At Graide, we’re working hard to take the grind out of grading and assessment. One of the most challenging parts of teaching, it’s repetitive, tedious, and time-consuming—if only it weren’t so important!
Worse still, it takes educators away from what they love most—sharing their love of the subject, building relationships, and helping students learn.
Thankfully, Graide means delegating the drudgery to AI without compromising on consistency or quality.
In fact, Graide not only simplifies and speeds up assessment—it increases and enhances the detail and level of feedback. Students get quicker, more insightful instruction, and that’s a game-changer for vocational education providers.
How our history guided Graide’s development
We’re educators ourselves. We know the pressure of endless piles of paperwork, long student contact hours, and the need to keep pace with technology.
With over 20 years of university teaching experience collectively here at Graide, we’ve spent countless weeks—or months!—grading papers. It was our main motivator for creating the platform. We wanted to speed up the process for both professors and students.
The challenge: maintaining efficiency, consistency, and quality in assessments
Vocational education is all about hands-on skills and practical learning. But grading these skills can be tough. Due to its undoubted complexity, manual grading takes a lot of time. It’s not just about giving a score. Feedback is more than a number. Students want and require step-by-step guidance. They don’t just want to know where they are; they need to understand where to go from there.
Much as they would like to, teachers struggle to find the time for that level of feedback. Workload and competing demands, a mountain of admin, block the way.
Can Gen-AI help?
The temptation is to use Gen-AI. We wouldn’t recommend it.
Though useful for tasks where flexibility is acceptable, Gen-AI is known for its variability and often riddled with inconsistencies and biases.
Grading, which is high stakes, demands the utmost precision.
Students and their teachers, deserve this.
I say more about Gen-AI grading in the video below.
How does Graide make a difference?
Graide works a little differently. Its artificial intelligence sits, metaphorically, on the shoulder of markers, observing and then replicating how they mark.
This means they don’t have to mark the same mistake twice.
Yes, that’s worth repeating.
Mark a mistake once, and never again.
That certainly takes a lot of emotional labour—aka frustration—out of assessment and grading. It also simplifies and speeds up marking immeasurably, all while ensuring accuracy and fairness. Marking fatigue is less likely to creep in. There are fewer worries about human errors and bias.
Is Graide a perfect fit for vocational training?
Assessment in apprenticeships can be doubly difficult. It isn’t like other types of education—it’s all about practical, real-world skills.
Graide understands this.
Unlike other grading tools, Graide caters to a wide range of assessments, from written tests to hands-on assignments.
Oxbridge really values this. The award-winning online learning platform has seen a significant drop in grading times and a sharp rise in feedback since using Graide.
Saving time without cutting corners
Educators set themselves impossibly high standards. They want to do the best for their students. They know how important grading and assessment are. Consequently, they have an innate aversion to anything even resembling cutting corners.
Adding AI to the process—dare we say it—saves teachers from themselves!
Graide can cut grading time by 89%.
1 minute to mark what would normally take 11 minutes!
That’s time that can be better spent on course development and direct student interaction.
For more on the figures, read University of Birmingham: Graide Efficacy Research
Better, more detailed, actionable feedback
Teachers spend so much time on prompt, personalised feedback because they know the difference it makes to students.
Graide provides detailed feedback that is quick and easy to understand, at scale.
A marker has to write detailed insight on each mistake just once for it to be replicated for everyone else who makes the same mistake. It’s no surprise then that a sevenfold increase was seen in tests comparing Graide to traditional assessment methods.
All this keeps students motivated and gives them clear steps for improvement.
The impact on student satisfaction and retention cannot be overstated.
Graide is Easy to integrate and use
The set-up costs, in terms of time and head-scratching, put many of us off when it comes to taking on new tech. Nobody wants a grading tool that’s difficult to learn.
Graide is simple and easy to use, meaning teachers are up and running in no time.
Just as importantly, Graide integrates smoothly into existing learning management systems (LMS). It doesn’t require providers to overhaul current processes.
All this saves hours of time in the long run.
Ongoing support and peace of mind
And if you ever need help, Graide’s support team is there to help.
Teachers seem to have a few teething troubles with the platform, but we know it’s reassuring to know support is there should you need it.
Meet the team here. About Us: Educators improving assessment and feedback | Graide
Real-world success: Graide partnership with Aptem
We recently teamed up with Aptem to make grading even easier for apprenticeships.
70% of tutors lose 20-40% of their time to marking, Aptem's own customer research revealed. That’s a significant portion of the working week.
A joint venture, our new AI-driven grading tool for vocational training is helping tutors cut grading time by up to 50%.
This means more time for supporting students, building their confidence, and fostering a love of learning—exactly what good education should focus on.
Seeing is believing.
We’d love to give you a demo.
Get in touch with us today, and let’s see what Graide can do for your vocational training institution.
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