GradeWiz, a Y Combinator-backed AI teaching assistant (TA) has been launched over the weekend. The startup’s software claims to be designed to help teachers grade papers and give them feedback.
According to GradeWiz, “9 out of 10 educators would rather lose a kidney than grade another assignment.” Students often have to wait for weeks to receive generic feedback on work that they don’t even read, and founders Max Bohun and Aman Madhav Garg believe they can use AI to solve this.
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GradeWiz transforms the way courses are taught, with a single TA doing the work of 10, making it faster and more efficient. GradeWiz has already been used to grade over 30,000 submissions this year at universities like Penn State, Cornell, Hunter, Cal Poly, and Syracuse. Each submission receives detailed feedback which educators often don’t have the time to give, the very next day.
The AI assistant is designed to help save a lot of time when it comes to grading, while providing detailed, actionable feedback. It generates an entire paragraph of tailored feedback for each student, helping them learn from their mistakes with minimal frustration.
The concept behind GradeWiz also comes with the benefit of complete objectivity in grading. The platform additionally helps transform grading data into actionable insights by analyzing student responses to identify common misconceptions and knowledge gaps across the class to adapt the teaching strategy in real time.
GradeWiz has received positive feedback from students and educators in institutions like Cornell University, Ithaca College, Occidental College, and others.
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Co-founder Bohun is familiar with the issues faced by educators firsthand since he has previously worked as an undergraduate teaching assistant and a course assistant at Cornell University. Garg, on the other hand, held several roles as a software and machine learning engineer, was co-founder and developer at decodeLabs, before joining hands with Bohun for GradeWiz.