Essays graded like you, not for you.

Post an essay to Google Classroom from NoteGrade. As students turn in their Docs, it drafts rubric scores and comments that follow how you score, with names left out, and shows the evidence behind every point. You make the call, and grades go back to Classroom.

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Essay 7 · Four-day school week Click a highlight, then agree or disagree.

A four-day week sounds like a gift, but for a lot of families in our district it would mean paying for a fifth day of childcare. My mom works Fridays at the hospital, and my little brother is seven, so someone would have to watch him every Friday. The district survey got answers from 212 families, but it was only sent by email, and families without home internet never seen it.

Supporters say teachers would be less burned out, and that matters. Still, a schedule that works for the people who answered an email is not a schedule that works for everyone. If the district wants to know what families think, it should send paper surveys home and hold one meeting at night, when parents who work days can come.

The draft is a suggestion. The grade is yours.

NoteGrade never grades for you. It does the first read so you can spend your time on the calls that need a teacher.

It learns how you grade.

Score three sample essays with your own rubric before your first class set, the way your department norms. Then it keeps learning while you work: every point you agree or disagree with, every score you change and every comment you rewrite shapes the next draft. A report shows where drafts and your scores still differ, criterion by criterion.

Drafts compared with your scores
  • Claim
  • Evidence
  • Counterclaim
  • Conventions
Your average Draft average Drafts run high on Evidence and Counterclaim.

Illustration with sample data.

Works inside Google Classroom.

Students keep writing where they already write. You post the essay from NoteGrade with a due date and points, Classroom gives every student their own Doc, and NoteGrade reads each one when it is turned in. Connect once; it keeps checking.

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    Post it from NoteGrade

    Title, instructions, rubric, points, due date and topic. Post now or schedule it.

  2. 2

    Students write in their own Doc

    NoteGrade attaches a Doc to each student’s work in Classroom. They write and turn it in the way they always do.

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    Drafted as each essay comes in

    Scores and comments are waiting when you sit down, every point tied to the words it is about.

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    Return to Classroom

    Grades land in the Classroom gradebook. Each student can also get a Doc with your comments.

Graded without names.

NoteGrade keeps no roster. Essays come in as Essay 1, Essay 2 and so on, so every essay gets the same read. Names come from Classroom only when you ask to see them, and are never stored.

  • No roster to upload or keep

    Your classes come straight from Classroom. NoteGrade stores Google’s id for each essay, not the student’s name or email.

  • Shared passages, shown to you

    Each essay is checked against classmates’ essays on the same assignment. Shared passages are shown to you as evidence, never as a verdict, and students never see them.

  • Late and resubmitted work, marked

    Late work is labeled from Classroom, and an essay turned in again after you returned it is marked so you can grade it again.

Built for a real school day.

Built for student privacy.

  • Designed for FERPA and COPPA
  • No roster stored, essays graded without names
  • Student work never trains AI
  • No ads, and student data is never sold
  • Your school can have its data deleted any time
How we protect student data

All of it, free for teachers.

Try it with your next essay. If something gets in your way, write to matt@notegrade.com and it gets fixed.

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