Overview
LetMeGrade is a quiet room for your grading: a grading console for instructors that doesn't need another login or subscription, and always stays on your device, for $20 CAD once.
I'm building this as a solo creative. It's currently in early MVP stages and planned for customer validation through a professional business program.
Role
Founder
Product Lead
Team
1x Founder (me)
Year
2026
Process
The Problem
87% is an A here and an A- there. Every school grades differently: the same 87% lands on an A at UBC and an A- at Emily Carr, and VFS has percentages. And every instructor grades across four places: paper notes, a spreadsheet, a gradesheet, a portal.
In 15 informal interviews, all 15 instructors called grading tedious and time-consuming. The tool has to adapt to them, not the other way round.
The Approach
Hierarchy for a hand full of notes. One student open at a time, score and state always visible, and rubric and scale swap without rebuilding anything.
Setup: start from one of seven starter rubrics, change a scale or weight, and grading adapts.
Quick jot: capture raw notes and quick scores during an in-class critique, while the class is still talking.
Send: each student's gradesheet PDF opens as a drafted email, ready to go.
What I left out
AI-assisted grading, a full teaching ecosystem, and subscriptions. AI helped build the product; the product has no AI feature.
Privacy first, on purpose
Nothing leaves the device. It has to beat the spreadsheet a person already trusts.
Grading scales
The same 87% lands on different letter grades at different schools
Setup
Pick a starter rubric, change a scale and weight; grading adapts
Quick jot
Crit notes and quick scores land against a student card mid-class
Send
Per-student gradesheet PDF opens as a drafted email
Courses
Switch and manage courses on your own terms
Outcome
LetMeGrade is live in beta: a working grading console that takes a course from rubric to emailed gradesheet, with nothing leaving the device.
In the beta
Course setup: seven starter rubrics, custom grading scales and weighted projects
Roster grading: one student open at a time, score and grade always visible
Focused mode: Quick jot for live crit notes, with provisional scores confirmed later
Structured feedback: Strength, Improvement and Suggestion lines per student
Gradesheets: per-student PDFs, drafted as emails
Import and export: roster import and spreadsheet export
Local-first: no login, no cloud; data stays on the device
Next steps
Customer validation: waiting to hear back on funding through Lab2Market Validate
New features: scanning handwritten crit notes, more rubric templates and theme packs
UX optimizations from beta feedback
Official licensing: $20 CAD once, with a 7-day trial and no account