Product map and navigation¶
Navigation levels¶
The top bar contains three important menus when a course is selected:
- The course name menu links to Exams, Roster, AI Settings, Access, and Gradebook for the current course. Analysis is available in both the course menu and workspace tabs for exam statistics and anonymous student surveys. Its Student reports card remains limited to users with experimental-feature access.
- The Exams menu opens an exam in its workflow workspace.
- The account menu, shown as the signed-in email or initial, links to Organization when applicable, Documentation, Chatbot when Ask Gradebird is available, Account when local account management is enabled, and Sign out.
Gradebird remembers your most recently selected teaching course for the next time you return to the app. If you are an organization administrator, opening another instructor's course for administrative work does not replace that teaching-course destination. An organization administrator with no teaching courses returns to the newest course they can access. Course menus remain alphabetical even though the fresh-session fallback uses the newest course.
Course workspace¶
Open the course-name menu and choose one of these full-page tabs:
| Tab | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Exams | Create, rename, reorder, delete, and open exams. Each row summarizes draft, canonical version, Print, Scan, Rubric, Grade, and Report state. |
| Roster | Import a roster, add or edit students, activate or deactivate students, perform bulk actions, and manage sections. |
| AI Settings | Edit course context, grading policy, and the ordered course-agent list. |
| Access | Invite collaborators and manage course roles. The course owner can also permanently delete the course here. |
| Gradebook | View completed canonical-exam scores for active students and export selected LMS-formatted rows. |
Creating a course is unavailable to accounts whose only course role is grader.
Exam workflow¶
Existing-PDF exams use Template → Rubric → Scan → Grade → Report. Creating this kind of exam requires experimental access. See Use an existing PDF for preparation, page ordering, crop review, and current copying limitations.
Opening an ordinary QR exam displays Build → Print → Scan → Rubric → Grade → Report. Rubric becomes available after publishing an exam version; you do not need to print or scan first.
Experimental practice exams instead use Build → Print → Rubric → Scan → Release → Report, or Template → Rubric → Scan → Release → Report for an existing PDF. Their Scan page is a private student preview; Release manages personal student links and the AI processing account. Their reports are automatic, unreviewed feedback and never enter official grades.
- Rubric lets instructors import, generate, edit, and publish grading criteria for the published version selected in its Viewing selector. Existing grading-page rubric tools use the same saved rubrics.
- Build can show the editable Draft or a read-only published version.
- Print, Scan, Grade, and Reports operate on one read-only published version.
- The Administration version selector on Print, Scan, Grade, and Reports chooses the canonical version. Changing it is consequential: versionless workflow links subsequently resolve to that version.
- A direct link to a noncanonical Print, Scan, Grade, or Reports version redirects to the current administration version and displays a version notice. It does not silently change the canonical version.
- The eye icon beside the version selector opens the final preview PDF in a new tab.
- Back to course returns to the course's Exams workspace.
The small i controls open information about the selected workflow step.
Find grading setup and score adjustments¶
| Task | Navigation |
|---|---|
| Set exam AI instructions or assign graders | Exam Grade → grading-workspace dropdown → Setup. Exam AI instructions comes first, followed by Graders. |
| Check progress and review across questions | Grade → Overview; use recommended actions or Exam-wide review. |
| Prepare rubrics across the exam | Rubric, after publishing an exam version. |
| Edit a rubric or generate/review assessments | Choose the free-response question in the grading dropdown, then Question & Rubric or Assessment. |
| Configure auto-graded questions | Grade → Auto-graded; all such questions share this entry. |
| Change models, agent order, or course grading policy | Course-name menu AI Settings. |
| Give free points, change points possible, or cap scores | Exam Reports → Student reports → bottom-right hamburger menu → Adjust exam scores…. |
| Compare or export totals across exams | Course-name menu Gradebook. |
See grading setup for instruction scopes and score adjustments for examples and release behavior. Published question content stays frozen while administration settings, grading, and reporting can change.
Role-dependent destinations¶
An instructor or course owner sees the normal course and exam workspaces. A grader sees Grading assignments in the top bar and can open published, gradeable questions permitted by the course grader policy. Course-wide mode grants access to all such questions; assignment mode limits access to assigned questions. The grader's exam overview contains only accessible questions and restricted grading controls. Course-wide or per-question permissions control rubric editing, student identity visibility, and read-only access to existing AI solutions. See Access and roles.
Lists and search¶
Tables can include search, sorting, pagination, and page-length controls. Gradebird remembers those display preferences for the same table in the current browser.