Powered by GenAI (such as ChatGPT), SM Grader is an innovative and easy-to-use cloud-based assessment grading & management platform that integrates natively with Canvas LMS.
SM Grader currently supports GPT-4o, GPT-4o-mini, and GPT o1 LLM models from OpenAI.
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SM Grader dramatically reduces manual workload by automating key aspects of the assessment process, freeing up valuable time for educators. SM Grader's automation tools are designed to maximise educational efficiency, streamlining the grading process.
SM Grader offers educators the flexibility to override marks or feedback, ensuring ultimate control over the grading process.
SM Grader enables educators to purchase only the modules they need, ensuring cost-effective flexibility.
Improved visibility and insights enhance accountability among markers, ensuring high-quality feedback and accurate scoring.
SM Grader supports educators in providing rich, thoughtful feedback and aligned scores, boosting overall consistency and accountability.
SM Grader tracks and records all actions, creating a detailed audit history for full transparency, and facilitates effortless recording and storage of all assessment criteria, insights, similarity reports, and feedback for comprehensive audit-ability.
SM Grader ensures uniform application of evaluation criteria across all student responses, guaranteeing fair and consistent grading, and introduces a standardised rating system for evaluators to foster consistent grading practices.
Optionally, SM Grader can compute code for programming questions and leverages advanced AI to learn your specific marking style, applying it consistently across student answers for uniform assessment.
SM Grader provides immediate, in-depth insights into cohort performance, student behaviour, and overall marking effectiveness from the commencement of grading.
As well as delivers a bird's-eye view of student progress and outcomes, highlighting areas of excellence and opportunities for improvement.
"There are a few things about SM Grader that I like. The first is that even if the process is different, it still gives full score for answers that are correct. The second is that it displays a histogram of the student's percentage scores and it is interesting to see what other students' average score are. Finally, I appreciate that each question has feedback that explains any errors in our answers and provides the right answer to helps us identify our mistakes."
"The past courses didn't allow us to see and go through past assessments or it took a very long time for them to be marked. So, in that aspect since SM Grader is presumably the reason for a quicker marking and feedback given it helps me as a student to look through and learn more through the feedback."
"I think SM Grader is an efficient and innovative tool used to grade assessments. I like how the feedback is fast and concise, also mentioning common mistakes the cohort has made, as well as the histogram illustrating the spread of the cohort's grades. So far, I have yet to come across an item that needs to be improved."
"Compared to similar courses, SM Grader is better as marks come out considerably faster. I would like to see SM Grader implemented in similar courses. I think it allows for faster results for students and takes less manpower to manually grade all the quizzes. Furthermore, it removes any bias a teacher may have towards any student, which is another bonus."
"SM Grader is a handy marking tool that has not only saved me from many hours of repetitive marking, but also given me an intuitive means to provide informative feedback to students.
Prior to using SM Grader, marking was the most time-consuming part of assessments, especially in cohorts with hundreds of students. Several markers would need to coordinate the marks scheme and a partial marks scheme, then revise it constantly with each new approach to a question which may lead to marking inconsistencies from different markers and the need to go over a single paper multiple times. SM Grader removes most opportunities for human error and completely eliminates marking bias by applying a unified mark scheme across all papers.
Furthermore, SM Grader provides a birds-eye-view of the submission landscape by compiling and presenting the unique answers for each question, ensuring that all answers are considered and partial marks can be awarded accordingly. This is but one of many assessment insights which allow for easy identification and quantification of the common mistakes for each question in which SM Grader grants the ability to apply answer specific feedback, question level feedback, and finally general class level feedback.
Personally, I have used SM Grader for a first year, undergraduate course that generally has 300+ students enrolled each semester. This course has 75-minute-long weekly quizzes which as a whole contribute a somewhat significant portion to their overall grade. I am able to confidently mark the entire cohort of quizzes and provide next day results and feedback due to SM Grader removing all the repetitive motions of marking. The informative insights and compilation of unique answers allow me to have a one and done examination of each question. This means I have more time on polishing the quiz feedback to ensure it holistically covers all relevant content. The results returned to students are not only transparent but also informative, and alongside the appropriate feedback, tend to minimise mark disputes."