EvalIA
EvalIA is an AI assessment assistant built by a teacher for secondary and higher education. It creates competency rubrics, grades handwritten papers by OCR and plans remediation, following the official curricula of France, French-speaking Belgium and Morocco.
What is EvalIA?
EvalIA is a web application that assists teachers across the whole assessment cycle. It is published by Thomas Cavil, a French biology teacher holding the agrégation, with more than twenty years in the classroom. The site claims 800+ registered teachers, 40+ exercise types, 15+ subjects and full GDPR compliance.
Its governing idea is what the publisher calls double correction. The AI reads the paper first, applying the teacher's own rubric with the same consistency from the first script to the last, without fatigue or ordering effects; the teacher reads second, adjusts and sets the mark. The argument is grounded explicitly in docimology research going back to 1936. When the model is unsure about a passage, it abstains and raises a to be checked flag rather than inventing an answer.
The scope is wider than marking. Modules cover annual progression planning, the Atelier (also called TeacherStudio) for conversational creation of subjects, exercises, worksheets and sequences, AI grading, interactive exercises, differentiated work plans inspired by Freinet pedagogy with three tracks, remediation, a student portfolio, configurable student chatbots, a conversational agent for the teacher, subject monitoring and report-card comments.
Technically it runs on Google's Gemini family through Vertex AI: Gemini 2.5 Flash in europe-west1 (Belgium) for the Atelier, the chatbots and fallback; Gemini 3.7 Flash in the EU multi-region for corrections, rubrics and exercises; Gemini 3.1 Flash Image on a global endpoint for visuals, with no personal data; a self-hosted LaMa model for inpainting; and Text Embedding 004 for retrieval. Processing is declared deterministic, at temperature 0 with seed 42. A triple RAG system draws on official curricula from the Bulletin Officiel, a bank of 900+ past-paper exercises, and the teacher's own sources.
Geographically the tool is deliberately narrow: France with 15 subjects, French-speaking Belgium with 8 native FWB subjects and 213 curriculum extracts, Morocco with 4 BIOF subjects and 125 extracts. Tunisia, Senegal and Ivory Coast are announced. Students never create an account; they open the work through a secure link and a code, their first names encrypted zero-knowledge. The publisher describes his business model as transitional, saying he aims to be funded by schools and education authorities rather than by individual teachers.
What it does
- Grade handwritten papers automatically, with OCR, multiple-choice detection and diagram analysis
- Generate a competency-based rubric (D/A/PA/NA) from a subject supplied as PDF, Word or a photo
- Collect papers directly, through a secure online drop-box the students use themselves
- Create subjects, exercises, worksheets and teaching sequences by conversation in the Atelier
- Publish more than 40 types of interactive exercise, handed out by link and code
- Build and steer a full-year progression laid out on the school's real calendar
- Produce a targeted remediation path for each student once the marking is done
When to use EvalIA / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if EvalIA is the right fit.
