[hdctambien]

I completely understand. I teach AP Computer Science to about 100 students a year and I assign many Open Response questions which are solved by writing code by hand on paper. I grade these using the same rubric as the College Board which takes into account much more than "would it compile". For every hour of homework I assign my students, I assign myself double digit hours of grading.

Some AI + a pool of previously graded assignments could probably automatically pre-grade essays (or my open response questions) with comments and notations which would allow a teacher to skip the 100% correct papers, and focus on the hot-spots of the others. Automatically identifying plagiarism (via the internet and other students) would be a nice side effect, too.

Those kinds of solutions seem way more useful than Yet Another Gradebook/Attendance System or a Teacher->Parent Chat Room or even Distributed Tutoring Systems.