You gave up your weekend for feedback nobody read.
Make AI your students' first grader and yourself their last. They confront the rubric before you ever see the work, and your grading time per student drops to roughly half.
Yours forever. Delivered the second you pay.
If your feedback does not change the next assignment, it was decoration.
You wrote four paragraphs on the margin of a paper. You explained the thesis problem, the evidence problem, and the structural problem. It took eleven minutes.
The student looked at the grade, scrolled past everything you wrote, and made the same three mistakes on the next one.
Meanwhile half of what you wrote was not teaching at all. It was you telling a student something the rubric already said, because they submitted without reading it.
Let the rubric do the first pass.
AI becomes the first grader. Brutally honest, locked to your rubric, available at 11pm when the student is actually working. They paste in their draft and get back a scorecard with evidence-cited scores and a prioritized list of what to fix.
You become the last grader. You only ever see work that already cleared the rubric, so the feedback you write is about what matters instead of about whether they read the criteria.
The rule that keeps this honest: AI drafts, you coach. No AI judgment goes straight to a student. You stay in charge of the rubric, the priorities, and the final word.
Three phases, in order
- 1
Tune the rubric so it is actually scoreable. Vague rubrics produce vague AI grades and no time savings. Once per assignment.
- 2
Students pre-grade their own draft against your tuned rubric, revise, and complete a short self-assessment on what they changed.
- 3
You write developmental feedback on work that already cleared the bar, in under ten minutes per student.
- 4
Run the cross-student pattern prompt and turn the grading you just did into next class's mini-lesson.
Skip a phase and the math stops working. The rubric tune-up is the one people skip, and it is the one everything else depends on.
What is inside
One deep worked example runs a business writing essay end to end through every artifact, from student draft to your final feedback. Three shorter ones cover a problem set, a lab report, and a final project.
The Three-Phase Workflow
Tune the rubric, students pre-grade and self-assess, you write developmental feedback. The spine the whole system hangs on.
The Rubric Tune-Up Prompt
The prerequisite everyone skips. Turns any rubric into one an AI can score consistently and a student can act on.
The Student Pre-Grade Prompt
The engine. Students get back a rubric scorecard with evidence-cited scores and prioritized revision actions before they submit.
The Self-Assessment Add-On
A five-section reflective template that turns the pre-grade from polishing a draft into real metacognition.
The Feedback Studio Loop
Summarize, diagnose, draft. The three-step instructor workflow that gets you under ten minutes per student without losing your voice.
The Cross-Student Pattern Prompt
Turn the stack you just graded into next week's mini-lesson, built from what your actual students actually got wrong.
The Student Handout
A plain-language explainer you can paste into your LMS in two minutes, so students understand the pre-grade is not a shortcut.
The Five-Day Rollout
From drowning in grading to your first AI pre-graded assignment shipped, inside one work week.
What this will not do
It will not grade for you. If you were hoping to hand the stack to ChatGPT and go to dinner, this is the wrong purchase. You still read every submission and you still write the feedback that matters.
It will not fix a vague rubric on its own. The tune-up prompt is in here for a reason, and if you skip it the AI scores will be as fuzzy as the criteria you gave it.
And it will not work on an assignment students do not care about. Nothing does.
Three phases, four prompts, the student handout, one deep worked example and three shorter ones, and a five-day rollout. Yours forever, and it works on every assignment you grade from here on.
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This is also included in the How To Teach With AI membership, along with every other system and tool I have built, for $40 a month.
See the membershipThe stack is coming either way
In three weeks you will lose another Sunday to a pile of drafts that all make the same fixable mistakes, and you will write the same margin note thirty times, and the next assignment will come back with the same mistakes in it.
Or the fixable stuff gets fixed before you ever see it, and you spend your Sunday on the ten percent that actually needed you.
Start with one assignment. The one you dread grading most is the one to pick.
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