When to use EvalIA
- Secondary and higher education teachers in France, French-speaking Belgium and Morocco who mark batches of handwritten papers
- Science teachers first of all, since biology, physics-chemistry and mathematics carry the largest indexed exercise banks (524, 247 and 282 exercises)
- Teachers who assess by competency (D/A/PA/NA), including those who work without a numerical mark
- Teachers supporting students with special educational needs: PAP, PPS, dyslexia, ADHD or newly arrived pupils
- Teachers whose school applies strict GDPR requirements and expects a documented file, since a free school kit is provided
When not to use EvalIA
- Primary school teachers: the stated target is secondary and higher education
- Teachers outside France, French-speaking Belgium and Morocco, as only these three sets of official curricula are built in
- Non-French-speaking teachers: the interface is entirely in French and sign-up runs through national institutional email addresses
- Teachers of physical education, visual arts or music, subjects still announced as coming
- Anyone wanting a public API to plug grading into their own system, or a native mobile app: the product is web only
How to use EvalIA
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Create a free account with a recognised institutional address: @ac-*.fr, @educagri.fr or @aefe.fr in France; @ens.cfwb.be, @wbe.be, @segec.be, @enseignement.catholique.be, @cecp.be, @cpeons.be, @felsi.eu or a .be school address in Belgium; @taalim.ma in Morocco. No bank card is asked for
- Pick your country and your subject, then build a first rubric in under two minutes according to the site
- Plan the year: place your chapters on the school's real periods, holidays and outings included, starting from the official curriculum or from an outline you import
- Design the sequence: the Atelier builds the lessons and activities, and curriculum coverage is audited at the end
- Hand out the work: lesson sheets, student sheets, gap-fill versions, interactive exercises and slide decks, all published by link and opened without an account
- Build the rubric: import the subject as PDF, Word or a photo, let the AI propose a competency-based rubric, then adjust it
- Collect the papers: scan them yourself, or let the students upload them online through the secure drop-box
- Let the AI mark: it reads the handwriting, detects multiple-choice answers and diagrams, and pre-assesses each competency
- Review and finalise: annotate with the pencil, the stamps or comments, adjust the pre-assessment and set the mark yourself
- Remediate and share: build needs-based groups for the class and an individual exercise path, then export each marked paper to PDF and share it with the student by link and personal code
Pros & Cons
Pros
- One tool for the whole teaching chain, from planning and creation to assessment, marking, remediation and tracking, where the publisher's own comparison places rival products on narrower scopes
- National curricula built in country by country rather than translated: 15 subjects in France, 8 native FWB subjects, 4 BIOF subjects
- Legal documentation that is unusually complete and dated: terms v2.6, privacy policy v3.5, an Article 28 DPA published in full, a DPIA on request and a free kit for the head teacher
- Hosting and AI processing inside the European Union, zero-knowledge encryption of student names, and masking of the paper header before anything reaches the model
- No cookies, no trackers, no data resale
- The teacher keeps the last word: the AI pre-assesses, the teacher sets the mark, and uncertain passages are flagged rather than invented
- A permanent free plan, extra free credits in exchange for user feedback, an Ambassador programme granting full access, and students who need neither account nor email address
Cons
- A one-man publisher operating as a French sole trader, with service continuity and the ability to absorb an education-authority-wide rollout unproven, and a business model he himself calls transitional, which leaves future pricing uncertain
- No public API, no mobile application and no school information-system connector other than Pronote
- Coverage limited to three countries, with Tunisia, Senegal and Ivory Coast only announced, a French-only interface, and sign-up conditional on a national institutional address
- Free-plan quotas explicitly calibrated for trying the tool rather than for regular classroom use, and a /quotas pricing page rendered client-side, so the amounts are legible only inside the terms of sale
- No RGAA accessibility audit, with limits the publisher lists himself: insufficient contrast, dynamic updates not announced to screen readers, untagged PDFs
- Named exits from the EU perimeter: image generation on a global Vertex AI endpoint, subscription data of non-French subscribers handled by Lemon Squeezy in the United States, and development data occasionally exposed to Anthropic during maintenance, with no security certification of the publisher's own (only subprocessors hold any)
- The site contradicts itself on scope: the teacher guide speaks of 9 available subjects where the subjects page and the legal notice announce 15 for France
Pricing & Plans
EvalIA operates on a freemium basis. A permanent free plan named Essayer is available and requires no bank card at sign-up. Four paid plans follow, the cheapest entry point being 17.90 EUR per month (Le Créateur and L'Interactif), with Le Correcteur at 19.90 EUR per month and Le Complet at 39.90 EUR per month; an Établissement offer for schools is quoted on request. Subscriptions carry no commitment, may be cancelled in one click and are debited monthly on the anniversary date. Subscribers in France buy directly from the publisher at net prices, VAT not being applicable under Article 293 B of the French tax code, while subscribers outside France go through Lemon Squeezy as merchant of record, with prices displayed tax included. There is no usage surcharge: AI calls are borne by the publisher within the subscription. A 14-day right of withdrawal applies, with a refund net of the credits actually consumed, so a subscriber who has consumed nothing is refunded in full, and the current month may be refunded if an outage prevents use for more than 72 consecutive hours. Price changes are notified by email 30 days in advance. These amounts were read in the terms of sale, section 15.2 of the legal notice: the /quotas page returns no price in its static HTML.
