The AI-powered grading assistant that knows you,
your class, and your rubric.
Create assignments and assessments, assign them to your class, collect work in any format — then let our AI-powered grading assistant grade against your standards and rubric, with specific written feedback for every student. You review everything before it reaches them.
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From assignment to graded feedback — in four steps.
The full assessment cycle, with AI doing the heavy lifting and you in control of every grade and comment before students see it.
Build your assignment or assessment.
Create any assignment or assessment in Colleague — essays, short answers, projects, quizzes. Add your rubric, attach your standards, and set the context for your class. AI grading starts from your criteria, not generic ones.
Send it to your class.
Assign directly to students through Colleague. Connects to your existing tools — Google Classroom, Canvas, Schoology, and more — so assignments flow into workflows you already use.
Collect work in any format.
Students can submit typed work, uploaded files, or photos of handwritten work. Colleague reads it all. No format barriers. No retyping. Whatever format the work comes in, the grading agent can grade it.
AI grades to your rubric. You review.
The grading agent scores each submission against your rubric and standards, then writes specific feedback for each student — informed by your class, their history, and the assignment. You review and adjust before anything goes to students.
Generic AI grades assignments. This one knows yours.
Most AI grading tools work from the assignment in front of them. Colleague's grading agent works from everything it knows about your class — the teacher, the students, the assignment, and the rubric you built together.
Scores the work. Misses the student.
A generic AI grader reads the submission and applies a standard rubric. It doesn't know that this student has been struggling with thesis construction all semester, or that your class just covered this topic for the first time, or that your rubric weights evidence over style. The feedback is technically accurate and completely generic.
Feedback that fits this student, this class, this assignment.
The Colleague grading agent knows the teacher, the class, the student's history, and the rubric you wrote for this specific assignment. The feedback it drafts is specific because it has specific context — and every comment is written to move this student forward, not just evaluate where they landed.
It knows your class the way you do.
When the grading agent reads a student's essay, it's not reading it cold. It knows the assignment, the rubric, the standard being assessed, the student's prior work, the class's performance as a whole, and what you — the teacher — care about in a strong response.
That's not a generic rubric score. That's specific, actionable feedback that sounds like it came from someone who actually knows this classroom.
- Graded against the rubric you wrote for this assignment
- Aligned to the specific standards you're assessing
- Informed by the student's history and prior performance
- Aware of class-wide patterns — not just one submission
- Shaped by your teaching voice and instructional priorities
- Written to move the student forward — not just score them
AI drafts the grade. You own it.
Nothing goes to a student until you've reviewed it, adjusted it, and signed off on it. That's not a safeguard — it's the design.
You review every grade and comment.
The AI drafts. You decide. Every rubric score and every written comment goes through your eyes before it reaches a student. Adjust a score, rewrite a sentence, add a personal note — it's your feedback, assisted by AI.
Your insight, your voice, your relationship.
You see things about a student that no AI can see — what happened in class yesterday, what they've been working through, why this submission matters more than it looks on paper. Colleague gives you a strong draft. You make it human.
Feedback that lands better because it's yours.
Research is clear: specific, personal teacher feedback is one of the most powerful drivers of student learning and motivation. AI makes that specificity scalable. Your involvement makes it meaningful.
Colleague doesn't remove the teacher from grading. It removes the exhaustion from grading — so the teacher who shows up for every student's feedback is a rested, focused, human one.
Six layers of context, baked into every comment.
The grading agent doesn't just read the work. It reads the work through everything it knows about the class, the teacher, and the student.
Your rubric.
The AI grades against the rubric you created for this assignment — not a generic one. Your criteria. Your weighting. Your expectations.
Your standards.
CCSS, NGSS, state standards, or your district's framework. Feedback is tied to the specific standard being assessed — not just the task.
The student's history.
The grading agent knows this student's prior submissions and growth trajectory. Feedback names the specific next step for this learner — not a generic one.
Your class context.
It knows what the class has covered, where most students landed, and how this submission compares. Class-wide patterns surface alongside individual feedback.
The assignment itself.
Every piece of feedback traces back to what the assignment actually asked for — not a generic score against a skill area. This submission, this prompt, this task.
You — the teacher.
Your instructional voice, priorities, and teaching style shape the feedback the AI drafts. It's not anonymous. It's a draft that sounds like it came from you — because it's built on your context.
What teachers ask before they trust AI with grading.
The grading assistant that knows your class.
Try Colleague with a real assignment. Build the rubric, collect work, and see what specific feedback looks like when AI knows your class as well as you do — reviewed and sent by you.
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