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Gradely Case Study
Building a Smarter Assessment Experience for Modern Educators
Assessment Tools Built Around Modern Educators
Gradely is a teacher-centered platform designed to help educators move beyond traditional grading and assess student learning through Depth of Knowledge (DOK) levels and proficiency-based assessment.
The platform combines assessment tracking, AI-generated feedback, curriculum planning, student analytics, and classroom resources in one digital experience.
Making Assessment More Connected and Useful
Teachers often have to manage assessment, feedback, lesson planning, student progress, and learning resources across different processes and tools.
Gradely was built to bring these activities into a more connected experience while keeping teachers at the center of the assessment process.
The platform needed to help educators:
- Record and track student assessments
- Assess learning through DOK levels and proficiency scales
- Generate personalized feedback
- Build units, lesson plans, rubrics, worksheets, and activities
- Monitor student progress and learning patterns
- Make assessment more practical and efficient
Gradely's core approach is not to replace teacher judgment with AI, but to use AI as a supporting tool within the assessment process.
Turning Assessment Into a Connected Experience
We focused on creating an experience where assessment, planning, feedback, and student progress could work together rather than feeling like separate tasks.
DOK-Based Assessment
Gradely incorporates four Depth of Knowledge levels, from recall and reproduction through extended thinking, allowing teachers to record and understand the level of thinking demonstrated by students.
Proficiency-Based Grading
The platform uses a proficiency scale ranging from Emerging to Extending, helping shift the focus from simply assigning grades toward understanding student progress and learning.
AI-Powered Feedback
Once assessments are recorded, Gradely can generate personalized feedback comments based on the assessment data. These comments can then be reviewed, edited, and used for report cards or communication with families.
Curriculum & Resource Tools
Beyond assessment, Gradely brings curriculum planning and resource creation into the same platform, including unit plans, lesson plans, worksheets, rubrics, and student activities.
Student Insights
Assessment data can be tracked across students, subjects, DOK levels, and proficiency scales, giving teachers a way to identify learning patterns, strengths, and areas that need attention.
Assessment Should Help Teachers Understand Learning
The result is an education platform built around a simple idea: assessment should help teachers understand learning, not simply record a number.
Gradely brings assessment recording, feedback generation, curriculum tools, student tracking, and analytics into one teacher-focused environment.
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A More Connected Assessment Workflow
Gradely was designed to give teachers practical tools that simplify assessment while helping them better understand student learning.
A More Meaningful Assessment Process
Gradely gives teachers tools designed around qualitative, proficiency-based assessment rather than relying solely on traditional numerical grades.
Less Manual Work
AI-assisted feedback and resource generation can reduce repetitive work involved in creating comments, plans, rubrics, worksheets, and activities.
Better Student Visibility
Teachers can track assessments and view progress across students, subjects, DOK levels, and proficiency scales.
One Connected Workflow
Assessment, curriculum planning, feedback, resource creation, and student progress tracking are brought together within the same platform.
Built Around Teachers
Gradely's stated philosophy is to keep professional judgment with educators while using technology to support the assessment process.
Technology in Education Doesn't Have to Replace the Teacher.
It can remove repetitive work.
Make information easier to understand.
Create better feedback.
And give educators more time to focus on the students behind the data.
That's what Gradely is built to do.
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