Gradescope
Save time grading your existing paper-based assignments and see exactly what your students learned, for free.

Gradescope is an online grading platform used by over 140,000 instructors across 2,600+ universities to grade paper-based, digital, and programming assignments. It allows instructors to scan or collect student work, apply flexible rubrics, and return grades with detailed feedback efficiently. The platform also provides per-question analytics to help instructors understand student performance.
Instructors upload or scan student work, apply reusable rubrics to grade submissions efficiently, and send grades and feedback to students with a single click.
College and university instructors and educators
Background.
- Status
- launched
- Business model
- freemium
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