and areas of improvement for writers to perfect their writing style and make their essays clearer, more engaging, and more focused. The organized essay feature evaluates the structure of an essay and offers recommendations to improve the essay's structure for better results. Additionally, the tool offers customizable options for educators to provide specific comments and feedback to individual students regarding their essay feedback report, highlighting their strengths and areas that require improvement.
EssayGrader offers a range of pricing plans, from basic to premium, designed to fit different budgets and needs. The basic plan is free to sign up for and is perfect for those who don't need to grade a lot of essays, while the pro plan is designed for educators who grade a lot of essays each month and want access to paid features.
The premium plan is designed for busy professionals who want to take full advantage of the product's capabilities.
TLDR
EssayGrader is a tool powered by AI that provides accurate and helpful feedback based on the same rubrics used by the grading teacher. Its features include speedy grading, comprehensive feedback, estimated grades, focused feedback, organized essays, show, don't tell, and personalized approach. The tool offers an easy-to-use guide for better essays, customizable feedback options, and a range of pricing plans designed to fit different budgets and needs.
Company Overview
EssayGrader is an AI-powered tool designed to simplify the grading process for teachers. Founded by Payton and Ashley Burdette, the product aims to help teachers save time and increase the accuracy of grading student essays. The tool is not a simple error detector, but it provides accurate and helpful writing feedback based on the same rubrics used at work.
Prior to creating EssayGrader, Payton, a software engineer with over a decade of coding experience, noticed his wife Ashley spending a considerable amount of time grading her students' essays. This led them to map out a product plan that could make the process faster, more accurate, and easier. They decided to create EssayGrader, a solution to the problem they experienced first-hand.
The couple then talked with other writing teachers to make the product even better. They listened to the pain points and worked on developing a way to solve them directly within EssayGrader. The product offers a solution to the cumbersome task of grading essays that can take a substantial amount of valuable time away from family time and other important tasks.
EssayGrader offers a practical solution to the problem of grading essays that has been experienced by many teachers for decades. By using AI technology, the tool provides accurate feedback and grading on student essays that are in line with the grading criteria used by the grading teacher. The founders welcome any questions, feedback, and the sharing of grade-related problems that teachers may be experiencing.
Features
Automated Essay Grading
Speedy Grading
EssayGrader's tool is designed to save valuable time for educators who have to grade numerous student essays. The tool scans essays instantly, providing feedback based on grading criteria, saving the educator precious time.
Comprehensive Feedback
The EssayGrader tool analyzes essays and provides a comprehensive, detailed feedback report with individual scores for each grading criteria. This feedback report helps the educators understand their students' writing skills better.
Estimated Grades
EssayGrader's tool can also provide an estimated grade for each grading criteria and an overall grade for the essay, as a starting point for educators to grade assignments more efficiently.
Focused Feedback
Focus
EssayGrader's focus feedback option evaluates if the essay has a clear focus. The tool looks out for abrupt jumps from one topic to another, making it hard for the reader to comprehend the essay's main point.
The focus feedback provides insights on ways to keep the essay on track by sticking to one main idea throughout the paper.
Narrative Techniques
The focus feedback option also analyzes the essay's narrative techniques. The tool detects whether the writer uses descriptive language, imagery, or figurative language to engage the reader. It points out the areas in the essay where the writer could benefit from more detail and vivid language to enhance their narration and make their point clearer for the reader.
Ultimate Guide to Better Essays
EssayGrader's focus feedback feature provides an easy-to-use guide to better essays. The feature highlights common errors and areas of improvement for writers to perfect their writing style and make their essays clearer, more engaging, and more focused.
Organized Essays
Essay Organization
EssayGrader's organized essay feature evaluates the structure of an essay. The tool checks to see if the writer has a well-constructed introduction, body, and conclusion.
The feature assists the writer by highlighting the essay's disorganized areas and recommends ways to improve the essay's structure for better results.
Organization Hierarchy
EssayGrader's organized essay feature assesses the organization hierarchy of an essay. It looks out for abrupt jumps from one topic to another by analyzing the essay's paragraphs and sentences' order.
