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Product updates, grading research, and practical guidance on AI-assisted grading — written by the professors who build and use Gradebot™.
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Gradebot September 2026 Release
Gradebot's September 2026 release expands the platform beyond AI-assisted grading with new capabilities designed to make the instructor workflow easier, more consistent, and more insightful. This release introduces three major capabilities: Late Penalty, a new Help Agent, and Course Insight capabilities that help instructors learn from Gradebot grading results at the class level. We have also made a number of usability improvements across the product.
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Inside the Test Harness: How We Validated Gradebot's Grading Accuracy
From Traditional Testing to Quality Engineering CoE What Is Gradebot? Gradebot is an AI grading assistant built by professors to give instructors rubric-aligned, defensible grades in a fraction of the time. Instructors bring their own rubric — or generate one from an assignment prompt — and Gradebot drafts a per-criterion score, performance level, and written feedback for every submission, with its reasoning shown alongside the work. Nothing reaches a student until the teaching team reviews...
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AI IN EDUCATION - Restoring the Human Heart of Education
Reflections from Neena Sathi's presentation to the IIT Kanpur Alumni Association, Hyderabad Chapter, hosted by IIIT Hyderabad, India
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Reinventing grading for the AI era
Why we built Gradebot V3.0 — and what it does for educators Overview Grading is one of the most time-consuming responsibilities in education. Existing AI tools optimize for speed, leaving instructors to compensate for everything else — consistency, transparency, feedback quality, trust. Gradebot V3.0 takes a different approach: it grades the way you grade, attaches a confidence score to every evaluation, and gives you the tools to scale without sacrificing oversight. This post covers why we...
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Gradebot 2.0 Is Here: From Rubric to Results, Faster
Gradebot 2.0 Is Here: A Faster, Clearer Way to Grade With Confidence Grading is one of the most important parts of teaching, and one of the most time-consuming. Whether you are a professor managing large sections, a TA supporting multiple instructors, or a teacher juggling essays, projects, and written responses across a busy week, grading takes focus, consistency, and time. That is why we are excited to announce Gradebot 2.0 . With this release, Gradebot gets a major refresh: a new...
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Gradebot 2.0 Is Here: A Faster, Clearer Way to Grade With Confidence
Overview Grading is one of the most essential responsibilities in education—and one of the most time-consuming. Whether you're a professor managing large lecture sections, a teaching assistant supporting multiple instructors, or a teacher reviewing essays, projects, and written responses each week, grading requires significant time, focus, and consistency. Yet educators everywhere face the same challenge: how to provide high-quality, consistent feedback without spending countless hours on...
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Unlocking the Future of Education and Work with Generative AI
The AI Revolution: Transforming Learning and Innovation The rapid advancements in Generative AI are reshaping the landscape of education...
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Gradebot: An AI Grading Assistant for Faculty
Vidyanand Choudhary, Amanda Jones, Arvind Sathi, Neena Sathi Introduction Artificial intelligence (AI) continues to evolve, offering...
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