- free
- every feature is open from sign-up
- with monthly quotas calibrated for discovery (a few papers
- a few rubrics
- a few exercises)
- 19.90 EUR per month
- the marking profile
- covering corrections
- rubrics and report-card comments
- 17.90 EUR per month
- the creation profile
- covering the Atelier
- AI images and sources
- 17.90 EUR per month
- the engagement profile
- covering student chatbots and interactive exercises
- 39.90 EUR per month
- all features
- price on request
- multiple accounts
- tailored quotas and onboarding support
- a monthly allowance per category
- one credit per action
- renewed every 30 days from the sign-up date. On paid plans
- unused image
- correction
- Atelier-session and interactive-exercise credits roll over to the following month
- capped at twice the monthly limit and expiring after three months of inactivity
- the other categories do not roll over. Plans can be changed at any time
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how EvalIA handles your data.
GDPR overview
GDPR implementation is unusually concrete here. Three dated documents are published in full: legal notice and terms v2.6 (23 August 2026), privacy policy v3.5 (28 August 2026) and a signable Article 28 data processing agreement v1.2. Seven rights are named explicitly (Articles 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21 and 7), exercised by email with a 72-hour response commitment and a link to the French CNIL; breaches are notified within 24 hours to the controller and 72 hours to the regulator. A free school kit bundles a note for the head teacher, a pre-filled DPIA, a register entry, a family notice and an FRIA template; the publisher's own DPIA v2.8 is available on request. He declares himself a provider under the EU AI Act and is preparing the high-risk obligations expected in December 2027. Established in France, he appoints no Article 27 representative.
Who owns the data?
Ownership depends on who signs up. For individual (B2C) use, Thomas Cavil is the data controller; when a school subscribes (B2B), the school becomes the controller and the publisher acts as an Article 28 processor. Content stays with the teacher: the legal notice states that rubrics created by users remain their intellectual property. Student first names are encrypted end to end in the browser (AES-256-GCM, PBKDF2-SHA256, 310,000 iterations), so the server cannot read them, and the 12-word recovery key is generated locally and never transmitted. Students hold no account: they get in through a link, a code and their first name. Teachers can export their data from the Profile page and delete their account at any time.
Reuse rights
Collected data serves account management, rubric personalisation, saving and reuse of the teacher's own material, history and longitudinal tracking, AI analysis of uploaded files, plus security, audit and billing. The legal bases are performance of the contract, legitimate interest for logs and monitoring, and explicit consent for TeacherStudio. Teachers reuse their own rubrics, corrections and generated resources freely and without asking, and the terms confirm that the rubrics they create remain their intellectual property. What is not done matters just as much: the header area of every paper is masked with a black rectangle before anything reaches the model, the conversational agent works through ten anonymised tools so that Gemini never sees student names, and the publisher states on all three legal pages that customer data does not train the Gemini models, whichever model is involved. No advertising or audience-measurement cookie is set, localStorage holding only authentication and theme. The subject-monitoring feature keeps usage counters and no reading history. Nothing is resold and no advertising is served.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
All personal data and all AI processing bearing on personal data take place inside the European Union, according to the publisher. The Firestore database sits in eur3, an EU multi-region covering Belgium and the Netherlands; file storage is in europe-west1 (Belgium); asynchronous server processing on Cloud Functions and Cloud Run runs in europe-west3 (Frankfurt, Germany) and europe-west1 (Belgium). On the AI side, Gemini 2.5 Flash runs in europe-west1 and Gemini 3.7 Flash in the European multi-region. The web application is deployed on Vercel in cdg1 (Paris), where the API functions execute exclusively, with worldwide CDN routing over HTTPS and, per the publisher, no data stored in the United States. Monitoring goes to Sentry at de.sentry.io in Frankfurt. Two exits from that perimeter are named openly: Gemini 3.1 Flash Image runs on a global endpoint, with prompts said to carry no personal data, and subscribers outside France are billed through Lemon Squeezy LLC in the United States, which receives only an email address and a technical identifier. French subscribers are billed by Stripe Payments Europe Ltd in Ireland. Encrypted backups are kept 7 to 28 days.
