For ELA and English teachers

AI grader for ELA and English teachers

Reading responses, short constructed responses, argumentative, narrative and informative writing, grammar and vocabulary: Examino scores all of it against the rubric you already hand out, on handwritten or typed papers, from middle school to college. You read each comment, change any score and approve the paper before a student sees it.

Built for the whole ELA workload

One grader for everything you assign in English class

Reading comprehension and constructed responses

Upload the passage, the questions and your answer key. Each response is scored on whether it answers the prompt, pulls evidence from the text and explains that evidence, with a short comment you can keep, trim or rewrite.

Argumentative, narrative and informative writing

Attach your writing rubric with the traits you grade on: claim, organization, elaboration, language, conventions. Scores come back trait by trait, each with a one-line justification, so a 3 in organization is explained rather than just stated.

Text evidence checked against the passage

When a student quotes or paraphrases, the feedback compares the citation with the text you uploaded and flags quotes that are missing, inaccurate or dropped in without any explanation.

Grammar, conventions and vocabulary

Sentence boundaries, subject-verb agreement, punctuation, word choice. Every flagged error points to the sentence it comes from, so students know exactly what to fix and you can see the pattern across a whole paper.

How it works

Three steps from a stack of papers to graded feedback

Uploading an assignment and a rubric to Examino in PDF, Word or image format
01

Upload the assignment and your rubric

Add the prompt, the passage if there is one, and the rubric you already use. Analytic, holistic or single-point, a district rubric or a checklist with point values: paste it, upload a PDF or snap a photo of the printed version.

Scanning handwritten student papers with a phone camera from the Examino QR code
02

Import typed papers or scan handwritten ones

Typed work comes in as PDF, Word or image files. For handwritten responses, Examino shows a QR code: point a phone camera at it, photograph the pages, and they land in the assignment. No app to install, for you or for your students.

Editing AI feedback and scores on a student paper in Examino before validating it
03

Review, edit and export

Each paper arrives with a score per rubric trait and a comment per criterion. Change a score, rewrite a comment, approve the paper, then export the feedback to Word or PDF or hand it back from the class view.

Used in real classrooms

30,000+ educators, 500,000+ papers graded

Teachers in every subject and at every grade level use Examino, from in-class writing to end-of-term essays.

Feedback and score suggested by Examino for a student response, shown for the teacher's review

Long-form essays

Multi-page essays belong on the essay grader

This page covers the everyday ELA workload: reading responses, paragraph answers, timed writing, short essays. For literary analysis and research papers that run several pages, with a thesis developed across sections, the AI essay grader goes deeper into structure, argumentation and sourcing. Colleagues down the hall have their own pages: the DBQ grader for AP History and the science grader for lab reports.

Generating a targeted practice exercise in Examino from the difficulties detected in graded papers

Targeted practice

Practice sets built from what the class got wrong

After a set is graded, Examino lists the difficulties it saw most often: unsupported claims, run-on sentences, vague word choice, missing transitions. Pick one and it generates a targeted exercise on that skill, ready to print or to send to the students who need it.

Class statistics in Examino: average, median, score distribution and mastery levels per rubric trait

Class view

Which rubric traits are holding the class back

The class view shows the average, the score distribution and the rubric traits where students lost the most points. It is the quickest way to decide what the next mini-lesson should cover and to prepare for a conference with a family.

Student privacy

FERPA-compliant, hosted in the EU

One AI model sees a name, at most

Across the whole grading process, a student's name reaches at most one AI model. Names and grades are shown together only inside your account.

No training on student work

The AI providers Examino uses are contractually barred from training on student papers. Data is stored and processed in the European Union under GDPR.

You approve every grade

Nothing is exported or shared until you have read it. Scores and comments are editable in place, and the grade on the exported paper is the one you validated.

Pricing

Start free, upgrade when the stack grows

Discovery

For teachers who want to try Examino: 10 free papers a month.

Free

  • Grade up to 10 papers / month

  • 1 rubric edit per assignment

  • Unlimited targeted practice exercises

  • Chat customer support

  • Class overview dashboard

  • Export feedback to Word and PDF

Standard

Designed for individual teachers with regular grading needs.

$7.50

/ month No annual commitment

  • Grade up to 100 papers / month

  • 3 rubric edits per assignment

  • Unlimited targeted practice exercises

  • Chat customer support

  • Class overview dashboard

  • Export feedback to Word and PDF

  • Cancel anytime

Plus

For teachers with intensive grading needs.

$17.90

/ month No annual commitment

  • Grade up to 300 papers / month

  • 3 rubric edits per assignment

  • Unlimited targeted practice exercises

  • Chat customer support

  • Class overview dashboard

  • Export feedback to Word and PDF, without the Examino logo

  • Cancel anytime

Schools and districts

Designed for schools, districts, and higher education institutions.

Advanced analytics, premium support, and an admin workspace to manage licenses. Contact us for pricing.

FAQ

Questions ELA teachers ask

Something missing? Write to contact@examino.ai.

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