Gradescope Reviews

YES A this app APP I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS!!! Submitting my work is so much easier now 😁

Gradescope works as intended for uploading documents but I wish the devs would either steal someone else’s pdf scan api or improve their own, because scanning documents to submit on Gradescope takes at least 5 tries almost every time to get writing to be not burnt out but also not bleached off.

While definitely not perfect, Gradescope was simple to use and it didn’t give me issues and had its own (imperfect) scan system so I didn’t need to use another app. And it’s not trying to milk me for my money like most other scanning apps!

Normally I’d give it 4 stars due to the iPhone interface for iPad and the scanning taking a couple tries to get right, but I’m giving it 5 stars to counter the ridiculously low average rating Gradescope has.

Gradescope could be so useful, and in many ways (in principle), it should be. Being able to scan and directly upload to this app is a huge win. Unfortunately, Gradescope suffers from so many buggy issues and flawed design choices. Please fix these:

- You have to log in every time you open Gradescope . Every. Single. Time.
- Attempting to change or add to your submission COMPLETELY removes your scans.
- Scanning is relatively buggy
- You cannot view your actual this app submissions in Gradescope after submitting!! This is essential to this app itself!
- You can’t see how you assigned numbers to questions in Gradescope in an assignment. It displays all the numbers in one long line and, once again, requires you to use your browser to view.

Overall, Gradescope is just above the bare minimum. Please, fix the above issues and Gradescope will actually be one of the most helpful/useful apps for assignment submission.

Ideally this should be an amazing app that works just like the website. But unfortunately to do a lot of the main tasks it requires or redirects you to go to the website. And I think most people download Gradescope so they do not have to visit the website all the time. I hope the devs take this to consideration on their next update.
Other than this, it’s an amazing app and I like the recent updates.

I would expect Gradescope to keep you logged in especially if it’s on a personal device. Not the case for Montana State University (net ID) it logs you out every single time and redirects you to the schools website to log back in. It isn’t the quickest process and has almost cost me a few assignments that I was in a pinch on. Please fix this!

Requires you to log back in every time, which is very annoying. Also, when viewing a graded assignment, it’s not intuitive how to see where you lost points.

One positive is that it has a really good document scanning functionality.

I haven’t had login problems.

The scanning/add file option allows me to submit photos from my camera. It’s very quick; I love it.

Gradescope is well designed — I can access everything I need (which in reality isn’t that much).

My only complaint is I have to open this app from a browser to view graded submissions. Not having it in-app seems like missing critical functionality.

As an ME student at Purdue, submitting work is quick and takes 10 seconds. Must have app.

Why do I have to re-enter my school and user information every time I open Gradescope it’s so tedious and annoying

It never let me login on Gradescope . I would go through the steps and then it would take me back the opening page it has when you open Gradescope . The website is great but I wanted Gradescope for on the go and it was horrible and I couldn’t even use it.

this app itself is great, but Gradescope is so annoying to use. It doesn’t keep you signed in so I have to sign in every single time. And on the iPad app, it looks like it hasn’t been adapted for iPadOS.

Developers PLEASE fix these issues. With so many college students using this app these need to be changed.

Gradescope fails to expand to my tablets size. It has no zooming functionality. It makes me sign in every signgle time without even being able to search for my school. Inconvenience every time. Only people use Gradescope because they are forced to

The log in process is lengthy enough with university ONIT. I have to keep Gradescope open (and device unlocked!) or I am instantly logged out and need to redo the whole process. Very annoying and makes it very hard to submit assignments!!! :(

Seems only for portrait mode and will log you out every time you close Gradescope . Better to just have this app online and was hoping for a way to export files directly to this app from note-taking apps but have to download them first.

Sadly I am forced to use Gradescope for school. Every time I have to use it I have to sign in again. That is if I want to check my grade or submit an assignment which I do several times a week. Gradescope is untested and half functional.

The iPhone version does not work well on the iPad! Especially annoying if you’d like to upload a PDF from a note taking app.

