What is Gradescope?

Gradescope is a Turnitin-owned grading and assessment platform used by over 140,000 instructors and 3.2 million students at more than 2,600 universities worldwide including MIT, Stanford, Harvard, and Cornell. It supports paper-based exams, digital homework, programming projects, and bubble sheets with consistent rubric-based grading, AI-assisted answer grouping, and detailed per-question analytics. Instructors can scan paper exams, apply flexible rubrics that retroactively update all graded work, and return feedback to students with a single click.

Key Features

Paper Exam ScanningRubric-Based GradingAI Answer GroupingCode AutograderBubble Sheet GradingPer-Question AnalyticsFlexible Rubric EditingRetroactive Grade UpdatesStudent Feedback DeliveryRegrade Request ManagementGitHub Submission SupportLMS IntegrationMulti-Subject SupportBatch GradingGrade ExportStudent Progress AnalyticsFERPA Compliance

How to Use Gradescope

1Create a free Gradescope instructor account

2Upload your assignment or scan paper exams

3Build a flexible grading rubric

4Grade submissions using AI answer grouping or manual review

5Send grades and feedback to students with one click

Who is Gradescope for?

✅ Best For

University and college instructors who grade large cohorts of 50 to 500+ students and need a consistent, time-efficient way to apply rubrics across paper and digital submissions
Computer science and STEM educators who want automated code grading with autograder support for programming assignments submitted via GitHub or Bitbucket
Teaching assistants managing multi-section courses who need a centralized platform where all graders apply the same rubric standards to ensure equity across sections

❌ Not For

K-12 teachers looking for a classroom-friendly grading tool, since Gradescope is designed for higher education workflows and does not integrate well with typical school LMS platforms
Instructors who grade primarily through narrative written feedback rather than rubric-based scoring, as Gradescope's structure is optimized for rubric and point-based grading
Users who need a full LMS with student enrollment, attendance, and curriculum management, as Gradescope is a standalone assessment and grading tool

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Pricing

Is Gradescope free? Yes, there is a free plan.

Free$0

✓Basic grading for individual instructors
✓limited features

InstitutionalCustom

✓Full AI grouping
✓advanced analytics
✓LMS integration
✓priority support

Prompts to Try

Upload my scanned midterm exams and apply this rubric

Group similar wrong answers together for question 3

Export all grades to my university gradebook

Show me per-question statistics for the final exam

Use Cases

A Berkeley professor scans 280 midterm exams after class, and Gradescope's AI groups similar student answers for each question, letting her TAs grade an entire question type at once and finish in one evening.

A CS instructor sets up an autograder for a Python assignment on GitHub and receives fully graded submissions with test case results the moment the deadline passes, without manually running a single file.

A chemistry TA realizes a rubric error after grading 100 exams and updates the rubric retroactively in Gradescope, which automatically adjusts all previously graded submissions in seconds.

A teaching team of 6 TAs across 4 sections uses Gradescope's shared rubric to ensure every student's essay is graded on the same criteria, eliminating the inter-rater inconsistency that previously caused student complaints.

A professor at an international university uses Gradescope's analytics to identify that 70% of students lost points on question 7, prompting her to reteach that concept in the next lecture.