Gradescope
A homework and exam grading platform for university teachers that supports the grading of paper assignments, programming projects and coding questions, and provides grading scales, AI-assisted group merging and question-level statistical analysis.
Updated: 2026-10-26
What is Gradescope?
Gradescope is a grading platform for university instructors. The description on its official homepage is very specific: "Save time grading your existing paper-based assignments and see exactly what your students learned, for free." Its key proposition is that there is no need to change the form of assignments for digitalization. It can grade paper assignments, online assignments, and programming assignments alike. The official claim is that it gets the job done in half the time. The differentiator is that it ties "grading" together with "understanding what students have learned."
Who is it for?
- University course instructors who need to grade paper-based exams or assignments with a standardized rubric—this is its most targeted user group
- Teachers who teach programming courses and need to automatically run test cases to save time on manually checking answers
- Teaching assistants and graduate teaching assistants who need to quickly identify the most common types of errors across a large number of assignments
- Instructors who want course-level learning data rather than just total scores
Key features
6Use Your Existing Assignments
No need to transform the format of your assignments; it supports variable-length question sets and projects, as well as fixed-template worksheets, quizzes, answer sheets, and exam papers.
Comprehensive Subject Coverage
The subjects listed on the official website include Computer Science, Physics, Math, Chemistry, Biology, Engineering, and Economics.
Autograder
Programming assignments can have tests run automatically. The official website examples directly display Total Points, Autograder Score, and Failed Tests, listing the test items that lost points one by one; the manually graded Style section is presented separately.
Answer Groups and AI-assisted Grading
Group questions with similar answers for grading. For certain question types, Gradescope AI automatically groups them, which you can then review.
Quick, Flexible Grading
Apply detailed comments with one click; modifications to the rubric can be retroactively applied to previously graded assignments.
Gain Valuable Insight
Provides question-level and rubric-level statistics, with grades and data exportable; graded assignments can be returned with one click, and regrading applications can be processed online.
How to use Gradescope
- It is recommended to first run through an existing paper-based assignment before migrating the entire course, as the official website clearly states that existing assignments can be used directly.
- Answer Groups must be spot-checked: AI grouping only clusters similar answers together, and the final score judgment still requires human confirmation.
- Before modifying the rubric, confirm whether you want to apply the changes retroactively to graded assignments.
- The official website supports retroactive application, and incorrect operations will affect existing scores.
- The automatic grading for programming courses relies on the coverage of test cases.
- incomplete test writing will lead to inflated scores, so check if the test cases are sufficient before grading.
- The website lists figures such as 2,600+ universities, 140k+ instructors, and 700M+ graded questions, all based on its self-reported data.
- Before sharing graded assignment data with students, ensure compliance with your school's grading and privacy policies.
Traffic & popularity
Data month Sep 2026
Gradescope receives about 19.8M visits per month and ranks #2,075 worldwide.
Monthly visits
12 monthsTraffic sources
- Direct73.4%
- Referrals11.8%
- Search8.9%
- Mail3.8%
- Social1.4%
- Other0.7%
Top countries
- United States92.1%
- India2.1%
- Australia1.4%
- Hong Kong, China0.5%
- South Korea0.4%
Estimated from third-party traffic data.
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