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Bring reviewed AI marking into your school's workflow
Follow your mark schemes for classroom and mock work, keep teachers in control of every release, and stay clear about where AI drafts stop and regulated assessment begins.
- GCSE, A-Level & vocational
- ICO registered
- Teacher-in-control review
- DPA-ready for schools
Feedback Flows is built for UK school adoption: upload a class set, apply your own AQA, Edexcel, OCR or WJEC scheme (or an internal KS3 rubric), and AI drafts criterion-level feedback while you teach. Teachers review, override and release every mark. ICO registered, UK GDPR, teacher-in-control.
Subject examples include English coursework, science mocks with handwritten scripts, and history extended writing. Classroom and mock use is where teams start; regulated awards stay under your centre policy and JCQ expectations. Read JCQ AI guidance for NEA and coursework and compare tools on our AI marking software comparison. Training providers should see AI marking for training providers.
How teachers mark a class set
Six simple steps. Your paper, your scheme, your review.
Upload the paper and mark scheme
Upload the blank question paper and mark scheme as they are (PDF or Word). Feedback Flows stores them as a reusable question bank: the questions and the expected marks.
Upload the class ZIP
Zip the class scripts together. Handwritten scans or typed work both work.
AI marks every script
Each student gets scores and individual feedback against your scheme. The first pass runs in the background while you keep teaching.
See the class picture
Full breakdown for the set: where the class struggled most, where they did best, and the detail behind every question. Spot the teaching gaps that need another look next lesson.
Get a worksheet per student
Targeted practice from the topics each learner missed, shaped by your instructions.
Review, release, report
Edit borderline marks, release feedback when you are ready, and use reporting for the department. The AI never publishes alone.
New to the platform? Open the training suite for short walkthroughs of marking, feedback, and the rest of the toolkit. For teachers focused on reclaiming evenings, see AI marking for teachers and AI feedback for teachers. For the product-wide overview, start with the AI marking platform guide. Comparing vendors? See AI marking software compared (UK).
Why do UK schools look for AI marking?
Department for Education workload guidance consistently puts marking and feedback among the top time sinks for teachers. Generic AI chat tools are not built for assessment: they ignore your rubric, produce vague praise, and create moderation risk. UK schools need AI marking that aligns to GCSE, A-Level, BTEC, and vocational criteria, not a one-size-fits-all paragraph generator.
Feedback Flows applies your descriptors, supports batch cohort marking, and exports evidence for internal QA, whether you are a single department pilot or a MAT rolling out consistent practice trust-wide. Compare approaches in our article AI marking vs manual marking. For handwritten mocks and OCR workflows, see marking handwritten exam scripts with AI.
Marking tools UK schools use
Batch mocks, essay marking, exam scripts, integrity checks and learner follow-up, with teacher review on every mark.
Interactive Marking & Feedback
Upload student work for a deep, interactive review. The system links feedback directly to specific sections of the text, checks all references for accuracy, and provides a comprehensive summary of strengths and areas for improvement.
- Links comments to specific text highlights.
- Automatically verifies cited references.
- Offers overall strengths & improvement feedback.
Mark essays in seconds, not hours
Upload a piece of student work, select your rubric, and let the system do the heavy lifting. It provides detailed, criterion-based feedback, a summary of strengths and weaknesses, and an indicative grade.
- Matches your exact rubric criteria.
- Provides in-depth, constructive comments.
- Identifies key areas for improvement.
Create detailed rubrics from a simple prompt
Stop wrestling with tables. Just describe your assignment (like "A 5-paragraph essay on 'Macbeth' for Year 11"), and our system will generate a comprehensive, multi-level rubric for you to use and adapt.
- Generates criteria, descriptors, and levels.
- Easily edit and customise to fit your needs.
- Save and re-use your rubrics for any class.
Upload the paper, mark scheme, and class ZIP
Upload the blank question paper and mark scheme as they are (PDF or Word). Then upload a ZIP of student scripts, handwritten or typed. Feedback Flows marks each paper against your scheme and returns scores and feedback for review.
- Uses your raw question paper and mark scheme, no retyping required.
- ZIP of handwritten scans or typed scripts for the whole class.
- Individual marked papers plus class-wide strength and weakness analysis.
Mark an entire class set at once
Why mark one by one? Zip up your class's assignments, upload the file, and let Feedback Flows mark them all in the background. You'll get a notification when the detailed feedback for every student is ready.
- Handles .zip files with Word, PDF, and .txt.
- Intelligently matches files to students.
- Consistent, fair feedback across the entire class.
Personalised Learning, Automated
Don't just give a grade. After marking, our system analyses each student's unique strengths and weaknesses and automatically generates a personalised, targeted worksheet or analysis to help them improve exactly where they need it most. Personalised learning, automated.
- Targets specific areas of weakness.
- Creates unique worksheets for each student.
- Includes a mark scheme for easy review.
Digital Writing Fingerprints
Combat plagiarism and generated text with confidence. Feedback Flows creates a unique "digital writing fingerprint" for each student based on their past work. Upload future assignments to automatically verify if the writing style matches their known profile.
- Builds a style profile from previous work.
- Flags unusual changes in vocabulary or sentence structure.
- Helps ensure academic integrity.
True Argument-Level Referencing
Go beyond simple format checks. Deep analysis reads the student’s paragraph around each citation, compares their claim to the bibliography entry, and uses Crossref (DOI or title/author search) to ground the check, flagging mis-citations, over-claims, missing works, and retractions. Always confirm important cases against the full source.
- Verifies bibliography entries against Crossref.