Where EvalIA works
Country-level availability.
Available in
Not available in
Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting EvalIA.
- Leaning on the first pass: the publisher insists the teacher alone answers for the final mark, which only holds if you genuinely re-read what the AI proposed instead of validating the batch wholesale, and a marking skill that is never exercised gets rusty
- Sign-up is restricted to institutional addresses from the three covered countries, so a teacher in a school outside those networks, or in any other country, may simply be unable to open an account
- Free-plan quotas are explicitly sized for testing rather than regular classroom use, and the prices are not readable on the /quotas page: they appear in clear only inside the terms of sale, so budget before you build a routine on the tool
- The publisher is one person running a micro-enterprise, with no founding date published and no Wayback archive, so the age of the service cannot be verified at source: check service continuity before committing a whole school
- No RGAA audit has been carried out, and the publisher lists his own accessibility gaps: insufficient contrast, dynamic updates not announced to screen readers, untagged PDFs
- Data leaves the EU perimeter in named cases: image generation on a global endpoint, subscription data of subscribers outside France held by Lemon Squeezy in the United States, and development data occasionally exposed to Anthropic during maintenance
- In school use the school itself is the data controller, so the processing register, the information of the people concerned and the DPIA fall on it rather than on the publisher
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
Setup is easy. Nothing to install, since EvalIA runs in the browser; sign-up needs an institutional address and no bank card, and the site claims a first rubric in under two minutes. No technical skill is required, the Atelier working through plain-language conversation, and the only hardware need is a way to scan or photograph papers. Connecting Pronote is optional, done by reading a QR code, with no password shared. One point deserves care: zero-knowledge encryption produces a 12-word recovery key shown only once, and losing both it and your password makes encrypted student names unreadable.
Deployment
Integrations
Supported languages
Behind EvalIA
Resources
All the official URLs gathered for verification and reference.
Alternatives
Tools that compete with or complement EvalIA.
Frequently asked questions
What is EvalIA?
Is EvalIA free?
Which countries and subjects does it cover?
Which AI models does EvalIA use?
Is my data used to train the AI?
Where is my data stored?
How long are students' papers kept?
What exactly is double correction?
Do students have to create an account?
What can I hand to my head teacher or my DPO?
Should you pick EvalIA?
EvalIA is a deliberately narrow tool, and that is its strength. Three countries, one working language, secondary and higher education, and the official curricula of France, French-speaking Belgium and Morocco built in rather than translated. A teacher inside one of those systems gets something no generalist chatbot offers; everyone else gets nothing at all.
Its thesis holds the whole product together. Double correction means the AI reads first, applying your rubric with the same consistency from the first script to the last, and you read second and set the mark. Uncertain passages are flagged, not invented. That single decision explains why the tool behaves like an assistant rather than an autopilot, and why the claim that the teacher stays responsible does not sound hollow.
The legal and technical file sits well above what the sector usually offers from a publisher this size: dated terms, a privacy policy revised in August 2026, an Article 28 processing agreement published in full, a DPIA on request, a free kit for the head teacher, European hosting, zero-knowledge encryption of student names and no cookies at all. It is the kind of documentation that makes the conversation with a DPO short.
The risk sits elsewhere. EvalIA is published by one man working as a French sole trader, and the business model is described by that same man as transitional, aimed at eventual funding from schools and education authorities rather than from individual teachers. With 800+ registered teachers claimed at the time of this review, the product is real but young. For an individual teacher, the free plan makes trying it cost nothing. For a school-wide rollout, ask about service continuity and future pricing before signing.
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