Crowdgrader.org Website Review

I have been using CrowdGrader in my clas*es for several semesters now. It is a life-saver, helping me cope with large student numbers that would otherwise consume significant amounts of teaching-as*istant-time (that I'd prefer to use in different ways). Without CrowdGrader, we would not be able to sustain our curriculum in its current form but rather would have to shrink it significantly. To the existing testimonials, I'd like to add that the CrowdGrader support, specifically Luca de Alfaro, who I have been working with, is stellar. He was able to solve any problem I had quickly and fully, even while in free fall on the Double Black Diamond slopes of Lake Tahoe's skiing Dirk Riehle Professor, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany I've used CrowdGrader in two courses so far, allowing me to as*ign essay questions for 15 case studies to more than 50 students. Without CrowdGrader, it would have been impossible to evaluate so many essay responses and it would have been necessary to limit the scope of the clas*. Luca de Alfaro, the founder, was always very responsive to my questions and requests. read more Kai Pommerenke Lecturer, Economics Department University of California, Santa Cruz CrowdGrader has fundamentally changed the way I teach. Before, as*igning clas*es of 80 students writing as*ignments due before each clas* period was a tactical and grading nightmare. Now it ensures that the vast majority of my students show up to clas* having read, processed, and an*lyzed the as*igned readings. Moreover, the peer grading process requires that students continue to think about the material after the clas* period and provides students who didn’t do the reading before clas* an incentive to get caught up so that they can gain some points by accurately grading their peers’ work. Using CrowdGrader for writing as*ignments is particularly helpful for large and diverse clas*es because it allows students to: 1. learn how their peers approached the same topics,