Outsourced Marking for UK Schools & Mocks

Feedback Flows offers a managed outsourced marking service for UK schools, Multi-Academy Trusts (MATs), colleges and training providers. When mock windows, trust-wide assessments or staff gaps create a backlog, we clear the first pass for you — with human moderation — then hand back data your department can act on the same week.

Peak periods

When schools and providers use outsourced marking

Built for exam seasons and bottlenecks, not just one-off essays.

GCSE, A-Level and year-group mock windows

Clear hundreds of Year 10–13 mock scripts in days rather than weeks so teachers have marks and gap analysis ready for parents' evenings, predicted grades and revision lessons.

Trust-wide and end-of-term common assessments

Mark an entire year group or multiple schools in a MAT against one shared mark scheme with zero marker drift between classes.

Staff absence, vacancies and department backlogs

Cover long-term sickness, maternity gaps or unfilled specialist posts without overloading the rest of the department.

Apprenticeship, BTEC and vocational cohort peaks

Turn around coursework, portfolio evidence and knowledge tests ahead of IQA sampling and EPA gateway deadlines.

Managed workflow

How the outsourced marking service works

Five steps from your paper to client-ready packs.

1

Send the paper, mark scheme and school logo

AQA, Edexcel, OCR, WJEC/Eduqas, BTEC or internal schemes as PDF or Word. No retyping. Optional logo for branded student reports.

2

Upload your cohort scripts

One ZIP of scanned handwritten papers, photographed scripts or digital Word/PDF files — even nested in class folders.

3

Accuracy engine + human moderation

We correlate questions and schemes, extract handwriting, tables and diagrams with Vision OCR, run multi-pass marking, then review and adjust before sign-off.

4

Receive your deliverables pack

Branded individual student PDFs, a Teacher Summary Pack PDF and an MIS-ready CSV gradebook.

5

Turn data into classroom action

Optional handover into your Feedback Flows account for targeted worksheets, learner packs and longitudinal reporting.

Feedback depth

The level of detail every learner receives

Outsourced marking is not a single grade stamp. Each script is broken down to the same depth your best marker would aim for under less time pressure.

Question-by-question marks and scheme alignment — Exact marks awarded versus available for every question and sub-part, mapped to your mark scheme points.
Specific evidence and justification — Explanations tied to what the student wrote, calculated or drew, including OCR'd handwriting, Word tables and visual diagrams or graphs.
Actionable improvements and next steps — Student-friendly guidance on how to gain the missing marks next time, plus a structured overall summary of strengths and priority revision areas.

Example marked question

Q3 (4 marks) — Awarded 2 / 4

Feedback: Correct identification of the process, but the explanation missed the second mark-scheme point on energy transfer. Add a labelled energy arrow and one sentence linking the calculation to the unit.

Improvement: Practise two similar short-answer items with explicit units and a closing explanatory sentence.

Question-level marks on a marked exam script

Criterion-based feedback with strengths and next steps

Data and reporting

Deliverables and the data you get back

Every managed batch returns packs leaders and classroom teachers can use immediately.

Branded Teacher Summary Pack PDF

School logo header, cohort KPIs (class average, median, mode, highest and lowest score, percentage distribution), narrative AI Class Analysis highlighting whole-class misconceptions and re-teaching priorities, a Question Performance and Difficulty table (Hard under 40%, Moderate, Easy over 80%), and the Student Leaderboard.

Individual student report PDFs (ZIP)

Ready-to-print or email PDFs for every learner with your school's name and logo, total score and percentage, overall feedback and the full question-by-question breakdown.

Enhanced CSV gradebook

Student Name, Status, Total Awarded, Total Available, Percentage (%), Overall Summary, and individual Q1…Qn Marks and Feedback columns for SIMS, Arbor, Bromcom or Excel.

Class analytics and performance overview

Connected tools

What you can do next with the data on Feedback Flows

Outsourced marking can stand alone, or feed the same toolkit your staff use year-round.

Targeted worksheets and learner packs

Generate a bespoke revision worksheet or evidence pack for each student from the exact questions they missed in the mock.

