Playbook User Guide

Everything you need to master automated grading and class management.

1. Getting Started: Classes & Students

Playbook organizes your grading by classrooms. When you log in, start by creating a Class.

  • The Join Code: When you create a class, Playbook generates a unique 6-character code. Share this code with your students.
  • The Student Portal: Students visit the Playbook Student Portal, enter your Join Code, and are instantly enrolled in your class roster.
  • Course Materials: Inside your Class Details page, you can securely upload PDFs, syllabi, or reading notes that only enrolled students can download.

2. Three Ways to Grade

Playbook adapts to how you teach, supporting both paper exams and digital assignments.

Option A: Online Exams (Auto-Pilot Magic)

Go to your Class page and click Create Online Assignment. If you turn on Enable Auto-Pilot Grading (Instant Grading), the entire process runs invisibly in the cloud.

The Auto-Pilot Experience: You can literally close your laptop and go to sleep. When 1,200 students submit their homework, the AI grades them instantly in the background.

If you log into your Dashboard while they are submitting, you will see a live, real-time count of how many are 'Completed' versus how many are still 'Processing'. You can even begin reviewing the completed ones immediately while the rest finish in the background!

Late Submitters: If 139 students submit a day late, the Auto-Pilot instantly wakes back up, grades them, and seamlessly adds their scores to your Master Gradebook.

Option B: Online Exams (Manual Initiation)

If you create an Online Assignment but choose not to enable Auto-Pilot, students will still submit their work digitally, but the AI will wait for your command.

  • Once the deadline passes, you will see a Grade Submissions button next to the exam on your Dashboard.
  • Click it to manually start the AI grading loop for the entire class at once.

Option C: Scanned Paper Exams

If your students wrote their exams on physical paper, simply collect them, scan them all into a single bulk PDF, and click Upload Exams on the top navigation bar.

  • Playbook's Vision AI will automatically separate the students, read their handwriting, analyze their diagrams, and grade the papers against your rules.

3. The Smart Marking Scheme

Playbook grades exactly like a strict, unbiased human. It does not guess; it follows your rules. To do this, it needs a Marking Scheme.

You do not need to write complex code. Simply upload your raw PDF rubric, or paste your rules into the box, and click Auto-Format Scheme. Playbook will instantly rewrite your rules into the strict format it needs.

Exam Logic & Section Rules:
Playbook understands complex exam instructions. If you tell students to Answer only 2 questions in Section B, Playbook will grade all their answers, but it will automatically drop their lowest score in that section so they are never unfairly penalized or rewarded.

4. The Human-in-the-Loop Review

We believe AI should assist teachers, not replace them. Therefore, grades are never finalized without your approval.

After an exam is graded, it moves to the Review state. Here you can:

  • Read the student's original handwriting or digital text.
  • Read the AI's step-by-step logic for why it awarded points.
  • Read the personalized feedback generated for the student.
  • Override: Click any score to manually change it if you disagree with the AI.

Once you click "Approve All", the grades become official and the Analytics are generated.

5. The Master Gradebook & Coursework Compiler

At the end of the semester, you need to compile all grades to upload to your university portal. Playbook handles this bureaucratic math automatically.

  • Open your Class Details and click the Master Gradebook tab.
  • This is a live spreadsheet of every student and every exam they took all semester. If a student never submitted an assignment, their score will simply show as a blank dash (-).
  • Click Compile Final Coursework. You can select exactly which Tests, Quizzes, and Assignments to include.
  • You can apply advanced dropping rules like "Keep the best 2 out of 3 tests".
  • Playbook will calculate the final coursework score for every student, scale it (e.g., out of 40 marks), and generate a clean CSV file for you to upload directly to the university portal.

6. Analytics & Comprehensive Reports

Once an exam is fully graded, click View Analytics to see how your class performed.

  • The Grade Curve: A visual breakdown of A, B, C, D, and F distributions.
  • Item Analysis: This table shows exactly which questions caused the most failures, allowing you to identify concepts you need to re-teach in your next lecture.
  • Print Report: Click "Export PDF" to generate a beautiful, multi-page report containing the roster, the charts, and personalized student showcases to hand to your department head.