Work & OperationsDone with ChatGPT
Grade papers and build lesson plans for teachers
Author built a proof-of-concept app using ChatGPT prompt templates to grade papers, generate lesson plans, and give feedback.
- What They Did
- The author built a proof-of-concept app called Archimedes, described as a React and Flask app that used ChatGPT across school levels from elementary through doctorate. Its core mechanism was a prompt-engineering command harness that let ChatGPT read files into the prompt, then run templates for grading papers, generating lesson plans, and producing feedback; the human built the app and tested it on several papers.
- How It Went
- The author says the grading on several of their papers felt accurate and often more informative and critical than feedback they had received from professors. It was still only a proof of concept and was not deployed for others to try.
- Worth Knowing
- They say development had already cost about $20 in OpenAI API fees, which is why they had not stood the app up for public testing.
Try it yourself with ChatGPT
Build a simple app that takes a student paper and my rubric [rubric or criteria], then returns a suggested grade and written feedback by criterion. Add a second feature that generates a lesson plan from a [topic] and [grade level]. Use prompt templates I can edit, test with [2-3] sample papers, and show me the results before anything is final.