Free College Essay Checker
Empower your teaching with our free college essay checker. It helps you review student essays faster by flagging issues with grammar, style, logic, and even plagiarism. You’ll save valuable time while still giving clear, useful feedback your students can rely on.
P.S. Sign up to unlock essay grading for entire classes in 1-click and custom rubrics.

What you can do with our college essay checker

Bulk Upload
Stay engaged with real-time grading progress updates while we handle the rest.

Custom Rubrics
Build and apply your own rubrics giving you full control over how you want the AI grader to grade.

Rubrics Library
Browse the library with over 500 rubrics aligned with state, national, and international standards.

Feedback Reports
EssayGrader AI provides students with detailed feedback on content, style, grammar and more at scale.

AI Essay Detection
Identify AI-generated content and ensure originality within essays with high accuracy.

Plagiarism Detection
Ensure originality with EssayGrader AI’s built-in plagiarism detection.

Google Classroom Integration
Easily connect your Google Classroom and let AI Essay Grader handle the grading.

Canvas LMS Integration
Easily connect your Canvas LMS and let AI Essay Grader handle the grading.

Performance Insights
Gain insights into student writing proficiency at the individual, assignment, and class levels.

Dashboard
Manage student submissions, track progress, and export grades from one dashboard.

Classes
Create and manage classes, organizing students and their essays by class easily.

AI Essay Summarizer
Quickly extract key details with EssayGrader, saving time and enhancing grading clarity.
How does our college essay grader work?
Our college essay grader quickly scans college essays for mistakes and areas that need improvement. It reviews grammar, punctuation, and the flow of ideas, then creates a report with detailed insights. This lets you focus more on guiding your students than on endless proofreading.
Create your own rubrics
Create the rubrics you use in your classroom, setting customized criteria for every assignment.
Upload essays
Upload student submissions in bulk from Google Drive, One Drive, Box, DropBox or Google Classroom.
Download results at scale
Get detailed feedback and reports on the essays, ready to share with your students.
Benefits of our AI college essay checker
Time efficiency & streamlined grading
Simplify and speed up the grading process with intuitive features, allowing you to focus on impactful teaching.
Consistency
& fairness
Ensure fair and accurate grading by eliminating human bias, all while aligning with your curriculum standards.
Actionable insights
& feedback
Receive detailed feedback and growth insights on each essay and seamlessly share them with your students.
Error-free & polished writing
Automatically get detailed analysis on the essay along with spelling, grammar and syntax reports to ensure the written essays are clear, professional and well-structured
Actionable insights and feedback
Get in-depth analysis of writing, highlighting strengths and areas for improvement, leading to better learning outcomes
Consistency and Fairness
Standardize grading by eliminating subjective bias, ensuring every student receives fair and objective feedback based on defined writing standards.
What does our free college essay checker assess?
Our free college essay checker reviews the key parts of every essay, structure, clarity, grammar, originality, and more, so you can give faster, more focused feedback that actually helps students improve.
Grammar, Spelling & Punctuation
Recognize even tiny errors that can distract from a paper’s message. This ensures each essay is clear and polished.
With Your Own Rubrics, It's In Your Hands
You decide the rules. Customize the criteria to match your classroom standards and grading methods. Whether you build your own or choose from pre-made rubrics designed to suit a variety of assignments, your feedback stays on point.
Logical Inconsistencies
Spot areas where an essay might be confusing or where ideas don’t connect well. This helps you pinpoint exactly where your students need more guidance.
Plagiarism & AI Detection
Check for originality to ensure academic integrity and fair grading. Our tool flags copied content or text generated by AI to help you maintain the high standards of your classroom.
More than a college essay reader
You don’t just read essays, and neither does EssayGrader. Our college essay checker coaches students to think and improve. Add your own rubrics to give consistent, high-quality feedback across the whole class, and spend your valuable time teaching.
What teachers say about EssayGrader
Frequently asked questions
Our answers to some of the most common questions teachers ask us. Feel free to contact us, if you don't see your particular question.
EssayGrader is an AI-powered essay grading platform designed to help teachers streamline the grading process and save hours of time.
Our AI essay grader allows teachers in the elementary, middle school, high school, and college levels to recreate their grading rubrics, customized to match their specific curriculum and standards.
Teachers can directly import student submissions from their learning management systems like Google Classroom, Canvas, and soon, Schoology into EssayGrader.
Using advanced AI technology and proprietary algorithms, EssayGrader instantly applies the rubric to scan, analyze, and evaluate each paper. It delivers accurate grades and detailed feedback for the entire class in just minutes.
Absolutely! Thousands of teachers use EssayGrader every day to grade writing in all kinds of subjects - not just English. Whether it's History essays, Science reports or Geography assignments, EssayGrader can handle it.
Absolutely! EssayGrader supports multiple languages, including Spanish, French, Chinese, Japanese and more. You can set different input and output languages, and it also supports English variants like US, UK, and Australian English.
We take a privacy-first approach and follow strict data minimization practices. Student names, emails, or IDs are never required to grade assignments.
All student work remains fully owned by the teacher or school, and is protected with encryption both in transit and at rest. We use submissions solely to generate grading feedback. We never use them to train AI essay grading models, and we never resell or share any data.
Teachers have full control and can delete submissions at any time. EssayGrader is FERPA and COPPA compliant, follows the NIST cybersecurity framework, is SOC 2 Type I certified, and uses industry-standard security protocols to keep your data safe.
EssayGrader’s grading is highly accurate, with less than 5% variance compared to human grading in a sample of over 500 essays. This variance may arise from personal biases or grading fatigue. While EssayGrader works to minimize errors and ensure reliable results, we encourage teachers to be part of the feedback loop with the students. Our built-in features allow teachers to review and adjust feedback before sharing it with students.
EssayGrader uses advanced artificial intelligence to streamline the grading process. Unlike traditional methods, which can be time-consuming and prone to fatigue-based inconsistencies, our AI Essay Grader provides instant, consistent evaluations based on the rubric you create. Teachers can focus more on personalized instruction by letting the AI handle repetitive tasks.
An AI Essay Grader, like ours, offers several benefits for educators and teachers, including:
- Speed: Grades essays and papers instantly, saving teachers hours of manual work.
- Consistency: Eliminates grading bias by applying the same rubric uniformly.
- Scalability: Grades large classes or multiple submissions within minutes.
Customizability: Adapts to rubrics for various subjects and languages.EssayGrader, for example, ensures high accuracy and supports educators in providing timely, quality feedback.
Absolutely not! Teachers use EssayGrader to grade short answers, DBQs, research reports, case studies, long-form essays, short-form essays, journals, summaries, and more. If it involves writing, EssayGrader can handle it.
Yes and yes! EssayGrader includes built-in tools for both AI writing detection and plagiarism checks. If a submission shows signs of AI-generated content or overlaps with work from other students, it will be flagged for your review. It’s a simple way to uphold academic integrity while streamlining your grading process.
Absolutely! EssayGrader supports all major curriculum standards and academic frameworks, including CCSS (with state-specific adaptations), Texas STAAR, Florida B.E.S.T., Arkansas ATLAS, College Board AP, and more. We also support international standards like IB, Cambridge, British, Australian, Canadian, New Zealand, and Singapore frameworks.
You can explore our library of 400+ prebuilt rubrics, or easily create your own rubric in under a minute by uploading your rubric files. It’s fast, flexible, and built to match your exact teaching needs.
EssayGrader’s integrations with Google Classroom, Canvas and Schoology learning management systems are natively built into the platform, with no reliance on third-party middleware. That means no extra steps for the teachers, no app-hopping, and no unnecessary friction. Everything works securely and seamlessly within EssayGrader, so you can import student work and start grading right away - without compromising speed or student data privacy.
Absolutely! In addition to individual educator plans, EssayGrader offers school and district-wide licenses. If you're interested, just reach out to us at hello@essaygrader.ai or book a demo here and we’ll help customize a plan that fits your school's needs.
You can also check out our Schools & Districts section in the FAQ for more details.
Absolutely! We partner with schools, school districts, and colleges across the U.S to provide tailored, school-wide solutions. Book a quick demo to learn more about our plans and how EssayGrader can support your teachers at scale.
Yes, we do. EssayGrader signs DPAs with school districts and is listed on the National Data Privacy Agreement (NDPA) database. If your district uses its own DPA, feel free to send it over at privacy@essaygrader.ai. Due to the high volume of requests, please allow up to 2 weeks for our legal team to review and respond.
You can download our W9 from essaygrader.ai/w9 or request it by emailing hello@essaygrader.ai.
We take a privacy-first approach and follow strict data minimization practices. Student names, emails, or IDs are never required to grade assignments.
All student work remains fully owned by the school, and is protected with encryption both in transit and at rest. We use submissions solely to generate grading feedback. We never use them to train AI models, and we never resell or share any data.
Your educators have full control and can delete submissions at any time. EssayGrader is FERPA and COPPA compliant, follows the NIST cybersecurity framework, is SOC 2 Type I certified, and uses industry-standard security protocols to keep your data safe.
Yes! Every school receives a live onboarding training session at the time of purchase, so your staff can start grading with confidence from day one. We also offer two free certification courses for educators who want to become EssayGrader AI Certified - perfect for those who want to deepen their skills and master the platform.
In fact, schools that complete our expert-led onboarding see a 35% increase in usage, thereby giving you a better ROI on EssayGrader.. We strongly recommend adding training to ensure your Teachers get the most out of our AI essay grader.
EssayGrader integrates directly with Google Classroom, Canvas, and Schoology. These are native integrations built into the platform, meaning there’s no need for third-party middleware. Teachers can import student submissions, grade them using EssayGrader, and export the results back to the choice of their LMS - all without extra steps, app-switching, or added friction. It’s a fast, secure, and seamless experience that protects student data and saves valuable time.
Yes! EssayGrader integrates seamlessly with Google Classroom. You can import assignments, grade them using your rubric, check for AI and Plagiarism and sync grades back to the Classroom - all in just a few clicks. It’s our most popular integration, with over half a million assignments graded through it so far.
Yes! EssayGrader integrates seamlessly with Canvas LMS. You can import assignments, grade them using your rubric, check for AI and Plagiarism and sync grades back to the Canvas (SpeedGrader) - all in just a few clicks. It’s our 2nd most popular integration, with over 300,000 assignments graded so far.
We are working on a Schoology integration and we should have that ready by September 2025.
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