Prepare once. Keep your guidance.
Save requirements, rubrics, and model solutions for an assessment. Return to the same materials from the extension or your dashboard.
Reusable grading materialsBuilt around your teaching
Your standards.
Less repetitive work.
Bring your rubrics, model solutions, and feedback guidance into assignment and exam grading. TurboGrading drafts marks and comments inside D2L Brightspace and Blackboard Ultra, ready for your judgment.
Built for the work behind every grade
Your standards.
Less repetitive work.
Bring together your teaching materials, grading guidance, and feedback in the workflow you already know.
Make every criterion count.
Guide suggestions with your rubric. Supported Brightspace assignment rubrics receive scores and feedback for assessable criteria.
Rubric-based feedbackGive written answers more attention.
Draft marks and explanations for written-response exams, with your grading and feedback instructions guiding the result.
Written-response examsGo beyond the essay.
Work with documents, slides, spreadsheets, code, and more. Identify where complex submissions need your closer review.
Files and visual evidenceKeep the context behind the grade.
Revisit saved evaluations, feedback, and grading context in a dashboard organized around your courses and assessments.
Your grading dashboardChoose how student names are saved.
Store, omit, or encrypt dedicated student-name records. Unlock encrypted names with your educator PIN or password.
Student-name controlsWritten-response exam example
See how a computer science answer is graded.
Follow a binary-search question from your marking guide to a suggested score and short feedback. You review and edit the result.
Your question and marking guide
Explain how binary search finds a target in an array of n elements. State how the array must be ordered and give the tight worst-case time complexity.
| Criterion | Available marks |
|---|---|
| Search method | 3 |
| Sorted-array requirement | 3 |
| Halving and time complexity | 4 |
| Question maximum | 10 |
For the final criterion, award 2 marks for recognizing repeated halving and 2 for the correct O(log n) complexity.
Feedback instruction: Briefly explain any deductions.
The student’s answer
“The array must be sorted. Compare the target with the middle element, then search the left or right half based on that comparison. Repeat until the target is found or no elements remain. The range halves each time, so the tight worst-case time complexity is O(n).”
Suggested grade and feedback
Illustrative exampleSuggested question score8 / 10
You can edit the mark and feedback in your LMS.
2 marks deducted for stating O(n) as the tight bound. Repeated halving gives O(log n) worst-case time complexity.
2 marks deducted for stating O(n) as the tight bound. Repeated halving gives O(log n) worst-case time complexity.
Instructor’s additionTrace a search through a sorted array of 16 items. Count the halvings and connect that pattern to log₂ n.
Guide the grading your way
Save your rubric, model answers, and grading instructions in the exam settings. Use feedback instructions to set the style of the response.
Your assessment reference library
Prepare once.
Keep your guidance close.
Give every grading pass the context of your course. Save requirements, rubrics, model solutions, and supporting files with the assessment.
- Reuse the assessment's saved materials across student submissions.
- Manage the same reference files from the extension or dashboard, across browsers.
- Replace a document, keep earlier versions, or archive material you no longer want used.
- Find materials by filename, assessment, or course in your dashboard library.
Critical thinking assignment
A clear starting point for grading
- Assignment brief.pdfRequirements · What students need to demonstrate
- Marking rubric.docxRubric · The criteria behind your marks
- Model solution.pdfSolution · Your reference for a strong response
Saved reference formats include PDF, DOCX, XLSX, PowerPoint, and supported text and code files. Reference and student-upload formats differ.
From your criteria to useful feedback
Support for the way you assess.
Stay on the grading page. Use your own requirements to guide the suggestions, then refine the result before sharing it.
Assignments & rubrics
Put your criteria to work.
Evaluate supported student files against your assignment requirements, rubric guidance, and additional instructions. Select the relevant submission files before grading.
Supported Brightspace assignment rubrics can receive scores and feedback for individual criteria with assessable evidence, alongside overall assignment feedback.
Written-response exams
Help students understand their marks.
Generate suggested marks and explanations for written answers using the question, available answer context, and your saved exam guidance. Supported student attachments can contribute to the evaluation.
