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Grok Bot for teachers and students: score sheets, weekly email, and study tools

Not tested yet: The grading account is secondhand: a husband describing his wife's setup. Look for a teacher's own write-up. Educator pricing: Sanders said on Sep 28 that xAI still prices teachers like everyone else. Recheck the pricing page.

What working teachers and tutors say they hand to Grok Bot, from a score sheet and the week's email to a study tool, and the student data rules to settle first.

Work value 2/10

Teachers and tutors are posting real Grok Bot setups on X, mostly for the work around teaching: marking, records, email and the week's calendar. This playbook collects the ones with enough detail to copy. It is for a classroom teacher, a tutor, or a teaching assistant, and for students who want a study tool from their own notes.

Not tested: The Daily Bot has no class or student work to run this on, so we haven't tried these setups. Everything below comes from the linked posts and docs. One account is secondhand, and we say which.

What teachers use it for#

  • A first pass on a class set. @paulism wrote on Aug 29 that "My wife uses grok bot to correct her students' assignments." The part he stresses is the summary: she "has also gotten a clearer picture of what her students really need with a comprehensive 'common problem' analysis," so "her next assignment will be better responding to students' obstacles during learning." This is secondhand, from her husband.
  • The week around teaching. Barrett Sanders, a CTE Film and TV teacher at a public high school in Arizona, put it in one line on Sep 28: "Grok Bot is the teammate: email, calendar, briefs, the actual week."
  • Records. Andre Clouthier, a private English tutor in Korea who posts as @mrjayenglish, wrote on Oct 7 that he "made a new Grok Bot, MRJ Metrics. Its only job is to keep my classroom score sheet healthy." The same post says "Student Scout sent 89 introductions to new students" and "A checker bot found a save bug in my vocabulary game the same night students first played it." He doesn't say those two are Grok Bots. He also runs "16 AI agents of my own (Hermes)."
  • A study tool from lecture notes. Jen C, a neuroanatomist, said on Sep 21 her Bot "made an 'app' to help students localize the neuroanatomical location of nervous system damage (where is the lesion?) based on my lecture notes and cross checked with known neuroanatomical knowledge."

What students use it for#

Fiona Whittington, who works on Community and Education at SpaceXAI, posted on Sep 3 that Student Build Day had "40+ events today, supporting 1,700+ students," with a challenge: "Show me a Grok Bot that solves a real back-to-school problem (homework, schedules, recruiting)." Schedules and study tools like Jen C's are the safe end of that list. A Bot that writes graded work for you is a question for your school's academic integrity rules, not a setup we'd recommend.

Connectors to set up#

Clouthier is the one who names a connector. "Hermes and MRJ Metrics now share one Google Drive mailbox with a 'doorbell,' so no bot has to keep checking on a timer." Hermes is his own agent setup. MRJ Metrics is the Grok Bot. Sanders describes "email, calendar, briefs" and doesn't name the apps. Add Drive, and Gmail and Google Calendar if that is where your week lives, from Connect apps in the sidebar (Cursor's docs).

Routines#

No teacher here published a clock time. Two ways to start:

  1. After an assignment closes, run the example prompt by hand. Correct the feedback until it sounds like you, then ask the Bot to save the method as a skill (Save a skill).
  2. For records, copy Clouthier's MRJ Metrics idea: one Bot whose only job is the score sheet. Ask it for a weekly routine that lists missing, duplicated or out-of-range scores and changes nothing. Click Test on the routine before you rely on it (Cursor Help Center: Routines).

Example prompt#

This is our prompt, built from Clouthier's line that MRJ Metrics' "only job is to keep my classroom score sheet healthy." He didn't list the checks. It changes nothing in the sheet:

Prompt
Look at the class score sheet in the Google Drive folder we share. List missing scores, duplicated scores, and scores outside the allowed range, with the student and the assignment. Don't change any cell, don't email students or parents, and don't enter a grade. If you can't open the sheet, say so.

What to expect#

These are self-reported, and none comes with a time figure.

  • The common-problems summary is the result @paulism describes, secondhand. He says it lets her next assignment respond to what students found hard.
  • Clouthier's numbers are counts of work done (89 introductions, one bug caught the first night), not time saved.
  • Sanders gives no figure, but he is paying for it himself: "Public-school teacher. Paying full SuperGrok Plus."

Gotchas#

  • Student data. Submissions, grades and parent emails are student records. Check your school or district's rules before connecting a gradebook, a student inbox or a Drive folder of student work. A shared Bot link exposes "identity, description, skills, and routines," so keep student data out of a Bot's description if you plan to share it (Share a Bot).
  • You enter the grades. Keep the Bot at drafts. The example prompt says so, and Cursor's docs say to keep "sending, purchasing, deleting, publishing, and production changes behind approval."
  • Cost. Sanders wrote on Sep 24 that "Heavy is $300 a month. Plus is $100. That's the wall for teachers." On Sep 28 he wrote "ChatGPT and Claude already have teacher plans. xAI still prices teachers like everyone else," and was at "87% used. 6 days left." Frequent routines spend usage: "An hourly schedule, a short interval, or a Slack trigger on a busy channel can use a week of usage in a day" (Routines).
  • Shared computer memory. Clouthier's Bots share one cloud computer, which "got down to about 1.2 GB of free memory out of 15. Chrome alone used about 10 GB across 8 bot browsers, some with week-old tabs still open." Ask your Bots to close tabs when a task ends.
  • Check the subject matter. Jen C had her Bot cross-check its tool against known neuroanatomy. Do the same for any practice tool before students use it.

Sources#