AI for Higher Ed Faculty / Adjunct Professor

of 6— Set up your feedback template once per assignment

What you'll accomplish

Grading 30 essays by hand takes 5–7 hours. With this system, the same batch takes under 2 hours. You'll build a repeatable workflow for generating rubric-aligned, specific feedback on student essays in under 4 minutes per paper, while students get more consistent feedback than rushed hand-written comments allow.

What you'll need

A Claude Pro account at claude.ai ($20/month — the extended context fits 5–10 essays in one session)
Your grading rubric for the assignment
Student submissions (digital — copied from Canvas or email)
Time needed: 20 minutes to set up your feedback template; 3–4 min per essay ongoing
Cost: $20/month (Claude Pro is needed for multi-essay sessions; free tier works for single papers)

Personalized Assignment Feedback at Scale with Claude Pro

Step 1: Set up your feedback template once per assignment

Before your first grading session, create a reusable prompt template. Open a text file (Notepad, TextEdit, or Google Docs) and write your template:

Copy and paste this

You are helping me give feedback on student essays. Here is the grading rubric:

[RUBRIC]
[Paste your rubric here — criteria, point values, performance descriptors]
[/RUBRIC]

For each essay I share, give feedback in this format:
- One specific strength (1–2 sentences, reference something specific from the essay)
- Two specific improvements (2–3 sentences each, actionable, reference the rubric)
- Suggested score per criterion with brief justification
Tone: encouraging but honest. Do not give a final grade — I will assign that.

Save this template. You'll paste it at the start of each grading session.

Tools:ClaudeCanvaGoogle Docs