CoGrader vs. Mindsmith Comparison Chart

Pros

• CoGrader has been a valuable tool in my classroom. It saves me a significant amount of time while providing consistent feedback and grading. I use it often as a second grader to check my own scoring and make sure I am staying normed to the rubric. It does not replace my professional judgment, but it gives me a reliable second perspective and helps me provide students with more timely, consistent feedback.
• I love the instant feedback that the program provides my students. It would take me days to come up with the very helpful feedback that is provided in a minute. I've explained "my assistant" to the class and told them that they should go back and make changes based on their feedback.
• The rubrics are fabulous! I can create my own, use CoGrader's rubrics, or even link my state's testing rubrics. I also love the different styles of feedback so that I can switch it up according to the assignment. After 27 years of teaching, I can grade essays and give solid feedback without taking all of my personal time to get my papers graded.
• As a science teacher with nearly 100 middle School students, grading written work is time consuming. This allows me to get initial scores and feedback as a starting point to save lots of time. Also identifies misconceptions.
• I was able to upload my rubric and give specific requirements for my literary analysis essays. Cograder was able to give me feedback and scores with about 90% accuracy. It cut my grading time in half. I also liked that it saves the essays digitally and can be viewed with the submitted format. This allowed me to easily check for MLA requirements as I was using the Cograder feedback to evaluate the essay.
• I like that I can give immediate results to students. It is written in a way that they can understand it. It doesn't crush their souls the way my comments might after I had been grading for hours.
• Unbiased feedback! It has also improved the frequency in which I give quality feedback! I love being able to review individual submissions as well!
• - It syncs with Google Classroom - It's highly customizable - Rubric building is simple and straightforward - The regrading process is great and doesn't use additional gradings from the monthly limit
• Here is a list of ten reasons why every ELA teacher needs CoGrader. Significantly reduces the time spent grading student writing. Grades an entire class of essays in minutes. Provides immediate preliminary scores. Eliminates much of the repetitive work associated with grading. Reduces the amount of grading teachers take home. Allows teachers to spend more time planning meaningful lessons. Makes it possible to assign writing more frequently. Reduces teacher workload and grading-related stress. Streamlines the assessment process. Lets teachers focus more on individual student needs. I also love the fact that teachers can choose which feedback sections students receive, including strengths, areas for growth, rubric results, and grammar suggestions. CoGrader can also insert feedback into students' Google Docs. I let my students review the suggested ways to improve their writing. They use these suggestions to revise and edit. The students are then permitted to resubmit their work for a better grade. Before CoGrader, I used to limit the number of writing assignments I had my students complete because I dreaded grading all of them. Now, my classes complete a writing assignment after every text we read!
• It is quick. It helps me with what I need and cuts my grading time in half. I am still learning to word my instructions better, and I am glad there were tutorials to help with this.