"Two school days. That’s all it took. In 2024, I chaperoned field trips two days in a row, for two different grade levels, and came back to roughly 450 ungraded assignments.
I knew what to do, I’ve done it before, mark them credit or no credit and move on. Students get something out of that. They did the practice. But if any of them were practicing it wrong, nobody catches it, nobody tells them, and the misunderstanding rides along into the next unit.
That pile of work led me to build an AI grading assistant. And this past April, I removed its most automated feature: the one that could return an AI-generated grade and comment to a student before I had reviewed it.
Building that feature was easy to justify. Removing it taught me which part of grading a teacher can’t hand off."
Via
EDTECH@UTRGV
"AI-supported tools can turn data into instructional guidance: Purpose-built systems can identify patterns, surface skill gaps, and recommend next steps while keeping teachers in control."