You have to sign in every single time you open Gradescope and viewing feedback will just take you to an error screen. App is almost completely useless.

Please just remember my login info. Use Face ID or something. It takes so long to select the school and enter my login each time I just want a quick check of my grades.

The inbuilt scanner is amazing but the design where I have to login through my school portal every time I close Gradescope is not very user friendly.

I tried to sign into the mobile app using my college account and everything, but I can’t even get past the sign in screen. Every time I enter my credentials it just takes me back to the sign in screen. Quite literally a useless app.

Lots of students use iPads now, the iPhone version is inadequate. It surely can’t be that hard to slightly adjust the UI and it’s scaling to work on iPads. I just got Gradescope though and will update with more use.

this app already had a decently functional mobile web version. But, the most annoying part of using it was having to re-select my school and log in every single time. Gradescope DOESN’T FIX THAT! If you have Gradescope closed for more than a few minutes, it logs you out completely (it can’t even remember your school).

I recognize some of this could be institutional policy out of this app’s control, but there’s no reason Gradescope can’t remember the school I use to log in and use native iOS auth components (i.e. ASWebAuthenticationSession) to correctly and securely access password auto fill and WebAuthn/Passkeys for institutional login. Otherwise, what’s the point of having an app at all?

Why do I have to log in eat time? It doesn’t even save the school for me.

The actual UI isn't bad and Gradescope is far easier to use than scanning a pdf and uploading on a PC, but the biggest issue with Gradescope is that you end up going through numerous different login portals every time you open Gradescope .

If I want to submit an assignment, I need to first select what school I am attending in a super long list of schools, then I have to log in through my schools portal, and sometimes I get a 2FA prompt on top of that. Occasionally it just doesn't even work and I have to start from square one. Now this might be mildly annoying but it's really exacerbated by the fact that every time I need to upload an assignment I have to go through this process again. After spending several hours on an assignment it's so frustrating to have to browse through several menus just to upload a PDF.

I get it's probably for security but I don't need NSA level protection for my PDF uploader. If someone really wanted to hack into my account and upload my homework for me so be it. If this issue was resolved I'd instantly give Gradescope five stars because otherwise it's a great application.

Doesn’t remember sign in, this happens on pc too, what a STUPID FEATURE. My uni also has 2FA so signing into this garbage program always takes 10 years. It also cannot even show you questions on Gradescope and redirects you to your web browser if you try (seriously, why even have a mobile app?) this program is an embarrassment and it blows my mind that my university even uses it. Trash.

The web version works fine, but somehow the mobile version doesn't even have my school. I go to NYU, not a small school by any means.

This does not work on my ipad.
Simply useless for me to only be able to grade on my desktop.

I love this app 😍

As far as I can tell the biggest motive to get this is to directly upload work to this app without using an intermediary like adobe scan, but unfortunately the scanning functionality is very poor. It gets out of focus easily and there is no good way to make it refocus so it just stays out of focus until it wanders back into focus. It is also bad at picking up writing in various lighting conditions, so as far as I can tell Gradescope is just a waste of time.

You can’t do anything. You can’t submit regrades, view incorrect problems/feedback, all you can do is see that something is graded or not. Why even have an app? It also does not remember the sign in details so you have to enter the school and login manually every single time. Pretty poor development, but then again education doesn’t get the funding it deserves does it?

Gradescope is unusable. It knows what school I go to, yet when I’m logging in, it makes me find my school from a list of every school that uses their service. It also apparently unable to remember my login info. I also can’t upload a lot of my assignments on Gradescope and have to use the web version. Would rate 0 stars if possible.

Making you log in every time you open Gradescope is so annoying. It also needs to do a better job of sending notifications before the assignment is do. Canvas is better and I don’t know why people us this.

it logs you out every single time you use Gradescope . then you need to navigate through 8 different portals. i’ve had some wi-fi issues before, and it took me 30 MINUTES to log in. that is unacceptable.