ACCESS GRADER is an automated grader for use by instructors in Microsoft Access and Microsoft Office application courses. ACCESS GRADER compares a correct version of a database with a student’s version and records the errors in an Access table. ACCESS GRADER is a Microsoft Access application. ACCESS GRADER extracts attributes from the student database objects and the instructor's correct version of the database. These attributes are placed into one of five different Access tables: Tables, Indexes, Relations, Fields, or Queries. After attributes are extracted from both the instructor's correct database and a student's database, the resulting tables are compared. Missing records (attributes) are first detected and recorded. Next, common records are compared a field at a time. Fields that differ are recorded in the “E R R O R S” table. ACCESS GRADER includes reports and a tool for plagiarism detection