For instructors
Your judgment, multiplied
You can’t stand behind every booth at once. ArcForge gives your students structured feedback between your check-ins — and gives you a clear view of who needs you next.
The workflow
From roster to review
Six steps that fit how welding programs already run.
Set up your classes
Create a class per section or cohort. You see submissions and progress only for students in your classes — nothing else.
Invite students
Send invitations by email. Students join with their own accounts and keep their personal practice history private unless they submit it.
Assign specific welds
Define the assignment — process, joint, position, objective — and collect submissions with full analysis context attached.
Review with AI context
Each submission arrives with the student’s settings, details, and the AI’s educational findings — a structured starting point for your review, never a substitute for it.
Leave the verdict that counts
Your feedback is the authoritative one. Agree, partially agree, or disagree with each AI finding, correct its severity, or add your own — what the student sees follows your call, never the AI’s.
Track the cohort
Class-level views show who’s practicing, who’s stuck, and how practice scores trend — and an attention queue raises plain-language flags so bench time goes to the students who need it most.
The AI assists. You decide.
ArcForge never grades a weld for you, never claims a student’s work meets any standard, and never tells a student they’re ready for a test. The AI describes visible surface characteristics in cautious language so students arrive at your bench with better questions — and so your limited one-on-one time starts further down the road.
Practice plans let you prescribe drills directly, and assignment submissions keep the context, the settings, the AI’s educational findings, and your feedback in one record.
Also included
Rubrics, annotation, competencies — and the rest of the toolkit
Rubrics & grading
Build weighted rubrics, attach them to assignments, and grade criterion by criterion. Publish a rubric to share it with colleagues in your program, and scores keep the points they were given even if the rubric changes later.
Photo annotation
Draw on a student’s weld photo the way you’d mark a coupon at the bench — available only when the student chose to save that photo to their record. Draft privately, release when ready, and keep the follow-up conversation threaded on the weld itself.
Competency verification
Sign off observable shop competencies with labels that mean something: a student’s own entry stays self-reported until you mark it reviewed or verified, and only an instructor can. Verified records carry your name and date.
Attention queue
Plain-language flags across your roster — missing submissions, repeated concerns, slipping scores, students gone quiet. Each flag is a starting point for a conversation, never a verdict about a student.
Practice plans
Build step-by-step practice plans for individual students or whole classes — sequenced drills tied to the lessons and defect entries they reference.
Progress reports
Generate class and student reports from real activity — useful for program reviews, advisory boards, and student conferences.
For teaching welders
Bring structure to the time between check-ins
The Instructor plan includes class tools and your own analysis allowance. Teaching at a school? Ask about the School plan — instructor tools are included on every instructor seat.