Work & OperationsDone with Claude Cowork Jul 5, 2026
Grade papers and build lessons with Claude Cowork
A teacher says Claude Cowork saved hours on curriculum design, grading papers, making PowerPoints, and analyzing student grades.
- What They Did
- The teacher set up separate Claude Projects for each curriculum, such as GCSE and A-levels, then loaded them with exam-board materials including specifications, past papers, exemplars, lesson plans, PowerPoints, and other class files in a folder Cowork could use. For grading, they scanned student work with names removed, labeled each paper only with a number, and had Claude read it against a mark scheme and exemplars to produce personalized feedback.
- How It Went
- They say Cowork saved them hours across curriculum design, grading, PowerPoints, grade analysis, and differentiation work, and even gave teaching-strategy tips after they uploaded best-practice documents. The main shortcoming discussed was privacy risk, which they addressed by anonymizing student data before upload.
- Worth Knowing
- One catch: getting Cowork running on a new Windows PC took them about half a day because VM and hypervisor settings were turned off.
Try it yourself with Claude Cowork
I teach [grade/subject]. Look at the folder [path to folder] containing [student papers / grade spreadsheet]. Grade the papers against this rubric: [paste rubric or criteria], leaving short written feedback on each, and put the scores in a new spreadsheet with a summary of class-wide trends. Then draft a [number]-slide PowerPoint reviewing the most common mistakes. Stop when the spreadsheet and slides are saved, and don't edit or overwrite my original files.