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What is Lectora?
Lectora is AI and statistics for course assessment in higher education, built by Fjordbyte in Norway. Inside Canvas, it drafts scores, reasons and written feedback from your rubric and course material. A qualified examiner approves every grade before publication. These answers cover the workflow, student data, integrations and how to evaluate Lectora with your institution.
What is Lectora, in a sentence?
Lectora drafts scores, reasons and written feedback from your rubric and course material; a qualified examiner reviews and approves every grade before publication.
It supports the first draft, cohort statistics and individual feedback inside the assessment workflow. The grading page shows the steps, and the validation page separates measured score agreement from capabilities that have not been validated by those studies.
Who builds Lectora?
Fjordbyte AS, a Norwegian software company. Lectora is Fjordbyte's flagship product. The team is small, technical, based in Norway, and built the validation methodology in partnership with the University of Bergen's medical faculty. Pricing, support, and contracting are all handled directly — there's no reseller layer.
How does data privacy work?
Start with the Canvas access page: it documents what Lectora reads and writes, the difference between LTI and Personal Access Token connections, storage regions, retention and deletion. The Data Processing Agreement sets out the processing terms, and the subprocessor list identifies providers and transfer safeguards. Student answers are not used to train AI models under the published terms.
Your institution reviews and approves the use of student data before a pilot. A technically available connection does not replace that approval. Website tracking is documented separately in the cookie inventory.
How is Lectora priced?
Pricing is agreed for the course or institutional pilot scope. Request access to discuss the assessment you want to evaluate. The proposal covers price, evaluation period, connection and support before you commit.
How does Lectora fit into our existing grading workflow?
- Connect Canvas through an institutional LTI installation or an agreed Personal Access Token pilot. Select the assessment, rubric and course material.
- Let Lectora draft scores, reasons and written feedback. Review the drafts against your assessment criteria and edit where needed.
- A qualified examiner approves every grade. Publish reviewed grades and comments back to the Canvas assignment when ready.
For Inspera-delivered exams, an administrator connects the exam system and imports exams and candidate responses for review in Lectora. The Inspera integration page describes that workflow and its current limit: results cannot be published back to Inspera.