By Maegan Vazquez, NYU Local
If you thought your professors were tough paper critics, just wait for EdX’s newly unveiled online essay grader software, which instantly grades student essays and short exam answers seconds after you press send. The software is part of a nonprofit platform founded by Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and offers online classes from top tier universities to students around the world and has been hailed as the “Linux of online learning.” EdX is also giving high school students the chance to take online courses at Ivy Leagues. How does the technology ‘learn’ to grade? The tool asks a human to grade 100 essays or short written answers. Then, it becomes trained on the human’s grading method and grades other essays accordingly. The method will provide general feedback to tell a student whether they’re on-topic or not. It will also allow students to rewrite and resubmit their essays an unlimited amount of times.
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