How it works
Photograph the stack. It reads the pages and does the arithmetic. You handle what it can't prove.
Six stages, from a pile of paper on the table to a CSV in your gradebook. Two of them need a person, and this page is honest about which.
Scanning
Twenty papers take as long as twenty photographs. You do not name, sort or choose an assignment first.
Each upload comes back as soon as the picture is stored, so the reading runs behind you and results appear as they finish.
After each photograph you say what it was: another page of this paper, or the next paper. One tap between shots, and the tap is what decides where the pages go.
Recognizing the assignment
A mixed stack separates itself into worksheets without you sorting anything.
Every paper that's read gets a fingerprint made from the wording of its questions, and unfiled papers are clustered by that fingerprint.
Each group is compared with the answer keys already in the class. If it matches one, you're asked to confirm — once for the group, not once per paper. If it matches nothing, you can create an assignment from the group, and the key is drafted from the papers themselves.
Answer keys you don't have to proof-read
The arithmetic on a proposed key is recomputed before you ever see it, so the proved lines need no reading from you.
If the proposed answer to 34 + 18 is 52, that's proved rather than trusted. A disagreement is flagged, with the computed answer offered as a one-tap correction.
Answers that can't be verified — a matching letter, a vocabulary word — are shown with how clearly they were read, and say plainly that they couldn't be checked.
Grading
Papers are graded against the key you confirmed, under the rules you set.
Equivalent forms count where you allow them, so 1/2 and 0.5 can both be right. Spelling and handwriting are ignored unless you ask for them.
Partial credit for shown work can be switched on for a whole assignment, or granted to one student through their scoring card.
Scoring cards
A card on a student changes how their paper is counted: only the items they completed, only the items on a list, or credit for correct process where work is shown. Set it once and it applies every time that student's paper comes through. The card holds scoring rules and nothing else — the model is told how to count the paper and never told why.
Written answers
Mechanics are counted. Ideas are not scored.
Capitalization, end punctuation and length are reported as plain statements you can check yourself. Ideas, organization and vocabulary get a suggested range out of the available points, and the reasons behind it — never a number of their own.
A poor photograph never costs a student points. If the handwriting couldn't be read reliably, nothing is assessed and you're told to look at the picture yourself. Grading an unreliable transcription would grade the camera rather than the child.
Expectations scale with grade level, and each class can move the bar — word count, sentence count or the mechanics target — because a grade level isn't the same standard in every school.
Review and export
The papers that need you are listed first, and the photograph sits full size beside every score.
A paper is listed when no name matched, confidence was low, a key isn't yet confirmed, or a scoring card was applied. Papers still being read say so, and are not mistaken for papers that failed.
When you're satisfied, mark papers final and export a CSV aligned to your roster: student number, name, assignment, points earned, points possible, percentage and status.
