Auto Grading Method

For initial credit courses, the answer is 5–10%, depending on the course. Essays are supported by an auto-scoring engine that suggests a grade based on structure and grammar, but teachers must review and accept/modify the score before it shows for students. If a district wants to reduce the amount of teacher grading, they can customize projects, performance tasks, and lab reports out of the course. They can also enable completion grading, which will remove the requirement that teachers review essays before the score shows for students, but we do not recommend this for credit-bearing courses. Credit recovery courses have little to no teacher grading.

Project-based CTE courses and AP® courses both require significantly more teacher grading. More than half of the activities could be teacher graded for project-based electives. For AP courses, roughly 25% of the activities are teacher graded. AP courses also require teachers to facilitate online discussions through Collaboration Corner.

The minimum word counts for rough drafts and final drafts are 100 words and 150 words, respectively. Essays that are this short are not likely to receive high scores, but the system will accept them.

The maximum word count for essays is 10,000 words. However, the auto-scoring engine is not capable of grading essays that exceed 800 words. The LMS will still accept essays that are longer than 800 words, but the instructor will need to manually grade these essays.

	Green checkmark: You chose this answer, and this answer is the correct answer (all tasks).
	Red checkmark: You didn’t choose this answer, but it is the correct answer (dropdown or multiple-choice task).
	Gray checkmark: You didn’t choose this answer, but it is the correct answer (checkbox task).
	Red X: You chose this answer, but it was the incorrect answer (checkbox task).
	Gray X: You didn’t choose this answer, and it is the incorrect answer (checkbox task).