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# Auto Grade
Scribo auto-scores every text which does not have a specific rubric associated with it. In draft mode, students have all the information they need to improve their score.
### Click on the Score to see how to lift your grades!
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What if students could get instant accurate grades and see how to improve without needing teacher support? \
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What a wonderful world this would be! \
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Scribo can virtually eliminate formative grading by teachers. Use our grading metrics or train a new set yourself. It is so easy to be interactive and accurate with student feedback and grade indicators, without having to be actively involved or holding up the workflow.
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Scribo scores from the top down. Everyone starts with the chance of getting 100%. Along the way, marks get deducted for specified reasons.
In this example, the teacher scoring/rubric preferences deducted marks for –
* Simple grammar and spelling mistakes that were not corrected
* Long sentences – run-on sentences are lazy writing at this level
* Insufficient use of academic words for this level of writing. Again, easily fixed if the student wants to do better
* Not enough subject-specific terms and words
This feedback is instant for students. If they respond to the feedback and fix errors like grammar and spelling, there is an additional 25 marks up for grabs.
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In seconds, students have a grade they can work with in Scribo. As they respond to these grade lowering issues, they see their grade going up. \
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Teachers no longer spend time on draft grades and feedback. In fact, if teachers take a moment to fine-tune how they like to grade, there is very little grading to be done at all.
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Teacher Story
I know a year 11 teacher who does not deduct marks for grammar and spelling errors. Her students usually deliver well corrected, lazy texts every time. Marks get deducted in Scribo for low level word choices, lack of structure and subject words, basic cohesion and lazy sentence structures. If there is a grammar or spelling error, it's on the students to fix it. She doesn't waste her time 'down in the weeds'.\
Interesting hey!