Discover how our innovative digital marking process streamlines marking, improves feedback quality, speeds up learning outcomes, and cuts down on administrative tasks, setting a new standard for academic achievement.
Our code-based digital marking software is designed to make the marking process not just easier but also more impactful for students and teachers. Here’s a step-by-step guide to how MarkSmart simplifies marking and feedback.
Uploading assessments onto the MarkSmart platform is intuitive and user-friendly, laying the foundation for a streamlined digital marking process that saves you both time and hassle. MarkSmart accommodates all types of English assessments, from traditional in-class essays to creative writing assignments, critical literature analysis and everything in between.
Whether from the convenience of your classroom or the comfort of your home, you can upload your students' work in various formats, be it scanned handwritten essays or digital documents. This eliminates traditional administrative challenges like manually collecting papers, organising them for marking and keeping track of physical submissions. With MarkSmart, a few simple clicks replace these time-consuming tasks, freeing you up to concentrate on nurturing your students' writing abilities.
At the heart of MarkSmart's innovation lies its code-based feedback system, a feature designed to revolutionise the way you approach marking. Using our comprehensive Code Banks, you can drag and drop specific feedback codes onto student assessments, streamlining the marking process while ensuring feedback is precise, consistent, and significantly less time-consuming.
Developed with the insights of experienced educators, including co-founder Kate McCaffrey, the Code Banks are tailored to address common areas of improvement in student work, such as thesis statement clarity, argument development, and evidence integration in essays. This provides targeted feedback that students can easily understand and act upon. The platform also allows for additional personalisation, such as underlining, highlighting, and giving a thumbs-up to acknowledge exceptional work. This enables you to maintain a meaningful connection with your students while leveraging the efficiency of code-based feedback.
With MarkSmart's analytics, monitoring student progress is transformed into a straightforward and insightful process. The platform delivers both high-level overviews and granular analyses through intuitive snapshots and detailed reports, making it simple to gauge the effectiveness of teaching strategies and student understanding. These analytics extend across various levels, offering insights into individual student performance, classroom dynamics, and trends over the academic year.
For instance, you can analyse specific aspects, such as essay writing proficiency, comprehension of literary themes, or grammatical accuracy, allowing for a targeted approach to your instruction and feedback. By identifying patterns of achievement and areas needing attention, you can celebrate student successes with tangible evidence and strategically address weaknesses. This data-driven approach also enables you to customise lesson plans and remediation strategies, ensuring that your teaching interventions are both timely and relevant.
The MarkSmart process actively promotes the concept of feedforward, ingraining it as a critical step in the feedback cycle. This method emphasises the importance of looking ahead, encouraging students to reflect on their assessments with a focus on future improvement rather than past performance.
By integrating feedforward feedback before assigning final marks, MarkSmart facilitates a constructive dialogue between you and your students, aimed at encouraging a growth mindset and enabling continuous learning.
Feedforward transforms the traditional feedback experience into an opportunity for active student engagement and development. This approach not only prepares students for their next assessment but also strengthens the teacher-student relationship through ongoing, meaningful communication.
We’ve designed our onboarding process to set you up for the best success with our code-based digital marking platform. Here’s how you can start enhancing your educational practices with MarkSmart:
Book a Call
Kick off your MarkSmart journey by scheduling a call with us. This step is your entry into a personalised exploration of how MarkSmart can fulfil your specific educational objectives.
Personalised Consultation
A member of our team will reach out to discuss your specific requirements, offer basic information about our software, and schedule a comprehensive presentation. This in-depth demonstration provides you with a clear understanding of how MarkSmart works, showcasing its intuitive design and transformative capabilities.
Enjoy a 3-Month Free Trial
Upon completion of your MarkSmart presentation, you get to take the wheel with a three-month free trial. This no-obligation trial run allows you to witness firsthand the benefits of our platform, such as reduced marking time, enhanced feedback and boosted learning outcomes, all at zero cost.
Subscribe
We're confident that you'll be impressed by the efficiency, engagement, and effectiveness MarkSmart brings to your educational environment. Should you wish to continue to reap the MarkSmart benefits, transitioning to an annual subscription on a per-student basis is straightforward.
Book a Call
Kick off your MarkSmart journey with a personalised walkthrough - either in-person or remote, depending on what suits you best. This 1-hour session is all about exploring how MarkSmart works and showcasing its intuitive design and transformative capabilities.
Enjoy a 3-Month Free Trial
Upon completion of your MarkSmart presentation, you get to take the wheel with a three-month free trial. This no-obligation trial run allows you to witness firsthand the benefits of our platform, such as reduced marking time, enhanced feedback and boosted learning outcomes, all at zero cost.
Subscribe
We're confident that you'll be impressed by the efficiency, engagement, and effectiveness MarkSmart brings to your educational environment. Should you wish to continue to reap the MarkSmart benefits, transitioning to an annual subscription on a per-student basis is straightforward.
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