6 Million Submissions Graded with BusyBee, About 150,000 Teacher Hours Returned

6 Million Submissions Graded with BusyBee, About 150,000 Teacher Hours Returned

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Teachers graded the 6 millionth K-12 student submission with BusyBee, the AI assistant built into the Buzz platform, on September 2, 2026. At about 90 seconds saved per submission, that adds up to roughly 150,000 hours of grading time returned to teachers.

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We announced the milestone today on PR Newswire.

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The numbers

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• 6 million K-12 student submissions graded with BusyBee as of September 2, 2026.
• About 150,000 hours returned to teachers. This is an estimate: 6 million submissions multiplied by about 90 seconds saved on each.
• About 1 million submissions a month, the current pace. We expect the seventh million within weeks.
• 29% and 84%. In a sample of more than 2.5 million Buzz submissions over the past two weeks, 29% of those graded without BusyBee received a written comment. Of those graded with BusyBee, 84% received one.

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Comment rates with and without BusyBee

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Both groups in that sample were graded during the same two weeks on the same platform. It is a side-by-side observation from one platform, not a controlled study.

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Brad Marshall, our President and COO, reads the 29% as evidence that teachers already want to comment on student work but lack the time to comment on every submission. BusyBee writes the first draft of the comment, so the teacher's task shifts from writing each comment to reviewing and editing one.

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A teacher reviews every draft

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BusyBee reads the teacher's rubric and the student's work inside Buzz, then returns a draft score and a draft comment. BusyBee never posts a grade. A teacher approves, edits or discards every draft before a student sees anything.

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"The part that matters to me is a kid opening a returned assignment and finding a comment about their thinking, written by a teacher who had time to give it," said Brad Marshall.

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Where BusyBee runs

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BusyBee runs on Amazon Bedrock from Amazon Web Services (AWS). Student data stays inside AWS security and privacy controls, and Buzz can deploy in any AWS Region, including an in-country Region where AWS operates one. Agilix Labs holds the AWS AI Software Certification (formerly the AWS Generative AI Competency).

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"Systems with hundreds of thousands of teachers are asking whether a teacher can still review every draft at their scale," said Curt Allen, our CEO.

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At the current pace, that means about a million BusyBee drafts a month, and a teacher reviews each one before it reaches a student.

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Availability

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BusyBee is available to all Buzz platform customers and partners. Agilix Labs is an AWS ISV Accelerate member and is available on AWS Marketplace. Since 2000, Agilix partners have delivered more than 55 million enrollments to students in more than 200 countries and territories.

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Read the full announcement on PR Newswire, or learn more about BusyBee.

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