Covid-19 Distance Learning Alert:
During school closures, Quick Key’s online quiz and test platform for multiple-choice, open-response, and auto-graded short response & numerical questions is a great solution for easy remote assessment.
Q: Which is the best mobile grading app? Quick Key or ZipGrade?
A: It depends!
Quick Key and ZipGrade are both tools for getting rapid feedback in the classroom. Both of them can scan paper bubble sheets and give you an instant report on your mobile device by student or by question. Depending on your needs, you might choose one or the other.
ZipGrade is well known for having a very easy-to-use mobile bubble sheet scanner. Quick Key also scans bubble sheets with your phone or tablet but also does Chromebook, Web, and student mobile device quizzes, and has more support for open response and other question types.
Here’s a simple comparison chart to help you decide which is right for you:
Side by Side: ZipGrade and Quick Key
PRICING |
ZipGrade |
Quick Key |
| Free Version | Scan 100 quizzes before you have to pay | Scan (paper) or grade (digital quiz) 100 quizzes per month, forever |
| Paid Version for Teachers | Unlimited Scans | Unlimited scanning (bubble sheets) and grading (digital device quizzes) |
| Paid Version Price | $7.99 / year | $4.99/month or $30 / year (coupons available) |
| School / District Version | — | Yes, allows sharing quizzes and roll-up reports |
REPORTING |
ZipGrade |
Quick Key |
| Reports | nice looking PDFs & plan Excel reports | plain-looking Excel reports |
| Standards Alignment | Yes | Yes |
| Point Weighting | Yes | Yes |
QUESTION TYPES |
ZipGrade |
Quick Key |
| Multi-Select / Multi-Answer | Yes | Yes |
| Open Response | Graded using bubble sheet | Yes, graded online with student-typed answers or with bubble sheet |
| Auto-graded gridded response | — | Yes |
| Auto-Graded Short Answer | — | Yes, digital quizzes only |
QUIZ TYPES |
ZipGrade |
Quick Key |
| Scan bubble sheets with mobile device | Yes. | Yes. |
| Chromebook Quizzes | — | Yes |
| Chromebook Kiosk App | — | Yes |
| Student mobile quizzing | — | Yes |
ROSTERING |
ZipGrade |
Quick Key |
| Upload roster from spreadsheet | Yes | Yes |
| PowerSchool Rostering | — | Yes |
| Google Classroom Rostering | — | Yes |
OTHER BENEFITS |
ZipGrade |
Quick Key |
| Question Banking | — | Yes |
| Import Items & Quizzes from MS Word | Yes – Free for the first 3 quizzes | |
| Quiz Sharing | — | With School version |
| Roll-up Reporting | — | With School version |
SUPPORT |
ZipGrade |
Quick Key |
| Live in-app chat support | — | Yes |
| Phone Support | — | Yes |
| Email support turnaround time | hours – days | less than 1 hour 9-5 M-F |