Targeted worksheets → Learner packs →

Reporting hub, profiles and AI chat

Track progress across terms, monitor ALN/SEN and EAL cohorts, and ask natural-language questions of your assessment data.

Reporting hub → Learner profiles → AI Chat analytics →

Academic integrity suite

Screen coursework batches for AI writing, inter-student copying, authorship shifts and fabricated references.

AI writing detector → Similarity scoring → Writing fingerprints → Reference checker →

Also useful around exam seasons: exam paper marking, automated test marking, and AI marking for UK schools.

Choose your model

Outsourced service, self-serve platform, or hybrid

Managed

Outsourced marking

We run the batch for you during peak exam periods. Ideal when the department cannot absorb a full mock window.

Self-serve

Platform for your staff

Teachers run batches themselves anytime: free credits to start, subscriptions or an enterprise shared credit pool.

Hybrid

Outsourced mocks + year-round access

Hand us the big mock; keep Feedback Flows for ordinary class marking, worksheets, reporting and integrity checks.

Governance

UK data protection and professional judgement

Feedback Flows Ltd is ICO registered (ZC132812). Schools and training providers remain the controller of student data; we process scripts on your instructions under our Data Processing Agreement. We do not sell student data and do not use learner work to train or build AI models.

For regulated awarding, Ofqual expects AI not to determine outcomes alone. Outsourced marking is designed for classroom mocks, internal assessments and formative or diagnostic use with human moderation. Read how we handle learner work and our privacy policy.

What we need for a quote

Subject and year group
Approximate script count
Handwritten, digital or mixed
Preferred turnaround window
Whether you want a small sample first

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

It is a managed marking service for UK schools, Multi-Academy Trusts, colleges and training providers. You send your question paper, mark scheme (or rubric) and a ZIP of student scripts. We mark the cohort against your criteria, review every script, and return branded student report PDFs, a Teacher Summary Pack and a CSV gradebook.

Most often during GCSE and A-Level mock windows, trust-wide common assessments, end-of-term exams, staff absence or vacancies, and vocational or apprenticeship cohort peaks ahead of IQA sampling and EPA gateway. It is designed for peak workload periods when departments cannot clear hundreds of scripts in time.

Three core deliverables: (1) branded individual student report PDFs as a ZIP, (2) a Teacher Summary Pack PDF with cohort KPIs, AI class analysis, question difficulty and a student leaderboard, and (3) an enhanced CSV gradebook with totals, percentages and per-question marks and feedback for SIMS, Arbor, Bromcom or Excel.

Every learner gets question-by-question marks mapped to your mark scheme, evidence-based justifications tied to what they wrote, calculated or drew (including handwriting OCR, tables and diagrams), actionable improvement points, and an overall feedback summary of strengths and priority next steps.

Yes. Our accuracy engine uses Vision OCR on photographed and scanned pages, ink drawn in Word, image-heavy PDFs, Word tables and visual diagrams. Wrapper folders in ZIPs are detected correctly so a Year 11 mock pack with one folder per student still becomes one student per script.

Yes. Bring your own scheme: AQA, Edexcel, OCR, WJEC/Eduqas, BTEC, T-Level, EPA descriptors or an internal KS3 framework. We correlate the question paper and mark scheme (or use a shared template) so marks follow your points, not a generic board library.

Yes. Self-serve means your teachers run batches in their own accounts year-round. Outsourced marking means we run the batch for you during peak periods and return client-ready packs. Many organisations use a hybrid: outsourced mocks plus self-serve access for ordinary class marking and integrity tools.

Every batch is moderated before handover. AI drafts the first pass against your scheme; our team reviews borderline scores, adjusts feedback where needed and signs off before the Teacher Pack and student PDFs are released. Final professional judgement for regulated awarding remains with your staff.

Feedback Flows Ltd is ICO registered (ZC132812) and UK-built. Schools and providers remain the data controller. We process scripts under our Data Processing Agreement, do not sell student data, and do not use learner work to train or build AI models. Our AI provider processes requests through an API that does not train on your content.