As a former TA at Berkeley (where Gradescope was founded), I can't stress enough how integral Gradescope was to our exam process. It streamlines the process of scanning exams, allows us to grade them online, and then to easily respond to regrade requests.
It seems like they've put a lot of work towards eliminating the remaining bottleneck: actually assigning grades (which was done by a dozen profs/TAs in 10 hour marathon). Anything that automates busywork and allows teachers to focus on actually teaching sounds amazing!
As a current TA at Berkeley, those marathon parties are indeed a big part of the job. But Gradescope has made things much easier overall, and but to scale for >1700 students in our intro CS61A class!
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As a former TA at Berkeley (where Gradescope was founded), I can't stress enough how integral Gradescope was to our exam process. It streamlines the process of scanning exams, allows us to grade them online, and then to easily respond to regrade requests.
It seems like they've put a lot of work towards eliminating the remaining bottleneck: actually assigning grades (which was done by a dozen profs/TAs in 10 hour marathon). Anything that automates busywork and allows teachers to focus on actually teaching sounds amazing!
As a current TA at Berkeley, those marathon parties are indeed a big part of the job. But Gradescope has made things much easier overall, and but to scale for >1700 students in our intro CS61A class!