Crowdmark vs UniRubric

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.

UniRubric is a higher-education AI assessment platform that drafts rubric-anchored grades with quoted evidence for lecturer review. Lecturers can upload rubrics as DOCX, PDF, or plain text, then add student submissions individually or as a class. Each grade remains a draft until a lecturer reviews, edits, and approves it; it is not released to a student beforehand. Institutional integrations include Canvas, Moodle, and Blackboard through LTI 1.3, while the contracting page also lists Brightspace. A faculty lead dashboard shows rubric calibration across markers and can draft a meeting agenda and schedule a calibration meeting. Customer data, submissions, rubrics, and grading runs are region-pinned to Sydney, Australia, under standard operating conditions. The maker states that data is encrypted in transit and at rest, and customer work is not used to train or fine-tune models. Deleted assignments are removed from production within 24 hours and backups within 35 days; grading-run audit logs are retained for seven years. The Lecturer Free plan provides one lifetime marking job; Lecturer Premium costs $15 per month.