An independent project, built for the grading stack.

Why Rubrica exists

Grading a hundred handwritten exams by hand is slow, and it is hard to grade the last exam in a stack exactly like the first.

Rubrica keeps the roster and the link to each student on the instructor's own computer, and sends answer pages under a random code. The instructor reviews the results and decides what goes to students.

Who built it

Created by Travis Fraser, who began building Rubrica while a Graduate Student Instructor at UC Berkeley Haas.

Rubrica is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by the University of California, Berkeley.

Where it stands

Rubrica is in a pilot. The current version, 0.1.10, was released in October 2026 for Apple Silicon Macs. A versioned report describing the software and its early validation is published on Zenodo, and a technical overview is at travisfraser.com/rubrica.