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Custom Rubrics

Upload your own rubrics or build them inside Winston AI, including CCSS, AP, IB and local rubrics. Control criteria, weights and scoring bands.

Deep feedback reports

Each essay gets detailed feedback on content, organization, evidence, voice, grammar and mechanics, written in student friendly language.

80% time saved on grading

Spending less time on grading without sacrificing the quality of feedback students need to improve.

AI writing and plagiarism checks

Flag potential AI generated content or copied passages so you can protect academic integrity and have better conversations about originality.

Rubric library

Start fast with a growing library of pre built rubrics aligned to common standards and assignments.

How it works

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Upload Essays / Connect to your LMS

  • Upload your essays individually or in batches.
  • Import essays from Google Classroom or upload files directly.
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The grading assistant for everyone

Individual Teachers

Perfect for teachers who want to save hours each week while giving students richer feedback on essays, DBQs, research papers and more.

Departments and grade level teams

Standardize rubrics and expectations across your team, share rubrics and monitor student progress together.

Schools and districts

Support writing across the curriculum with consistent, calibrated scoring and data that helps with progress monitoring, interventions and reporting.

See what our users say about our product

"I used to spend entire Sunday afternoons grading essays. With Winston AI’s essay grader, I upload the rubric once and get draft scores and comments back in minutes. I still review everything, but the heavy lifting is done. It’s genuinely changed my weekends."
Rachel Pemberton
Rachel Pemberton
Secondary Education Curriculum Coordinator
"What surprised me most was how well it sticks to my rubric. I teach a very specific argumentation framework, and the grader doesn’t try to override it – it grades the way I grade. The feedback it drafts actually sounds like a teacher wrote it."
Brett Kowalski
Brett Kowalski
High School English Department Head
"We piloted the essay grader across 12 classrooms last semester. Teachers reported spending 60-70% less time on first-pass grading, and students said the feedback was more detailed than before. The Google Classroom integration made adoption seamless."
Raj Patel
Raj Patel
11th Grade History Teacher
"AP essays are complex, with multi-layered arguments and sophisticated literary analysis. I was skeptical that any AI could handle that level of nuance. It handles it well. I still catch things and refine the comments, but it gives me an excellent starting point every time."
Diane Fontaine
Diane Fontaine
8th Grade Science Teacher
"My students write in English as a second language, and I need feedback that’s constructive without being discouraging. The essay grader drafts comments that are clear, specific, and encouraging – I barely have to edit them. It’s been a huge help for my class load."
Caleb Whitmore
Caleb Whitmore
Instructional Technology Specialist

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