CoGrader

Pros: I love how many customizations can be made - you can adjust rigor level of grading, the style of feedback students receive (e.g. formal, friendly, etc.), the type of rubric being assessed, the format of feedback, and more. It's also a huge time-saver for grading massive amounts of essays. I also like that teachers can customize and adjust feedback after it's been graded. Co-grader also gives very detailed feedback, so it's super useful for the revision and peer review process.

Cons: The only thing I didn't like is that the feedback is sometimes inconsistent. For example, I found that if I uploaded a class of essays they would be graded one way. Then if I were to upload the exact same essay again, it sometimes received a different grade. This feature made me nervous, because it made me question the consistency of the grades being assigned. However, I worked around this by just double checking every grade before finalizing, which I think teachers should be doing anyway.

Overall: Overall, this resources doesn't replace grading essays but it significantly expedites the process. It's a very worthwhile education tool!

Pros: I like that it provides both positive & corrective feedback including examples from my student's work. I often struggle with this as I have so many students' papers to grade, that I only focus on the corrective feedback.

Cons: I wish I could upload an exemplar so it knows exactly what I'm looking for. I also wish that it noticed highlighting. I have students highlight certain things within their writing (like compound/complex sentences), and I wish it saw that highlighted material. I often am correcting feedback in regards to these things, and can't use the "apply to all students" feature, since I have to see if the highlighting is there first before I can confirm it's actually been done.

Overall: My students like reading all of the feedback, and I appreciate that it puts their work side-by-side with the feedback/grade. I find this to be way more beneficial than having them type in Google Classroom, and giving them a hand-graded rubric, since they never actually look at their work again. This has also saved me time while grading, as I just have to adjust the feedback as necessary. However, I do wish there were some other features (uploading exemplars, identifying highlighted material).

Pros: I love the ability to fine-tune feedback. I love the rubric creator or the ability to upload my own.

Cons: Nothing. There is nothing I do not like about this product.

Overall: A fantastic product with great training features. I love that you can become an expert quickly. It is intuitive to use and makes grading much easier.

Pros: I truly love everything about CoGrader. So much so that my team and I pushed our grade levels, schools, and district to begin using it. It truly has been a way to help streamline the grading process, help with understanding the STAAR writing expectations, has taken out the individual, small group, and whole group reteaching process.... I can't say enough great things about it! What I love even more is that they are never "done" helping you. I've had just as much communication and help AFTER our district purchased it, as I did before they purchased it. Hands-down the best writing/grading program we have used and if my district ever foregoes the district plan, I will continue paying for the individual plan myself.

Cons: I don't actually have any cons at this time. Pretty much everything that I have needed, wanted, or suggested, they either already had in place or found a way to get it done!

Overall: AMAZING! I would recommend this to ALL teachers, regardless of grade, curriculum, subject, or testing state standards.