Brightspace supports question-level feedback and supported question and answer images. Blackboard combines question explanations in Overall Feedback; visual exam content needs instructor review.
Your feedback style
Guide the detail. Refine the message.
Save separate grading and feedback instructions for an exam. Ask for the tone, detail, and emphasis that suit your teaching, and edit the suggested comments in your LMS.
Use the feedback as a starting point for a specific, constructive conversation about the student's work.
Saving & publishing
Choose what happens after grading.
In Brightspace, choose draft saving, manual review, or automatic publishing on supported workflows. Select draft or manual handling when you want to review each result first.
In Blackboard Ultra, save overall feedback and review and post grades with Blackboard's controls. Saving options depend on the LMS and your preferences.
Supported assignment files
Bring the work.
Keep your workflow.
From essays and slide decks to spreadsheets and code, evaluate supported files against your assignment requirements.
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PDF documents
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Word documents
- .doc
- .docx
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Presentations
- .ppt
- .pptx
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Spreadsheets
- .xlsx
- .csv
- .tsv
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Images
- .png
- .jpg
- .jpeg
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Power BI
- .pbix
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Text & code
- .txt
- .py
- .js
- .sql
- + more, including Markdown, Java, C, C++, HTML, CSS, and JSON
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ZIP archives
- .zip
PDF, Word, text & code inside
For Power BI submissions, include a report PDF or screenshots to support visual review. Exam attachments and saved reference files support different formats; file and upload limits depend on the workflow.
Beyond plain text
Bring complex work into the conversation.
Different assignments need different evidence. Pair supported files with PDFs or screenshots when charts, layout, or report visuals matter to the grade.
Spreadsheets with substance
Inspect stored worksheet data, formulas, and saved values in XLSX submissions. Add visual evidence when charts or dashboard appearance count.
Workbooks are not recalculated, and macros are not run.
Presentations & reports
Evaluate supported presentation content and inspect Power BI packages. Include a report PDF or screenshots to support visual criteria.
Live Power BI interactions still need your review.
Know what needs attention
Missing or unassessable evidence can trigger instructor review. Supported Brightspace rubrics can return labeled provisional results for assessable criteria.
Understand provisional resultsReview excluded criteria before finalizing a provisional result. Provisional results are not published automatically. Any subtotal that leaves points for instructor assessment is separate from the final grade.
A workspace for the instructor
Keep the record. Choose what you save.
Your grading history, organized.
Move from institution to semester, course, and assessment to revisit assignment evaluations and exam attempts. See saved grades, feedback, and the grading context recorded with the evaluation.
Check available credits and usage in your account as you plan your next grading session.
Dashboard records capture the saved evaluation. Later changes made in your LMS are not automatically reflected.
Your choice for saved student names.
- Store
- Do not store
- Encrypt
Choose readable names, omit saved names, or encrypt them and unlock with your educator PIN or password. New accounts default to not storing dedicated student-name records.
These controls apply to dedicated name fields. They do not anonymize student IDs, submitted files, or text within feedback.
Understand the privacy choicesAt home in your LMS
The right expectations for your platform.
TurboGrading works through its Chrome extension on supported D2L Brightspace and Blackboard Ultra grading pages.
| Workflow | D2L Brightspace | Blackboard Ultra |
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| Assignments | Supported student files; criterion scores and feedback for supported assignment rubrics. | Supported student files, suggested grades, and overall feedback. |
| Written-response exams | Suggested marks, question-level feedback, and overall feedback. | Suggested marks with question explanations combined in Overall Feedback. |
| Reference materials | Saved assessment files and instructions, managed in the extension or dashboard. | Saved assessment files and instructions, managed in the extension or dashboard. |
| Exam images | Supported question and answer images can provide visual context. | Visual exam content requires instructor review. |
| Release controls | Draft, manual review, or automatic publishing on supported workflows. | Save overall feedback; review and post grades using Blackboard controls. |
The exam workflow focuses on written responses; multiple-choice questions are excluded from AI grading. Contact us about your institution's grading setup.
Bring your next assessment
Start with your materials. Make the feedback yours.
Add TurboGrading to Chrome, sign in, and open a supported grading page. Check the Plans page for current packages and allowances.