Generating feedback
After marking a student, you switch to Feedback view to create their feedback. Feedback has two parts:
- Scores — calculated automatically from your overall mark and indicator values
- Written comments — text that AI drafts for you, which you then edit and approve
This page covers the Feedback view and written comments.
Switch to Feedback view
Section titled “Switch to Feedback view”On the marking screen, use the toggle in the header to switch from Capture to Feedback.
Draft written comments with AI
Section titled “Draft written comments with AI”Click Generate to have AI draft written comments for this student. The app sends your marking data to the AI, which returns a draft based on how the student performed.
What AI sees:
- The overall mark
- Indicator values you set
- Context field values (e.g., the student’s topic)
- Your freeform notes
- Assessment instructions and comment settings
What AI doesn’t see:
- Student names or IDs
Edit the written comments
Section titled “Edit the written comments”The AI draft appears in an editable text area. Review it and make changes:
- Fix any inaccuracies
- Adjust tone or emphasis
- Add specific points you want to make
- Remove anything that doesn’t fit
The draft is a starting point. You decide what the student actually reads.
Refine with AI
Section titled “Refine with AI”If you want AI to revise the draft, click Refine and tell it what to change:
- “Make it shorter”
- “Add something about their evidence use”
- “Make the tone more encouraging”
- “Focus more on what they did well”
AI will update the draft based on your instructions.
Save the feedback
Section titled “Save the feedback”Click Save feedback (or Update feedback if you’ve already saved once). The marking status changes to Complete, meaning this student’s feedback (scores and written comments) is ready.
If you change marks after saving
Section titled “If you change marks after saving”If you change the overall mark or indicator values after saving, the app warns you that the written comments may no longer match the scores. You can:
- Regenerate to get a fresh draft based on the updated marks
- Keep the existing written comments if they’re still accurate
- Edit the written comments manually
Writing comments yourself
Section titled “Writing comments yourself”AI is optional. You can:
- Write comments from scratch in the editor
- Generate a draft and rewrite it completely
- Skip written comments altogether
The scores and the rest of the app work the same either way.
Comment settings
Section titled “Comment settings”How AI drafts written comments is configured in Edit setup on the AI comments tab:
- Tone — warm, professional, direct, etc.
- Length — paragraph count or word count
- Structure — strengths first, chronological, interwoven
- Grade bands — suggested language for different mark ranges
- Custom instructions — house style, phrases to use or avoid
See Written comments for more detail.
- Generate after marking, not during. Capture view is for the live assessment; Feedback view is for afterwards.
- Notes make better drafts. The more you write in notes, the more specific AI can be.
- Edit ruthlessly. AI gives you speed — you provide quality control.
- Refine is faster than rewriting. If the draft is 80% right, use Refine to fix the rest.