For L&D teams

Consistent course quality, without depending on who built it.

Pedagrade is a second pair of eyes that catches what AI misses, on every course your team ships. It checks the instructional design and the accessibility content basics (alt text, captions, color, link text, sensory instructions), with other WCAG checks and usability in beta. It cites the principle, writes the fix, and coaches the designer, so good practice stops being personality-dependent.

The problem this solves

✕Quality varies by whoever built the course. Misaligned assessments, non-measurable objectives, and usability gaps reach production and reach learners.
✕Accessibility is hard to get right and hard to train. Even with repeated training, WCAG gaps slip through, exposing the organization to compliance risk and rework.
✕Senior reviewers are the bottleneck. Experienced designers and managers spend hours reviewing work and re-explaining the same principles.
✕Training doesn't stick. Designers know the theory but don't consistently apply it under deadline.

What each designer gets, in under a minute

They paste a course or a design document or storyboard (or upload it) and get back a guided report, the verdict first and then one fix at a time, that:

✓Maps every objective to where it's taught, practiced, and assessed, and flags the gaps: objectives nobody practices, questions that test the wrong level, and quiz items that serve no objective.
✓Grades it against the learning science (Bloom's, Mayer, Gagné, Merrill, and assessment alignment), and the tested accessibility basics (alt text, captions, color, link text, sensory instructions). Other WCAG checks, usability, plain language, UDL, ARCS, retrieval practice, and Kirkpatrick readiness are in beta. Or check it against your team’s own checklist or rubric.
✓Cites the principle behind every issue and writes the fix, so it teaches while it checks.
✓Ends with a practice plan: the habits that designer should build, so the lesson carries to their next course, not just this one.
✓Applies the approved fixes into a revised draft they can export.
✓For leads, Program review checks many courses at once, so you see where a whole program stands.

While they design: with While you design, a designer saves a course's objectives once and checks each lesson against them as they design it, right where they work: on the web, inside Claude or ChatGPT, or in Word and Google Docs, with a short list of what the course still needs next. Drift gets caught in lesson 3, not in the final review.

Every designer works to the same standard, so reviews get faster and the floor for quality goes up across the whole team.

Why it pays for itself

Fewer errors reach learners

Catch misalignment, accessibility, and usability issues before launch, not after a complaint or an audit.

Lower accessibility risk

Tested accessibility content checks on every course (alt text, captions, color, link text, sensory instructions), consistently, instead of hoping they were remembered. Other WCAG checks are in beta. Higher ed: Title II and your courses.

Less senior-review time

The tool handles the consistent, teachable checks; your experts spend their time on judgment, not catching the obvious.

Upskilling that sticks

The practice plan turns every review into targeted coaching, reducing the training burden and raising the whole team.

The math is simple. Pedagrade pays for itself if it saves each designer a few hours of rework and review, or prevents a single accessibility remediation, over a whole year. Team pricing depends on your team's size, so email todd@pedagrade.com and we'll work it out together.

Why not the tools you already have

Authoring tools (Articulate, etc.)

Build courses; they don't review the instructional design or catch the errors.

Accessibility scanners

See WCAG on a finished page, but nothing about whether it teaches.

Consultants / QM reviews

Thorough, but slow and costly, and you wait weeks for the result.

Generic AI checkers

Send your confidential course content to a third-party AI, and give generic advice.

Pedagrade

All of it, on private AI, in under a minute, self-serve, for every designer.

Safe for confidential material

Pedagrade runs its own private AI on hardware we own and control. Pedagrade never sends your course content to any outside AI company, and never uses it to train a model. If designers use Pedagrade inside ChatGPT or Claude, that chat lives in their own ChatGPT or Claude account, and Pedagrade only gets the text the assistant sends it. Reviews are saved only to that designer's own account, where they can delete them. Everything is over HTTPS. This is why it is safe for internal and proprietary content. A one-page summary for IT and security is at pedagrade.com/security.html.

Start with a low-risk pilot

Pick three to five designers, have them run their real design documents or storyboards for a week, and see the consistency and the issues caught for yourself. Team pricing depends on your team's size, for three or more designers. Higher education departments and universities get an annual contract. Email todd@pedagrade.com and we'll work out the price and set it up together.

Set up a team pilot

Or try it yourself first at pedagrade.com. Every new account starts with a free week of the Individual plan: full reviews, every fix, and checking while you design in Word and Google Docs, everywhere Pedagrade works. No card needed. After the week, a free account has one review (the score, the verdict, and the top 3 fixes) and 10 lesson checks in all, counting any you used during the week.