A grading-assurance assistant for Moodle
Consistent, defensible grading — that your markers actually welcome.
Your markers grade the way they always have. Grade Confidence quietly checks each grade against your rubric for consistency, and surfaces the evidence behind it — so a grade that's questioned is answered with proof, not memory.
The human always decides. It's an assistant, not an auto-grader — and it never tracks or scores individual teachers.
Grading drifts. The bill arrives later.
By essay #60, no one marks quite the way they did at essay #5 — that's human, not negligence. The cost shows up weeks later: a student appeals, an external examiner or auditor asks "how do you know grading was consistent and fair?", a parent disputes a result, and moderation quietly eats hours. The need is real. The trick is meeting it without making your markers feel watched.
One tool, three people who each have to say yes
A grading-assurance tool only works if it serves the person who owns the standard, the markers who use it, and the admin who installs it. Here's what each one gets — and why none of them loses.
Deans, L&D leads, principals
Consistency across every marker, a defensible audit trail for appeals and external examiners, fewer disputes, and fairness evidence when a regulator or a parent asks.
Your teachers & assessors
A private second look on their own work — they stay in control, students never see it, and it has no concept of "who graded": no scoreboard, no league table. So they adopt it instead of resisting it.
Your Moodle admin
Open source (GPLv3), uses the AI provider you already trust — or a local model, privacy by design, a hard per-course budget, heavily tested, and honest about being early.
Four worries. Four answers.
Not a black box that takes over. A quiet check that helps people defend the grades they've already made.
Catch it before it's an appeal
Inconsistencies surface while marking — not weeks later in a complaint. Moderate only the flagged cases instead of blind double-marking everything.
AI that won't surprise the budget
Use the AI provider you already trust — or a local model for no per-mark fee. Set a hard per-course budget, and see the spend. It won't quietly run away.
Keep the receipts
Every review leaves a reasoning trace, verified evidence, and a log — a defensible record when a grade is challenged, instead of relying on memory.
A neutral check on drift
An optional ESL-fair mode judges ideas by the rubric, not phrasing or dialect — useful evidence of fairness for regulators and parents alike.
The honest part
It's an assurance assistant, not magic. The human stays in charge — which is also the safer posture under the EU AI Act.
It's early: an alpha we're being upfront about, looking for a few real teams to pilot it and tell us the truth.
It's free and open source (GPLv3) — your admin can read every line.
On compliance, plainly: it ships student-transparency text and an EU AI Act readiness pack, but it is not certified. It supports your own compliance work; it doesn't replace your responsibility for it.
Let's find out if it fits
If grade consistency, defensibility, or marking workload is a real cost for you, let's put it in front of your markers and find out — honestly. One course, one cohort, one conversation.
Works with Moodle assignments and quiz essay questions. Reads your existing rubric. Nothing new for students to learn.