computer aided essay grading October 7, 2010 4:44 PM   Subscribe
Have you used software to help you grade student essays? Tell me
about your experience.  I teach college freshman composition
(among other things), and I tend to take *way* too much time
grading students essays (I don't get them back quickly enough;
it also absorbs time I need for class prep and other projects).
So I'm just starting to consider the idea of using some sort of
software to help me grade more quickly.  I'd like to know your
opinion about paper-grading software. I'm not thinking of
software that automatically scores student writing (a horrible
and clearly unworkable idea imho), but rather software that
would in theory help me streamline my grading process by to some
degree automating the process of commenting on essays.  I'm used
to sitting with a clipboard, a paper, and a cup of tea. And it
it weren't for my habit of hemming and hawing and thinking
digressively about each of my papers, this method would be
pretty good--certainly mo