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Getting started with Gradency

The shortest path from a stack of scanned exams to per-student feedback in your students’ inboxes.

Heads up

Full reference docs are in development. This page covers the end-to-end workflow at a high level — for setup help or specific questions, reach out via the contact form.

Set up a course

Create a course from the dashboard and import your roster. You can paste names, upload a CSV/Excel sheet, or add students one-by-one. Custom fields (student ID, room, section) are configurable per course and appear in exports.

Generate or upload an exam

Two paths from the same dashboard:

  • QR-coded templates. Upload a blank exam template, and Gradency generates a per-student PDF with embedded QR codes so scanned stacks split back to the right student automatically.
  • Pre-printed exams. If you already printed without QR codes, upload a single scanned stack and split by fixed page count, or upload pre-split per-student PDFs directly.

Pages that can’t be read during a split are listed for you to fix, not guessed.

Define your rubric

Rubrics are structured per question: title, point value, and optional grading notes. Gradency can draft a starting rubric from your answer key, which you then refine. Each rubric is stored alongside the exam and travels with it through every regrade — and you can save it to your rubric library to reuse on another exam.

Grade

Hit Start grading and Gradency reads each student PDF against your answer key and rubric, then produces per-question scores and feedback. You can follow progress while the batch runs. Strictness can be set to lenient, standard, or strict per exam. Each student graded uses one credit.

Review

The three-pane review interface shows the answer key, the student’s scanned work, and per-question feedback side by side. Every question carries a confidence score the model reports; answers it was unsure about are gathered in a Needs Review queue. Override any score, edit any feedback, and the original score is preserved as an audit trail.

Deliver

Email graded results to students individually or in bulk. Export to CSV for your gradebook or LMS. Students can open a private result link and contest a question in-app. Students who reply by email with objections can be pulled via IMAP and tracked alongside grades.

What’s next

  • Pricing — 20 free credits, then monthly plans.
  • Security — how accounts, sessions and data are protected.
  • Data Use — exactly what we send to the grading subsystem and what we retain.

Still have questions?

Setup help, a specific workflow, or something this page doesn’t cover — send us a note and we’ll reply by email.

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