Crowdmark vs Rubrical

Crowdmark is a web application for evaluating, discussing and responding to exams, essays, lab reports and other student work. Instructors can use paper assessments they already have, create assignments or set up exams with multiple-choice questions. They can scan and upload student work, while students can submit assignments using mobile phones. Grading tools support scores, graphical annotations, hypertext comments, mathematical notation and reusable comments. Crowdmark reports student performance by question and provides an API for extracting insights. Its FAQ lists roster and grade synchronization with Canvas, Brightspace/D2L, Moodle, Blackboard and Sakai. The Canvas connection can import courses, rosters, team members and sections, and export grades. The service serves higher education and K–12, with licensing options for instructors, departments, enterprises, schools and school districts. Prices are quoted by Crowdmark, and both course-based and annual subscriptions are listed. Crowdmark says personal information may be processed and stored outside Canada, including in the United States.

Rubrical is a web-based AI teaching platform for geography departments. Teachers can upload PDF, Word, or image assessments and mark schemes, or create rubrics themselves. It marks answers criterion by criterion against the selected rubric, presents reasoning and evidence, and drafts feedback; a teacher approves every mark and feedback item before delivery to students or writing to an LMS. Rubrical also drafts specification-aligned objectives, timed lessons, and tiered resources grounded in checkable sources. Approved results produce assessment-objective breakdowns, question-difficulty rankings, at-risk flags, misconception heatmaps, and plain-English queries. Work can come from Google Classroom, Microsoft Teams, scans, or student hand-in links. It supports AQA, Edexcel, OCR, WJEC/Eduqas, and user rubrics. Feedback can be simplified, enlarged, shown in OpenDyslexic, or translated. Core school data is stored in London. Rubrical says student and learning-platform data are not used to improve AI models. Pricing is available by contacting the team.