ZipGrade

Don’t take your grading home!

ZipGrade turns your phone or tablet into an optical grading machine similar to a Scantron. It reads free-to-download answer sheets in multiple sizes. Provide instant feedback to students by grading exit tickets, quizzes, and formative assessments as soon as they finish.

• Free answer sheets available in several formats and sizes up to 100 questions.
• Organizes results for reporting and exporting via PDF and Excel-readable format
• Uses student ID numbers or written name of student for reporting.
• Use companion website (www.zipgrade.com) to manage your data and upload student lists and review results in dozens of reports and exports.

ZipGrade LLC is a single-founder, bootstrapped company founded by John Viebach. John’s wife was teaching an SAT prep class in the evenings in a borrowed classroom. Without access to an OMR machine, she was grading bubble-in answer sheets by hand at the end of every class. A few years previous, John had been experimenting with computer vision grading as part of his volunteer work with a state high school mathlete contest. With smartphone capabilities improving and a very obvious need, John set to work to create a cost effective grading app for the iPhone.

Unlike many ed-tech companies, we derive no revenue from advertising or marketing of data entrusted to us. We also do not take investments from venture capital firms. This frees us to focus on building a sustainable company for our true end users– teachers. To make this possible, we charge a reasonable price that allows us to continue new development and maintain the systems required to support our existing users.