Clenans grades student essays with AI the way a careful teacher would: one rubric criterion at a time, with a direct quote from the student's writing as proof for every score — and a second pass that actively challenges the grade before you ever see it.
How the AI grades an essay
Dimension by dimension against your rubric. Build the rubric yourself or co-create it with the AI. The model scores each criterion separately, not the essay as a whole.
Verbatim evidence for every score. Each criterion links to an exact quote from the student's paper, so a grade can be explained to a student or a parent.
An adversarial second pass. A strictness setting runs a second review that looks for reasons the first pass was too generous — and shows you when it lowered the grade and why.
Processed as text and via OCR. Dual processing removes prompt-injection and whitespace tricks before grading begins.
The teacher stays in control
Every AI grade and comment is staged for review. The accept button is always visible, and no score is saved to a student without your explicit approval. You choose which evidence quotes and which reasoning the student sees.
Built for real workflows
Bulk-upload a whole class of PDF, DOCX, or scanned submissions and grade them in one session.
Students can submit a draft and get AI feedback before the final deadline.
Audio, video, and spreadsheet submissions are supported — click a quote to jump to that moment.
Runs inside Canvas, Moodle, or Blackboard via LTI 1.3; grades sync back to the gradebook.