Automatically grade student assignments and generate reports

Reads a submitted PDF, grades it against your answer key with AI, and saves the report to Google Drive.

How the work actually flows

A straight line. Runs once per each question in the assignment.

Pattern: Sequence (1) · Multiple Instances with a priori Design-Time Knowledge (13) · Transient Trigger (23)

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Starts itA stepAn outside serviceRuns once per itemA record or sheetResultPayoff
Build size
Advanced

A larger build with multiple systems, AI reasoning, and custom rules.

Business functions
AI Agents & Autonomous SystemsKnowledge Base & RAGDocument Processing & OCRReporting & AnalyticsAPI & Webhook IntegrationFile & Cloud Storage
Connects
Google GeminiGoogle Drive

The problem it solves

Grading a stack of assignments by hand takes hours, and giving each student detailed, consistent feedback is even harder to keep up with. The bigger your class, the more this eats into time you'd rather spend teaching.

Who it fits

Teachers, professors, or coaching centers that grade written assignments or test papers regularly.

How it works

  1. A student submits their assignment as a PDF
  2. The system reads the text out of the PDF
  3. AI compares the answers against your answer key and marking scheme
  4. AI scores each question and writes feedback, then totals the grade
  5. A grading report is created and saved to Google Drive
What you get

Graded papers ready for a teacher's final check

You get every assignment graded against your answer key, with detailed feedback saved and ready for your review.

What you get

A detailed grading report with scores and feedback, saved automatically to Google Drive.

What you need

A Google Gemini API key and a Google Drive account.

We can build this. But should you?

The hard question is not how to build it. It is whether this is the right thing to build first.

That is what a Fractional Chief AI Officer figures out with you, before anyone writes a line of code.

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