Grade AI blog
Articles for teachers: grading paper tests with a phone, writing good multiple-choice questions, and what the Grade AI app does and does not do.
- 13 October 2026
What is Grade AI? The app that grades paper tests with a phone
Grade AI is a phone and web app for teachers. You write a multiple-choice test, print one answer sheet per student, scan the sheets with your phone, and the grades are saved.
- 13 October 2026
How to grade a multiple-choice test with your phone, step by step
A practical guide to grading paper multiple-choice tests with a phone camera: making the test, printing the answer sheets, what students do, scanning, and reading the results.
- 13 October 2026
Why grading takes teachers so long, and which part an app can take over
Marking a stack of multiple-choice tests is mostly counting, not judgement. Where the hours go, what a grading app can do instead, and what it cannot.
- 13 October 2026
Paper test or online quiz? When paper still makes more sense
Online quizzes grade themselves, but they need a device for every student. A fair comparison of paper tests and online quizzes, and a way to get automatic grading on paper.
- 13 October 2026
Bubble sheets without a scanner machine: how phone grading works
Optical mark recognition used to need special forms and a reading machine. How a phone camera reads filled-in circles today, what the corner squares and the QR code are for, and why the sheet asks for a pen.
- 13 October 2026
AI test questions from your own notes: how it works and what to check
How Grade AI drafts multiple-choice questions from a topic, photos of notes, PDFs or Word documents, what the AI receives and what it does not, and how to check the questions before printing.
- 13 October 2026
Two versions of a test (A and B): stop students copying from their neighbours
Why two test versions reduce copying, how to seat a class for A and B, and how Grade AI prints, scans and grades both versions without extra work.
- 13 October 2026
What Grade AI stores about students, and what it does not
A plain summary of student data in Grade AI for teachers and schools: what is stored and where, what the AI sees, what happens to scans of answer sheets, and which documents a school can review.