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Gradescope

Gradescope (stylized as gradescope) is an American ed-tech company that offers online and AI-assisted grading tools for higher education. Founded in 2014, the company is headquartered in Berkeley, California. The company's grading software offers tools for grading written exams, homework assignments, and auto-grading submitted code. As of the 2020 school year Gradescope stated that over "25,000 educators" used their product. In 2018, Gradescope announced it was being purchased by Turnitin for an undisclosed sum. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic and many students taking classes from home, Gradescope released a LockDown Browser that prevented a user's device from visiting other sites while taking an online exam. The feature, though still in beta, was made available to academic institutions with an institutional site license on a request-only basis.

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Gradescope (stylized as gradescope) is an American ed-tech company that offers online and AI-assisted grading tools for higher education. Founded in 2014, the company is headquartered in Berkeley, California. The company's grading software offers tools for grading written exams, homework assignments, and auto-grading submitted code. As of the 2020 school year Gradescope stated that over "25,000 educators" used their product. In 2018, Gradescope announced it was being purchased by Turnitin for an undisclosed sum. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic and many students taking classes from home, Gradescope released a LockDown Browser that prevented a user's device from visiting other sites while taking an online exam. The feature, though still in beta, was made available to academic institutions with an institutional site license on a request-only basis.

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  1. date of foundation: 2014 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

Discussion questions

  1. Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
  2. The record states that the date of foundation is "2014". What evidence would count against this claim?
  3. Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
  4. If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?

Bibliography

  1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376118485

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