Gradescope
AI-assisted grouping and grading at scale
The Four Mismatches · Gradescope
Fits on everything we could check
For a student in the United States, the country it was built for.
CurriculumNo exam claimed
It names no school exam, so this counts neither for nor against it.
- The maker names no exam
LanguageFits
Teaches in the classroom languages of the United States.
- The maker lists: English, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Turkish
- Classrooms in the United States use: English
DeviceFits
Works on a laptop or tablet, what most students in the United States use.
Independence: our publisher builds learning products too. We never review or score its products, and no tool pays to be listed or to rank higher — how we assess fit.
What it does
What the AI actually does — ML clusters near-identical answers so a grader scores a group once and the mark propagates; handwriting recognition auto-grades scanned pages.
Why it was built — Cut the time and grading inconsistency of marking handwritten exams and problem sets at scale.
Who built it
- Company
- Gradescope (Turnitin)
- Founders
- Arjun Singh · Sergey Karayev · Ibrahim Awwal · Pieter Abbeel
- HQ / origin
- Berkeley, California, USA
- Founded
- 2014
- Model
- B2B / B2G
- Ownership
- Owned by Turnitin (acquired 2018), in turn Advance Publications
- Languages
- English
We record durable facts only — no funding-raised or user-count figures. Unverified fields are marked [TBD] rather than guessed.
Where it sits
Gradescope is on the Learning Tools Index, in assessment & academic integrity, built in United States.
Related & alternatives
- TurnitinSimilarity and AI-writing checks
- CrowdmarkOnline collaborative grading
- CoGraderAI-assisted essay grading aligned to rubrics