Grammarly for Education

Before you start:

You must have an active student, faculty, or staff affiliation and a valid PennKey in order to use the University's Grammarly for Education service. Wharton is providing licenses for users who participated in the 2025 Grammarly for Education Pilot through Spring 2026. From July 2026, users will need to license Grammarly from their own budgets.

About Grammarly for Education

Grammarly for Education is an AI-assisted writing assistant, providing suggestions for grammar, spelling, punctuation, unclear sentences, usage of commonly confused words, incorrect citation style formatting, and tone and clarity. It works on multiple platforms including on desktops client, mobile devices, and in browsers and offers real-time feedback on various aspects of writing, such as grammatical errors, punctuation, and style elements.

Grammarly for Education is available as:

Note: While Grammarly meets the University’s high standards for data privacy for "low" and "medium" risk data, HIPAA usage is pending additional reviews by Penn Medicine Privacy and the Office of Audit, Compliance, and Privacy.

Generally, University data classified as "high" (including PII, PCI, and HIPAA) is not permissible in Grammarly. If you're interested in using Grammarly with HIPPA data, please contact the Wharton Information Security Office.

How to Sign up

ISC's Grammarly Pilot ended in December 2025, however Wharton is maintaining the cost of licenses for existing users through June 2027. Wharton full-time faculty, staff and PhDs can request a Grammarly account by contacting Client Support Services at computing@wharton.upenn.edu.

Installing Grammarly on your Wharton Computer

You can install the latest version of the Grammarly desktop client on Wharton Managed computers by using BigFix or JAMF self-service. This will install the Grammarly client on your computer without the need for an administrator password.

Windows Instructions

Mac Instructions

Resources

Grammarly has a number of great resources to help you get the most out of the tool:

User Guides

Want to figure out how to integrate Grammarly into your process? This collection of user guides, which cover all the devices on which you can use Grammarly, will show you the basics and some tips and tricks to level up your Grammarly usage:

Feature Highlights

Occasionally, Grammarly shares articles diving into a particular product feature. Here are a few such articles that may interest you:

Questions?

Please contact your Wharton Computing representative with any questions regarding Grammarly for Education.