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SpeechGradebook Evaluation

Your time should matter as much as your feedback

A full-time public speaking load can mean more than a week spent grading. You still want students to leave with detailed, useful comments. SpeechGradebook drafts rubric scores and feedback for your review so you can return stronger notes faster and keep control of every official grade.

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Available through walkthroughs, pilots, and early-access conversations.

Infographic: 4 courses times 20 or more students times about 5 minutes per speech equals 80 or more recordings and over 6 hours of listening for one speech assignment

Built for the people who carry the course

You’re already committed to student growth. We help make the grading and assessment side more manageable.

Instructors

Move from recording to reviewed grade faster, without starting every comment from scratch.

Coordinators

Support more consistent rubric use across sections and teaching staff.

Basic Course Directors

Track student progress and learning outcomes across time, sections, and terms.

Departments

See outcome patterns for assessment conversations, not only individual grades.

What changes for you

Less time buried in the queue. The same high bar for feedback quality. Clearer visibility for your program.

A draft that saves you time

Run student recordings against your rubric. Get scores and comments ready for your review, not a blank page for every speech.

You stay in control

Edit scores, comments, and observations freely. Nothing becomes the official grade until you save it.

Progress you can show

Connect evaluations to learning outcomes so basic course directors and departments can track growth across sections and terms.

Learning outcomes tracking view
Track learning outcomes and progress across students and sections.
Public Speaking in a Global Context, fifth edition

Built by a public speaking educator

SpeechGradebook was created by Anna McClure, Ph.D., coauthor of Public Speaking in a Global Context (5th ed., Macmillan Learning), with years of experience teaching public speaking and related communication courses.

In those public speaking courses, student evaluations averaged 4.5/5 on feedback quality and classroom support.

“She provides beneficial feedback on our speeches so we can improve. She is very calm and encouraging.” Public speaking student

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How evaluation works

AI output is a starting point. You review and save the official grade.

1

Upload a recording

Upload audio or video for a speech or presentation.

Upload and evaluation setup
2

Select course, student, and rubric

Choose the course context and rubric for the evaluation.

Rubric setup
3

Review the draft evaluation

SpeechGradebook returns structured scores, comments, and timestamped observations.

Evaluation review
4

Edit and save the official grade

Adjust the draft as needed, then save the instructor-approved evaluation.

Timeline markers

Beyond one course section

  • Across sections: consistent rubric use across classes and instructors
  • Across instructors: compare performance patterns more clearly
  • Across programs: visibility into speech-related learning outcomes
Department view
Department view: cross-section visibility.

What Evaluation does and does not do

What it does

  • Rubric-based AI evaluation of student speeches
  • Instructor review and edit before saving official grades
  • Learning outcome and performance visibility over time
  • FERPA-oriented controls and consent-aware workflows

What it does not do

  • Replace instructor judgment or auto-save AI drafts as official grades
  • Claim FERPA certified or compliant status without formal review
  • Retrain the live production model in real time from your edits

See whether Evaluation fits your course or program

Try the live demo, or request pilot info for your department.

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For individual speakers, see SpeechGradebook Practice