CoGrader vs. myTpen Comparison Chart

Pros

• CoGrader does an excellent job providing specific feedback suggestions for student papers and greatly speeds up my grading time. I find that I'm giving better feedback in a more timely manner.
• CoGrader is easy-to-use and provides excellent feedback for my students. It is easy to tailor to your specific students' needs.
• I feel like I can be more consistent when I have to progress monitor writing goals for individual education plans since writing is very subjective.
• CoGrader is everything I expect from an AI grading product as a teacher! It offers so many things to customize how the bot works. You can make it as rigid or as lenient as you want. I really love how you can make the feedback for your students as creative as they are. There are so many rubrics already installed so you really don't have to do even that step! You can upload your rubrics if you want. I love how it uses my Google classroom to pull my assignments. You even have it grade quizzes, essays, and other papers. I have begged my admin to buy it for our building! 🤞🏼I have shown several teachers in my building, the other elementary building and at the junior high. Everyone who works with it loves it. It is so easy to use, as long as you can read! This has saved so much time! I really dreaded grading writing. I would only grade 5 at a time because I couldn't take it, painfully grading student writing. Now it's done in a matter of minutes. Once it's done I go through and approve what the bot said about the student writing. It highlights students write, offers suggestions, and even gives compliments when earned.
• CoGrader allows me to give my students almost instant feedback on their writing samples. Before using CoGrader, it would take me two to three weeks to return writing assignments with usable feedback. Now, I tell CoGrader what to assess on particular writing assessments, and I have feedback that my students can use within minutes. CoGrader has allowed me to be able to give my students multiple writing assignments with usable feedback; whereas before, I only could give just a couple of writing assignments in an 18-week class.
• As a bilingual teacher, I like that I can link student work to the right rubric easily. It is very bilingual-friendly and supports multiple languages, so I can give clear, consistent feedback in both languages and help my students understand what to improve.
• Absolutely love the options CoGrader gives to send timely and useful feedback to my students. I have been using for 2 years now and it has cut down my grading time significantly. They even love reading their feedback and setting goals from it. The reports are amazing to get a quick snapshot of where my students are at collectively.
• I am very pleased with CoGrader. It is a very effective and effecient essay/writing grading and feedback tool. There a many positive features such as rubric-based grading. Teachers may utilize their rubrics or utilize a library of pre-created rubrics. I also appreciate not only the ease of grading but the actionable feedback . The feedback that the students receive promotes writing improvment not just a final grade. Additional effective features include plagerism and AI detection. Finally, the integration with Canvas LMS fits our district's instructional technology infrastructure.
• I love how many customizations can be made - you can adjust rigor level of grading, the style of feedback students receive (e.g. formal, friendly, etc.), the type of rubric being assessed, the format of feedback, and more. It's also a huge time-saver for grading massive amounts of essays. I also like that teachers can customize and adjust feedback after it's been graded. Co-grader also gives very detailed feedback, so it's super useful for the revision and peer review process.
• I like that it provides both positive & corrective feedback including examples from my student's work. I often struggle with this as I have so many students' papers to grade, that I only focus on the corrective feedback.