AI Grading Companion for STEM Exams
Reclaim your
evenings and weekends
Derives rubrics from your solutions. You refine, AI applies
Reads handwritten exams and drafts marks with colour-coded annotations
You review, adjust, and publish, always in control
Collaborate with AI: bring your expertise, skip the repetition
Gain insights into how your students think
Generate course reports and deep analytics in seconds
AEMS is an AI grading companion for STEM exams at universities. It reads handwritten exam papers, applies your rubric step by step, and drafts marks with colour-coded annotations. You review every grade before students see it. Built by a professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.
Every semester, the same bottleneck
Grading is the most time-consuming part of teaching, and the hardest to scale.
per paper, multiplied by hundreds of submissions every exam period
We drift as we grade, readjusting the baseline as we progress. Consistency suffers
By the time students receive feedback, they have already moved on to the next topic
Talented academics spending evenings and weekends on marking instead of research or teaching
Connect. Mark. Review. Publish.
AEMS connects directly to Canvas: no downloading, no uploading, no file juggling. Submissions come in, annotated feedback goes back. Go have coffee between steps 1 and 3.
Connect
Link your Canvas course. AEMS pulls submissions automatically, with no manual downloads and no file management.
AI Marks
Your companion reads each submission, applies your rubric step by step, and drafts marks with colour-coded annotations. Same criteria, every paper.
You Review
See proposed marks and annotations on the PDF. Accept, adjust, or override. Nothing reaches students without your sign-off.
Publish
Grades, annotations, and personalised feedback are sent back to Canvas automatically. Students see exactly where they earned or lost marks.
Built for how academics actually work
Not another ed-tech demo. A tool by a professor who has graded thousands of exams.
PDF-native
Works directly with your scanned exam papers. No special apps, no format gymnastics. Upload the PDF, get an annotated PDF back.
Rubric-driven consistency
Your marking scheme, applied identically to every submission. No more drift between the first exam and the last.
AI proposes, you decide
Every mark can be reviewed, adjusted, or overridden before students see it. You are always in charge. AEMS is the companion, not the examiner.
Native Canvas integration
Submissions flow in from Canvas, grades and comments flow back, all automatic. Students receive annotated feedback directly in their Canvas inbox. No file downloads, no uploads, no copy-paste.
Your choice of AI
Run open-source models locally via Ollama for a fully local inference path, or optionally connect a cloud provider like Anthropic, OpenAI, or Google. Switch anytime without changing your workflow.
Your data stays yours
Keep source PDFs local with the paired agent, use our EU-hosted team workflow, or deploy behind your firewall. Choose the handling model that matches your governance needs.
Student data privacy is not optional
AEMS was designed from day one for institutions that take data protection seriously.
Student submissions are never used to train AI models, backed by contractual guarantee
Keep source PDFs on your machine via the paired agent, or deploy on-premises behind your firewall
Every marking decision is logged, tamper-evident, and traceable for 7 years
Rubric-traced marks, override audit trails, and confidence scoring
Our fairness commitment →On-premises deployment keeps everything behind your firewall
Built for STEM. Works across disciplines.
AEMS is strongest where grading pain is worst: handwritten engineering, math, and physics exams with multi-step reasoning and partial credit. It also works for other subjects, but STEM is where it shines.
Individual Academics
“I mark 200 mechanics exams every semester by myself.”
Use the hosted AEMS app with a paired local agent. Connect your own API key or a local model. Source PDFs stay on your machine while grading orchestration runs through AEMS services.
Personal plan →
Departments & Teaching Teams
“We have 6 TAs marking 800 calculus submissions, and consistency is a constant fight.”
Use our hosted platform. Everyone marks against the same rubric, with shared calibration. Push grades to Canvas when the team is satisfied.
Department plan →
Universities & Institutions
“We need this across engineering faculties, behind our firewall, with full audit compliance.”
Deploy AEMS on your own infrastructure. You control the environment, the data, and the access policies. We provide the software and support.
Institutional plan →Ready to reclaim your evenings?
Your next exam period does not have to mean two weeks of late nights. See which plan fits, or try it on a sample exam today.