The CoGrader Admin Platform gives school and district leaders a central place to manage their CoGrader implementation, support teachers, maintain shared rubrics, and understand student performance across classrooms.

The goal is not simply to show how often CoGrader is being used. The Admin Platform helps instructional leaders answer more meaningful questions: Where are students succeeding? Where do they need additional support? Are there patterns across classes or teachers? What can we learn from the writing students are already doing?

This guide walks through the main tools available to School and District Administrators.

If you have been given School Administrator or District Administrator access, you can switch between your regular teacher experience and the administrative tools available to your organization.

Being made an administrator does not remove your teacher access. If you teach classes yourself, you can continue using CoGrader as a teacher while also accessing the administrative features.

From the Admin Platform, you can access tools for:

The Manage Teachers area gives administrators one place to see who has been set up in CoGrader and add additional members of their team.

You can add teachers individually or invite multiple teachers at once.

For a bulk invitation:

If you only need to add a few people, select Add teachers one at a time instead.

Teachers can also be given administrative access. This does not replace their teacher account or remove their ability to grade.

An administrator who is also a teacher can toggle between the teacher and administrator experiences, allowing them to continue working with their own classes while helping manage CoGrader for the school.

This can be useful for instructional coaches, department chairs, curriculum leaders, or other staff members who need visibility beyond their own classes.

The View as Teacher feature allows administrators to see CoGrader from a specific teacher's perspective.

Search for a teacher by name or email and select View as.

You will then see CoGrader as that teacher sees it, including their classes and assignments.

This experience is read-only. You can review what the teacher sees, but you cannot take actions on their behalf.

This is useful when:

When you are finished, select Exit to return to your administrator account.

Administrators can create shared rubrics so teachers do not have to recreate common grading criteria individually.

From the Admin Platform, open School & District Rubrics.

Depending on your role, rubrics can be made available to your school, your entire district, or specific schools within a district.

You can create a rubric in several ways:

Once published, teachers can find shared rubrics under My rubrics and answer keys.

School and district rubrics are labeled so teachers can distinguish them from rubrics they created themselves. Teachers can use these shared rubrics when grading, while the administrator maintains the original rubric.

This makes it easier to establish consistent grading expectations across multiple teachers, classes, or schools.

For detailed instructions, see:
​How to Create and Manage School and District Rubrics in CoGrader

The Analytics area helps administrators move beyond individual assignments and identify patterns in student performance across their organization.

Rather than focusing primarily on usage statistics, CoGrader Analytics is designed around instructional and curriculum insights.

School administrators can filter their data by teacher, class, and date range. District administrators can view performance across schools and filter the data available at the district level.

The Analytics area is divided into several views:

Overview, Performance, Patterns, Teachers, and Compare.

You can also use Download to export the available analytics data.

The Overview gives administrators a high-level picture of the grading taking place across their organization.

At the top, you can see totals such as:

The overview also begins surfacing performance information so administrators can quickly understand the scope of the data being analyzed.

Use the filters at the top of the page when you want to focus on a particular teacher, class, or period of time.

The Performance tab helps administrators understand where student scores are landing and how students are performing across skills.

The score distribution shows how submissions are distributed across grade ranges and provides an overall score average.

This gives administrators a quick way to see whether scores are clustering within a particular range and investigate the students, classes, or assignments behind those results.

CoGrader also groups similar rubric criteria into broader skills, even when teachers are using different rubrics.

This makes it possible to look across assignments and identify areas where students may need reteaching or enrichment.

For example, administrators may see skill areas such as:

Skills are organized into performance bands so administrators can see the percentage of grading results falling into Reteaching, Middle, and Enrichment ranges.

This helps turn grading data into curriculum conversations. Instead of only seeing an overall score, leaders can identify the specific writing skills where students are succeeding or need more support.

The Patterns tab surfaces trends that stand out across the school.

CoGrader organizes these findings into two primary areas:

These are skills or behaviors students are demonstrating successfully across assignments.

Examples might include:

These highlight recurring opportunities for additional instruction.

Examples might include:

CoGrader also shows how frequently each pattern appeared and across how many assignments.

This helps administrators distinguish between something that appeared in one assignment and a broader pattern occurring across multiple classrooms or assignments.

Aggregate data is useful, but administrators also need to understand where that data is coming from.

The Teachers area lets you explore results by:

When grouped by teacher, you can see information such as the number of classes, assignments, and submissions graded for each teacher.

Switch to Class to see which teacher owns each class along with its assignments and graded submissions.

Switch to Assignment to drill down further and see the teacher, class, and number of submissions associated with individual assignments.

This allows administrators to move from a school-wide trend to the classrooms and assignments contributing to it.

The Compare option allows administrators to examine performance across different parts of their organization.

Combined with the available teacher, class, school, and date filters, this can help leaders investigate differences and similarities in student performance rather than relying only on school-wide averages.

Analytics can be narrowed using the filters at the top of the page.

For a School Administrator, these may include:

District-level administrators have filters appropriate to their district view, including the ability to examine individual schools.

Filters are useful when you want to answer more specific questions, such as how a particular class is performing or what the data looks like during a particular period.

Select Clear filters to return to the broader view.

The Admin Platform is designed to help schools turn grading data into instructional decisions.

For example, an administrator might notice that Evidence & Support is performing well across the school while Thesis & Claim frequently falls into the reteaching range. They can then use the Patterns view to investigate the specific behaviors students are struggling with and the Teachers view to understand which classes and assignments are contributing to the trend.

From there, the school might decide to:

The goal is to connect the work teachers are already grading with information that can help leaders make better instructional decisions.

A good starting workflow for a new administrator is:

As more student work is graded in CoGrader, the Admin Platform gives you a broader picture of student writing performance and the instructional patterns emerging across your organization.