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Getting started

This guide walks you through creating an assessment, adding a student, and marking them. You’ll have a working setup in under five minutes.

The four screens

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IOA Marker has four main screens:

  1. Assessments — your list of assessments (the home screen)
  2. Assessment — a single assessment’s students and their marking status
  3. Setup — where you configure criteria, indicators, prompts, and settings
  4. Marking — where you capture marks and generate feedback for a student

You’ll move through them in that order when setting up a new assessment.

Create an assessment

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  1. Open the app
  2. Click New assessment
  3. Enter a name (you can change it later)
  4. Click Create

You’re now on the assessment screen. It’s empty because you haven’t added students yet.

Open setup

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Click Edit setup in the header to configure your assessment. The setup page has several tabs:

  • About — name, course, and date
  • Instructions — what students were asked to do
  • Prompts — questions you plan to ask
  • Context fields — extra info you capture per student (e.g., topic)
  • Marking — criteria, indicators, and scoring settings
  • AI comments — tone, length, and structure for generated feedback

For a quick start, you need criteria and indicators (both on the Marking tab) and at least one student.

Add a criterion

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  1. Go to the Marking tab
  2. In the Criteria section, click Add and select Add criterion
  3. Enter a name (e.g., “Understanding”) and max points (e.g., 50)
  4. Add another criterion (e.g., “Communication”, 50 points)

Your criteria now total 100 points.

Add an indicator

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  1. Stay on the Marking tab
  2. In the Indicators section, click Add and select Add indicator
  3. Enter a name (e.g., “Explains concepts clearly”)
  4. In the influence matrix below, click the cell where your indicator intersects with a criterion to set how strongly it affects that criterion’s score

Indicators are what you actually observe during the assessment. They influence how points are distributed across criteria.

Add a student

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  1. Click the back arrow to return to the assessment screen
  2. Click Add students and select Add single student
  3. Enter a name and optionally a student ID and email

Mark the student

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Click the student’s row to open the marking screen.

The marking screen has two views (toggle in the header):

Capture — record observations during the assessment:

  • Set the overall mark (0–100) — your holistic judgement
  • Set indicator values using the 5-point buttons
  • Check off prompts as you cover them
  • Add notes for anything else

Feedback — create written feedback after marking:

  • Click Generate to draft AI comments from your marks and notes
  • Edit the draft as needed
  • Click Save feedback to finalize

Next steps

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You’ve completed the basic flow. To learn more: