Questions & Answers

Ezergrade™ is an audio-paced spelling assessment platform. You upload one word list and deliver it as a live synchronized class test, a self-paced test, a homework assignment, or a scannable paper test — and every result lands in one grade record. It's built for Grades 1–8 spelling.

No. Students join a live or self-paced test with a join code and their student number — no student logins, emails, or passwords. Only the teacher has an account.

Any modern browser on a computer, tablet, or phone — nothing to install. Teachers run the dashboard on a laptop; students join on whatever device they have. Paper mode needs no student devices at all.

Ezergrade is built for Grades 1–8 spelling. Younger students, including Kindergarten, can still be assessed through teacher-led audio dictation and paper mode — before they're ready to type their answers independently.

Yes. Connect your Google account to import a Google Classroom roster straight into an Ezergrade class, and after a test session ends, push each student's score back to Google Classroom as a graded coursework item.

Class Test (live, teacher-controlled, synchronized), Self-Paced (student controls playback while the teacher monitors), Homework (unsupervised, own device, with a deadline), and Paper (printed or read aloud, then scanned and graded). Same word list, same roster, same grade record for all four.

A pretest is an optional warm-up run before the real, scored test — same words, but the grade doesn't count. It lets students hear and try the list once so the scored session measures what they actually retained. The scored test is the official record; a linked pretest sits alongside it for reference.

A pretest happens before the scored test and isn't counted. A retake happens after a completed test — you re-run a session that's already finished, optionally in a different mode (for example, a student who missed the live test takes it as homework). Retakes are kept out of your history counts so they don't inflate totals, but the new result is still stored.

No. Homework mode is a formal assessment with a deadline and graded results, and Honest Input™ is active on every field. It's unsupervised and done on the student's own schedule, but it's a test — not open-ended practice. (Ezergrade tests spelling; it doesn't teach or drill it.)

Yes. The mode is chosen per class at assignment time, so the same test can run live in one class and as homework in another. You can also switch the mode later with Edit Test.

Grading is objective — the word is spelled correctly or it isn't. Ezergrade does an exact match against your word list. The capitalization rule: all-lowercase is accepted, a capitalized first letter is accepted, any other uppercase is marked wrong. Blank answers are flagged.

Honest Input™ disables autocorrect, autocomplete, autocapitalize, and spellcheck on every student answer field, so the browser can't silently fix a misspelling. You find out whether the student actually spelled the word.

No. Grading is a plain, objective string match — no AI decides right or wrong. AI-assisted features, like converting a photo of a curriculum list into a test, are separate and always optional.

You photograph or upload the completed sheets. Handwriting is read for you, confident answers are auto-graded by the same objective engine, and anything uncertain is surfaced in a “Needs a Look” queue with a crop of what the student wrote for you to confirm. Results land in the same grade record as every other mode.

Many ESA and microgrant programs allow supplemental educational software and assessment tools, and Ezergrade fits that category. Because each program — and each state — has its own approved-vendor list and rules, check with your specific program first. We're glad to provide an itemized receipt or invoice for reimbursement; email ezergrade@gmail.com.

We're happy to work with charter schools, PSPs, and umbrella programs on vendor onboarding. If your program needs a W-9, a quote, a purchase order, or specific documentation to add us, reach out to ezergrade@gmail.com and we'll help you through it.

Approval is program-by-program — there's no single national list. Rather than claim a blanket status, we'll provide whatever your co-op, charter, district, or funding program needs (receipts, invoices, tax forms, product descriptions) to complete approval or reimbursement. Just ask.

Yes. The Small School / Co-op plan covers up to 30 teacher logins and unlimited students under one school account. See the pricing page or email us and we'll work out what fits.

We're FERPA-conscious and collect only what a spelling test needs — a name and a student number. Students don't create accounts, and paper sheets are matched by student number, so you can fold or scan below the name line to keep names off the scan entirely. See our Privacy Policy and Student Privacy page.

A first name, last name, and a student number per class. No student emails, birthdays, or logins are required. Grade level is optional.

No. Student data is used to run tests and store grades for the teacher — nothing else. Our Privacy Policy and Student Privacy page spell out the details.

There are three plans: Homeschool (1 parent login, up to 10 students), Teacher (1 teacher login, up to 100 students), and Small School / Co-op (up to 30 teacher logins, unlimited students). Homeschool and Teacher can be billed monthly or annually — annual works out to two months free. Small School / Co-op is billed annually. See the pricing page for current prices.

Everyday testing — running tests in any mode, grading, records, CSV export — runs on your plan with nothing extra. A few optional features draw from credit balances: AI credits power the test generator (1 per test), student feedback (0.1 per student), and converting an uploaded word list into a test (0.25 per page). Scan credits power paper scan grading (1 per scanned page). Plans include AI credits, and top-up packs are available for both. Chat with Ezer is included at no credit cost.

Yes — the interactive demo runs a full live class-test simulation in your browser with no account. Ezergrade is currently in early access — join the waitlist to get access and launch pricing.