- Create a marking set. Choose “New Marking Set” and enter the unit or course title and the assessment task. The more you say about the task (type, length and what students had to do), the more useful the feedback will be. Setting up is free.
- Add your criteria and grade scale. Enter up to eight marking criteria, one per line, with a short description after a colon if you like, or leave them blank and the AI proposes four or five from the task. Choose a grade scale: HD / D / C / P / F, First / 2:1 / 2:2 / Third / Fail, A to F, Exceeds / Meets / Approaching / Not yet, your own bands, or comments only with no grades.
- Choose the feedback style. Pick the tone (warm and encouraging, balanced and professional, or direct and concise), the length (brief, standard or detailed) and whether it’s written to the student (“you”) or about the work (“this submission”). Set the level and discipline too.
- Add your marking guide (optional). Paste your full rubric or marking notes so the feedback and grades follow them. You can also add the learning outcomes the task assesses, notes about your cohort and anything else the feedback should know, such as “students can resubmit, so focus on the two changes that would lift the grade most”.
- Build a comment bank now, if you want one. Tick the box to build a bank of reusable comments for every criterion and grade as you create the set, or build it later. Its price is on the box and the button. It’s written in parts, and you’re charged once, when it’s complete. If it stops partway, “Finish comment bank” carries on without charging you again.
- Write feedback on a piece of work. Open the marking set, paste the student’s work and add a name or label to keep track. Add your own notes on the work, and fix a grade for any criterion if you’ve already decided it. Choose “Write feedback”. Your notes and grades lead, and the feedback is written around them. It usually takes 15 to 40 seconds, and you’re charged only once it’s saved.
- Read and edit the feedback. You’ll see an overall comment, strengths, and for each criterion a grade, a comment, a short quote from the work as evidence and a next step, then advice for next time. Edit any of it for free. Quotes are only kept if they really appear in the work.
- Use the comment bank. The bank gives you a comment and a next step for each criterion at each grade, plus openers and closers. Click any comment to copy it, edit the bank for free, or download it as Word or print it.
- See class patterns. As you mark, Class patterns shows how many students fell in each grade for each criterion, which criteria were hardest for this class, and the next steps given most often. It’s a quick way to see what to re-teach.
- Export and build on it. Copy for the LMS copies one student’s feedback ready to paste. Word downloads feedback with one student per page, CSV for your gradebook gives you grades in a spreadsheet, and Print / PDF opens a print-ready page. From a marking set you can also generate a revision worksheet on the gaps, 10 MCQs on the gaps, or plan a session to re-teach them, each priced on its own button. Every marking set is saved to “My Marking Sets” and to “Everything You’ve Generated” on your User Hub.
Every action’s credit cost is shown on its own button before you commit to it. Nothing is charged silently.
Your students’ privacy. The student’s name or label is replaced with “[student]” before anything is sent to the AI, and the pasted work itself is never stored, only the feedback. Check your institution’s policy on using AI tools with student work before you start.