London, England.

Inspera, a leading provider of digital assessment solutions, is excited to announce the strategic acquisition of Graide, the sector-leading classification AI-assisted marking and feedback platform.

Educators worldwide face a common challenge: providing high quality, tailored feedback to students, while balancing grading, increasing student numbers and cohort sizes. Integration of Graide into Inspera’s product suite addresses this directly, improving efficiency, consistency and delivering a clear ROI by reducing workloads by up to 90% enabling educators to spend more time on meaningful student interactions.

Educators and students want humans, not machines, to produce rich feedback and determine grades, not generative AI. Graide is the only AI marking platform built on a classification AI model rather than generative AI, importantly keeping the human marker in control. Key benefits of Graide include:

  • Grading consistency and fairness – maintains strict parity across all submissions in an assessment, ensuring equivalent student outputs yield the same grading outcomes
  • Feedback consistency and alignment – standardises educator insights across an entire assessment, ensuring equivalent student points trigger the same, rich feedback, in a fraction of the time it would ordinarily take
  • No automatic grading – every AI suggestion must be accepted or rejected by an educator
  • Full accountability – educators can override any AI-suggested grade at any point
  • Built-in moderation – a second reviewer can check marked work before it is released to students
  • Institution specific – the AI model is trained exclusively on the institution’s own marked data, reflecting its marking standards and not the biases of an external model
  • Explainable decisions – every suggestion traces back to specific features in the student’s response, making it transparent and challengeable
  • Complete audit trail – every action in the platform is logged with a timestamp and user ID

Integrating Graide’s classification AI into Inspera’s digital assessment suite enhances efficiency, fairness, and the student experience. Graide’s LMS tool will now feature Inspera Originality for integrated similarity reporting, while deep integration with Inspera Assessment combines flexible grading workflows with AI-assisted feedback. This synergy allows institutions to operationalise complex grading logic while maintaining the power of classification AI to deliver authentic, secure, and fair assessments.

Commenting on the acquisition, Michael Ioakimides, Executive Chairman said “At Inspera, we have always focused on quality and the efficiency of the academic workflow. We understand that effective grading and student feedback depend entirely on the expertise of skilled educators, backed by processes that are accountable and transparent. Classification AI enables the human’s best work to be replicated in the right places, instead of requiring them to devolve an essential part of their role and skill to a large language model that is untraceable or unauditable. Even when a human reviews an AI-generated output, that is not a human in the loop, but a human endorsing an unaccountable black box. For something as mission critical as grading and feedback, that distinction matters enormously. We recognised there is a place for AI in grading and generating feedback, but wanted to integrate a market leading capability that made expert human inputs more efficient instead of outsourcing them to a large language model. Acquiring Graide was therefore the natural choice”.

Anthony Brockley, Chief Revenue Officer, added “We are delighted to welcome Graide’s customers into the Inspera community and are committed to supporting them fully through the transition. This integration ensures educators can save time and provide the best possible feedback to students. Improving the quality of assessment delivery and feedback, for both students and educators, is core to our mission at Inspera. Graide is a natural extension of that commitment“.

Manjinder Kainth, Graide CEO, commented: “We are excited to join Inspera and take our AI grading and feedback technology to new heights. Graide will fit seamlessly into the Inspera Assessment platform, or function as a standalone tool for use within an LMS, ensuring that educators are able to save time, mark efficiently, and provide the best possible feedback to students all within their regular workflow. Customers who are using Graide as a standalone tool may continue to do so, and current Inspera Assessment and Originality customers will have the opportunity to make use of Graide’s capabilities”.

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About Inspera

Inspera is a global, end-to-end, cloud-based assessment and academic integrity platform focused on putting pedagogy before technology, because assessment should drive learning and not simply measure it. Through a suite of products that seamlessly integrate together, and with your LMS, our community of assessment specialists, educators, and engineers understand Higher Education and are focused on helping enable institutions to enhance, innovate and operationalise their assessments for the benefit of their students.

Founded in 1999, Inspera’s worldwide customer base of Higher Education institutions and Awarding Bodies spans over 160 countries and in excess of 20 million submissions per year.

About Graide

Graide is a classification AI grading and feedback platform designed with educators in mind. Its user-friendly, intuitive platform adapts to your grading preferences, learning from your feedback to increase accuracy and efficiency. By reducing grading workload by up to 90%, Graide enables instructors to spend more time on meaningful interactions with their students.