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Grade your
entire class
in minutes

Pensive AI grades student work and assigns a confidence score to each grade. You can skip manual review for grades that meet human level accuracy and finish grading up to 10x faster.

Pensive is trusted by instructors across leading universities

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Features

AI grading

Given a rubric, Pensive AI grades student submissions and shows its confidence level.

AI feedback generation

Personalized student feedback. You can review, edit, and release.

AI rubric generation

Pensive generates rubrics for you to review and deploy for your assignments.

Optimize for your course

As you edit grades, rubrics, and feedback, Pensive learns your preferences to optimize grading for your course.

AI Essay Grader

AI-powered essay grading with personalized feedback, citation checks, and adaptive scoring

AI essay grading dashboard showing rubric scores and feedback

Personalized Feedback

AI feedback for each student’s strengths and areas for improvement

Learns Grading Style

Adapts to instructor’s grading patterns for more consistent scoring

Citations & Grammar

Detects citation & grammatical errors to improve academic writing

Trusted by Leading Institutions

See how educators and institutions are transforming their grading workflows with Pensive.

“Before Pensive, giving feedback individually to 300 students was impossible. Now, it's actually possible to give every student customized feedback.”

Dr. Tony Dear

Senior Lecturer

Columbia University

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“Effective teaching depends on sustained engagement. Tools like Pensive make it possible to support students more consistently, even in resource-constrained settings.”

Dr. John DeNero

Associate Teaching Professor

UC Berkeley

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“Using Pensive feels like the first time when I encountered ChatGPT.”

Dr. Yan Tang

Associate Professor of Engineering

Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University

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“Pensive helps us grade better, not just faster. It gives us the structure we need to deliver fair, high-quality feedback at scale.”

Dr. Yi Zhang

Senior Lecturer

Columbia University

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“Before Pensive, giving feedback individually to 300 students was impossible. Now, it's actually possible to give every student customized feedback.”

Dr. Tony Dear

Senior Lecturer

Columbia University

View case study

“Effective teaching depends on sustained engagement. Tools like Pensive make it possible to support students more consistently, even in resource-constrained settings.”

Dr. John DeNero

Associate Teaching Professor

UC Berkeley

View case study

“Using Pensive feels like the first time when I encountered ChatGPT.”

Dr. Yan Tang

Associate Professor of Engineering

Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University

View case study

“Pensive helps us grade better, not just faster. It gives us the structure we need to deliver fair, high-quality feedback at scale.”

Dr. Yi Zhang

Senior Lecturer

Columbia University

View case study

Integrates with your LMS

Pensive works with popular LMS platforms like Canvas, Blackboard, Moodle, and others, so students don't need another tool, instructors don't have to manage another platform, and practice stays tied to your course.