EdX, the consortium of universities, including Georgetown, that offers Massive Open Online Courses for free, introduced experimental software last week that uses artificial intelligence to grade and ...

Each week, Asst. Teaching Prof. Leslie Farris gives students in her Chemistry II class a quiz to make sure they’re grasping complex topics such as thermodynamics, kinetics and chemical equilibrium.

For many professors, grading student work is the least enjoyable part of their jobs. “None of us get into teaching to grade,” says Renée Link, a professor of teaching in the Chemistry Department at ...