Introduction to Penciil

What is Penciil?

Penciil is an assessment and grading platform built for university courses. Instructors set up courses, create in-person or online assessments, and coordinate a team of graders who mark responses question by question across the whole cohort.

Instead of every grader marking full scripts alone, Penciil splits submissions into individual question responses so your team can work in parallel — faster, with more consistent feedback, no mental math across entire scripts, and less room for errors.

Penciil course dashboard overview

The core building blocks

• Courses — the hub for a module’s roster, team, and assessments.
• Assessments — administered (paper) or assigned (online) work students complete.
• Responses — each student’s answer to a question, graded independently.
• Results — released scores and feedback students can view.

Who does what

Every course has clear roles. Read more in Team member roles to understand what owners, instructors, graders, and students can each do.