The tool makes recommendations for the writer to follow a logical essay structure, keeping the reader engaged and interested in their essay.
Intelligent Transitions
EssayGrader's organized essay feedback analyzes the use of transition words and phrases in an essay. The tool ensures that there is consistency in the use of transition words and phrases throughout the essay. It makes recommendations to improve transition placement and usage for better flow and coherence in the essay.
Show, Don't Tell
Language and Vocabulary
EssayGrader's Show, Don't Tell feedback feature evaluates the language and vocabulary used in an essay. The tool detects whether the writer uses sophisticated vocabulary or informal language and slangs. Through this feedback, the tool helps the writer use more precise and varied vocabulary, hence improving the quality of the essay.
Narrative Techniques
The Show, Don't Tell feedback feature analyzes the essay's narrative techniques to determine whether there is enough descriptive language, imagery, or figurative language to engage the reader. The tool evaluates the essay in terms of its ability to convey its point through imagery rather than exposition for better understanding by the reader.
Descriptive Feedback
EssayGrader's Show, Don't Tell feedback feature provides descriptive feedback to the writer, indicating where they need to strengthen their show, don't tell technique. This feature helps the writer improve their descriptive writing by providing them with examples of how to better engage and captivate the reader with vivid and descriptive language.
Personalized Approach
Customizable Criteria
EssayGrader's personalized approach feedback feature allows instructors to customize the grading criteria and weight for each criterion based on their unique preferences. The flexibility in customizing the grading criteria provides instructors with greater control over the assessment grading process.
Individual Student Feedback
EssayGrader's personalized approach feedback feature allows instructors to provide specific comments and feedback to individual students regarding their essay feedback report. The in-depth feedback enables the instructor to give personalized feedback to each student, highlighting their strengths and areas that require improvement.
Opportunities for Professional Development
EssayGrader's personalized approach feedback feature provides opportunities for professional development. The feature enables instructors to access various resources and training opportunities, including webinars and conferences, to improve their grading skills, provide more in-depth feedback, and engage in professional discourse with peers across other schools and universities.
Pricing
EssayGrader offers a range of pricing plans to suit different needs and budgets. The basic plan is free to sign up for and is perfect for those who don't need to grade a lot of essays or just want to test out the product. The pro plan is our most popular option and is designed for educators who grade a lot of essays each month and want access to paid features.
The premium plan is for busy professionals who want to take full advantage of the product's capabilities.
If you're interested in signing up your team, sending an email to [email protected] is the first step. Our team plans are customizable and tailored to the specific needs of each team, so we will ask a few questions about your team size and requirements to provide you with a custom quote.
We understand that each team has different needs and does not require the same features as the next, so we want to work with you to create the perfect plan for your team.
At EssayGrader, we believe that education should be accessible to everyone. That's why we offer a range of plans to fit different budgets, from free to premium.
Signing up for our basic or pro plan is simple and can be upgraded within the app at any time. If you're an educator or busy professional looking to take your grading practice to the next level, choose the plan that best fits your needs and budget, and start revolutionizing the way you grade and assess writing assignments today.
FAQ
How much does it cost to grade an essay on EssayGrader?
Each time an essay is graded on EssayGrader, it costs money based on the size of the essay. Additionally, there are costs associated with the domain name, database/server hosting, development time, and AI detection.
How do I upgrade my plan on EssayGrader?
To upgrade your plan on EssayGrader, visit your profile page and select the pro or premium plan option.
Is the AI detector a paid feature on EssayGrader?
Yes, the AI detector is a paid feature on EssayGrader. A pro or premium plan subscription is required to access this feature.
Is EssayGrader intended to replace teachers when grading papers?
Absolutely not. EssayGrader is meant to assist teachers while grading papers.
This product can offer more accurate grading and speed up the grading process, but teachers are still the professionals and will know more than our product can offer. Think of us as a grading assistant.
What kind of data is the AI model on EssayGrader trained on?
The AI model used by EssayGrader is trained on massive amounts of diverse text data, including books, articles, and websites. While the model is very smart and accurate, it's not perfect yet. As the model learns more, it will become even smarter and a greater asset to teachers.
