Additio App vs GradingPal

Additio App is a formative assessment and daily classroom management platform for teachers and educational centers. Teachers Standard provides a customizable gradebook, educational monitoring and planning, assessment tools, attendance records, class scheduling, and student progress reports. Assessment options include customizable rubrics, self-assessment, peer assessment, skills-based assessment, and formative feedback. Teachers Pro AI adds an AI chat assistant, AI-generated customizable rubrics, AI-assisted lesson planning, and new AI features during the school year. Additio App integrates with Google Classroom, Microsoft Teams, and Moodle, and offers an API. Users can export data in Excel format at any time. The company says it follows GDPR and Spain’s Organic Law 3/2018, uses Hetzner and Amazon servers with 256-bit encryption, and does not sell or reuse customer data for other purposes. Teachers Standard costs €13.99 a year; Teachers Pro AI costs €29.99 a year, both VAT included.

GradingPal is a web tool for teachers assessing student work with rubrics. It generates scores and individualized feedback, and its classroom analytics can surface patterns in student strengths and gaps for instructional planning. It supports essays, worksheets, quizzes, exams, problem sets, presentations, art, and oral or video assignments, including supported handwritten math and science work. Teachers can inspect assessment evidence, adjust scores and comments, choose what students receive, and set feedback style, language, and detail. The tool supports Common Core, NGSS, TEKS, AP, IB, and teacher-defined criteria. Google Classroom can import classes, assignments, rubrics, and supported submissions, then receive approved comments with or without grades; Canvas and Schoology are available on school plans. The Free plan allows 50 submissions monthly. Lite is $14 a month billed annually, with 250 submissions monthly; Pro is $26 a month billed annually, with unlimited submissions and analytics. Student work is not used to train AI models, according to GradingPal.