What is in the free plan
What you get, where the edges are, and what is never rationed.
The free plan is the whole grading workflow, not a trial of it. You create assignments, build rubrics, upload scans, grade, and get results to your students, for as long as you like. What the free plan puts limits on is size and AI, not capability.
The limits
| Free plan | |
|---|---|
| Active courses | 3 at a time |
| Assignments per course | 15 |
| Students per course | 50 |
| Pages per assignment template | 20 |
Active is the operative word for courses. When a term ends, archive the course and the slot frees up for the next one. Archiving does not delete anything: the grades, rubrics, and feedback all stay where they are.
What is never rationed
This matters more than the table. The following have no limit at all on the free plan, no matter how much you use them:
- Grading. Applying rubric items, writing comments, annotating pages, grouping answers.
- Exporting. CSV of the whole class, as often as you want. See Exporting grades to CSV.
- Sharing. Sending students their graded work. See Sharing graded work with students.
- Reading names in your browser. The local text recognition used when splitting a scanned stack. See Bulk scans and automatic matching.
What is metered
AI assist is metered monthly. It covers the optional AI features: rebuilding a rubric from a PDF, drafting feedback, analyzing methods across a class, and reading scanned pages with AI. None of it runs unless you ask it to, and the rest of InteGrade keeps working normally when the allowance runs out. See AI assist and its limits.
One thing to know about scans
Scanned submission PDFs are not kept forever on the free plan. The grades, rubric items, and comments are; it is the page images that are eventually removed. Read How long your scans are kept before you rely on InteGrade as an archive.
If you need more
The full version lifts the limits above and adds Canvas integration, student accounts, and department-wide tools. See Upgrading to the full version.