Point Pedagrade at a course and it reviews the instructional design against learning science — Bloom's, Mayer, Gagné, Merrill, and WCAG — then returns a scored, prioritized improvement plan that cites the principle behind every note and rewrites the fix for you.
I'm an instructional designer with 15 years of experience. I built Pedagrade to double-check my own work — because even after 15 years, when a deadline's looming, it's easy to miss a fuzzy objective, a quiz that doesn't match what we taught, a missing transcript, or a wall of text that should've been chunked.
It turned out useful enough that I cleaned it up and made it available. If you're an ID or on an L&D team and you'd find a rigorous second set of eyes helpful, it's here for you too.
— Todd K. Edwards, Instructional Designer
Three steps, right in your browser. Nothing to install, no API keys, no AI account to set up.
Paste a storyboard, script, or transcript — or upload a PDF, PowerPoint, or text file. Slide text and speaker notes are pulled in automatically.
A quick Draft pass for triage, or a deep Rigorous pass for the courses that matter. Each is anchored to the same learning-science rubric.
An overall score, per-framework scores, and findings ranked by learning impact — each with the principle cited and a concrete rewrite you can paste in.
Here's an actual finding from a Rigorous audit of a weak compliance module — the kind of thing it catches, with the principle cited and the fix written for you.
This module presents content but is badly misaligned: it opens with a non-measurable objective, then assesses only a trivia fact rather than the ability to recognize and report phishing.
Bloom's Taxonomy · Measurable, observable verbs — Anderson & Krathwohl (2001)
"Understand" and "be aware of" aren't observable or measurable, so neither the learner nor the designer can tell when the outcome has been met — which forces the quiz to drift toward whatever's easy to test.
RewriteBy the end of this module, you will be able to: (1) identify the warning signs of a phishing email in realistic examples, and (2) correctly report a suspicious email using your organization's reporting tool.
Open, established learning-science frameworks — no proprietary black box. Every finding tells you which principle it's drawing on and where it comes from.
Pedagrade runs its own private AI on hardware we own and control. Your course content is analyzed there to produce your audit, and it is never sent to OpenAI, Anthropic, or any other AI company. It is not stored beyond your session and is never used to train anything.
Your first audit is free, no account needed. After that, go Pro for unlimited audits. No API keys and no per-use AI fees, ever, because it runs on our own AI.
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