One of the worst feelings you can experience as a student is anxiously waiting for a paper you just submitted to be graded. Grammarly’s new feature claims it can tell you your grade right away, and save you the long, nerve-wracking wait.
Grammarly Gets Eight New AI Agents, Including a Grader for Your Papers
Today, Grammarly announced a series of new features for both free and paid subscribers, including an AI Grader. The feature is designed to do exactly what it sounds like—estimate what grade your paper will receive. The AI Grader apparently uses a series of parameters to estimate your grade and give you tailored recommendations, including the rubrics you upload, course information, and writing topics.
A lot of the time, your grade on a paper can also depend on who’s grading it. Interestingly, Grammarly took that into account too and says the tool can even factor in publicly available information about the instructor’s grading style.
Frankly, I’ve not been the biggest fan of Grammarly AI, but this is one I can actually see students finding useful. Of course, it all boils down to how accurate the grade predictions are. I also have my doubts about the instructor’s public profile bit, as I know most of my professors barely have anything online that could hint at their grading style. And even if they did, it’s hard to imagine how Grammarly could translate that into something meaningful for predicting grades.
In addition to the AI Grader agent, Grammarly also announced seven other agents: Read Reactions, Citation Finder, Expert Review, Proofreader, AI Detector, Plagiarism Checker, and Paraphraser. What these agents are supposed to do is pretty self-explanatory, with each one tackling a specific part of the writing or editing process. While a lot of other AI tools can already do all of this, Grammarly’s AI agents are meant to cut down on the time you spend prompting by letting you directly call on the specific agent you need.
Grammarly also now features a document-based interface, Docs, which it calls its “new AI-native writing surface,” and is essentially designed to put all the AI tools front and center.
Grammarly’s new agents have begun rolling out in both Grammarly Free and Grammarly Pro, and will be coming to Grammarly Enterprise and Grammarly for Education users later this year. All eight of the AI agents will be available in Docs at no additional cost and will roll out gradually across the websites and apps people already use Grammarly with.
