Now that you understand how the Grading Assistant enhances the student writing experience and lightens the grading workload for teachers, you’re ready to assign a Grading Assistant-linked assignment! You can find prompts supported by Grading Assistant by looking for the wand within our assignment library. To create and assign a Grading Assistant-linked assignment, follow these steps:
🍎 The Grading Assistant is currently only available for Premium users. Learn more about Premium!
- Select Browse & Assign at the top of your dashboard to access the Assignment Library.
- Select Browse AI-graded prompts under the Grading Assistant option.
- You can browse our collection of prompts, which are organized in various categories, or you can add a custom prompt by selecting Create Your Own.
💡 While browsing prompts, you can select the eye icon to preview the student view of the assignment!
- When you select a pre-made prompt from the Grading Assistant section by selecting the blue arrow, the next page will pre-fill each field.
- If you select Create Your Own, the next page will guide you through all of the fields you can use to customize the assignment. Learn how to create a custom Grading Assistant-linked assignment!
❗ While you can customize the rubric and add additional items, the Grading Assistant will only be able to grade the preset rubric items with a wand next to them.
- Once you’re done customizing the assignment, select Continue at the bottom of the screen.
- On the final page, you can select which class(es) you want to receive the assignment, set a start and due date, and add a name for the assignment.
You can assign to the whole class by checking the box next to your class name, or assign to individual students by expanding the Choose students drop-down menu and selecting specific names.
- Once you’ve filled out the assignment details, select Assign.
Once you create an assignment, you can add new students who join your class to existing assignments, but you won’t be able to unselect students who have already been assigned.