- Checks if the student correctly interpreted the source.
- Highlights fake, stretched, or retracted references.
Mark a whole exam set from a ZIP
Upload the raw question paper and mark scheme, then a ZIP of student work (handwritten scans or typed scripts). Feedback Flows marks each script against your scheme from about 5 credits per student.
- Question paper + mark scheme uploaded as-is.
- ZIP of written or typed scripts for mocks and topic tests.
- Export results for moderation and records.
Turn feedback into revision packs
Generate structured learner packs from marked work: summaries, next steps, and practice prompts students can actually use. Share templates with your team library so departments reuse the same approach.
- Personalised packs from real marking data.
- Team-wide sharing for rubrics, templates, and packs.
- Student-ready documents in minutes.
See who needs help before it's too late
Cohort analytics, at-risk student widgets, intervention tracking, and exportable reports. Leaders get trust-wide insight; teachers get actionable flags on their classes.
- At-risk alerts on your customisable dashboard.
- AI summaries across classes and year groups.
- CSV exports for pastoral and leadership meetings.
Screen submissions for AI-generated text
Run standalone checks from 1 credit per document. Get a clear likelihood score and highlighted passages to support constructive conversations, not accusation-by-algorithm.
- Works alongside style comparison and reference checks.
- Fast screening before deeper integrity review.
- Available via the web app and API.
Assess presentations and oral work
Mark video and audio submissions against your rubric. Ideal for presentations, performances, and vocational demonstrations where written marking falls short.
- Transcript + visual cues combined in one review.
- Rubric-aligned feedback you approve before sharing.
- Supports mixed-modality courses and EPA evidence.
Guide students without giving answers away
Formative, Socratic feedback on drafts. Students improve their own work before submission while you stay in control of summative grades.
- Works with rubrics or general writing quality.
- Encourages independent learning and redrafting.
- Low credit cost per session.
Does it work with AQA, Edexcel, OCR and WJEC?
Yes, by bringing your mark scheme, not locking you into a fixed board library. Paste or upload the descriptors you already use for AQA, Edexcel, OCR, WJEC/Eduqas, or an internal KS3 framework. The same workflow covers BTEC, T-Level and EPA-style evidence that many GCSE-only tools cannot handle.
That bring-your-own model is deliberate: when boards update criteria mid-year, you update the scheme you upload. See how we compare to board-locked tools on our AI marking software comparison.
Can AI mark handwritten and scanned scripts?
Yes. Feedback Flows uses Vision OCR on photographed and scanned pages, ink drawn in Word, and image-heavy PDFs so scripts are not skipped as “no readable text” when the answers are still on the page. When a learner folder has more than one file (for example a PDF plus a Word draft), unread Office, PDF and image files are OCR’d and merged.
That matches how most UK classrooms still submit work: phone photos of physical papers, scanned mocks, and mixed typed/handwritten packs.
How much time does AI marking actually save?
Customer-reported outcomes from UK training providers and institutions (named clients under NDA).
Average time saved per person per day, as reported by organisations using Feedback Flows for marking.
The first pass is asynchronous: teachers keep teaching or prep while AI drafts marks and feedback in the background.
Marked through Feedback Flows to date, across apprenticeship providers and training institutions.
Where do GCSE, A-Level and vocational teams use it?
Secondary English, humanities, sixth form, FE and ITP teams use the same teacher-in-control workflow.
Mock and exam seasons
Batch-mark extended responses against the same rubric across a year group.
Coursework and NEA drafts
Formative feedback before final submission, with teacher review on every script.
Vocational & EPA-ready evidence
Structured comments that support internal QA and external sampling.
Cross-department consistency
Shared rubric libraries for MATs and federations.
Learner packs and follow-up
Targeted worksheets from rubric gaps, not generic revision lists.
Integrity alongside marking
Optional style comparison and reference checks in the same platform.
How do you handle privacy, ICO registration and school DPAs?
This is the canonical home for Feedback Flows’ UK school data and governance detail.
UK schools must scrutinise how pupil data is processed. Feedback Flows Ltd is ICO registered ((ZC132812). Student submissions are handled over encrypted connections; we do not sell data or use your content to train public AI models. Schools (or training providers) remain the controller of student data; we process it on your instructions under our Data Processing Agreement.
Enterprise marking governance adds policy acknowledgement, human-review sign-off before export or student-profile release, attestation on approve, and an audit trail for mark overrides and feedback edits, so trusts can show who signed what, when.
Read our Privacy Policy, legal hub, and governance articles on AI in schools: best practices and safe and responsible AI in classrooms before rollout. For regulated exams, Ofqual expects AI not to determine awarding outcomes alone. Our teacher-in-control model is designed around that expectation for classroom and mock use.
Teacher-in-control marking
AI drafts suggested marks and feedback; you edit, moderate, and publish. That model fits departmental sampling, trust QA calendars, and awarding-organisation expectations that AI must not determine outcomes alone.
AI marking for MATs → For ITPs → Compare UK AI marking tools →How should a department pilot AI marking?
Pick one assignment type and one rubric your team already trusts.
Compare AI drafts to a human-marked sample for band fit and comment usefulness.
Agree moderation rules with your department or phase lead.
Brief staff and, where policy requires, inform students or parents.
Scale to batch marking, then widen to other year groups or subjects.
Choosing a vendor? Read how to choose AI marking software in the UK or open the named comparison table.
Frequently asked questions
Try AI marking in your school
Free welcome credits for individual educators. Organisation quotes based on markers, learners and marking volume, usually cheaper than individual packs, with no-pressure trials.