Grading large classes without losing consistency (or your sanity)

At ten students, grading is a task. At five hundred, it’s a logistics problem — and consistency is the first thing to slip if the workflow isn’t built for scale.

Structure beats heroics

• Split the work by question so no one owns an unmanageable pile of scripts.
• Calibrate on a handful of responses before the team goes wide.
• Surface outliers for a second look instead of re-reading everything.

Consistency checks across a large cohort

Keep it humane

Consistency and grader wellbeing aren’t at odds. A clear, bounded workload with good tooling means less room for errors — and no mental math juggling scores across hundreds of scripts — which keeps quality high and burnout low across a long marking week.