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The Part of the AI Marking Debate We Keep Missing
The AI marking debate is often framed as a choice between slow but personal human feedback and fast but impersonal automation. The more useful model is different: AI drafts first, and the teacher reviews, adjusts and approves what the student actually sees.
Why Essay Marks Are Less Certain Than We Pretend
Reflecting on my experience as a teacher and edtech founder, this essay explores why essay marking is noisier than we like to admit — and why the most valuable part of judgement is often the feedback, not the mark.
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What Makes TeachEdge Different from Other AI Marking Tools?
TeachEdge connects exam-specific AI marking with class assignments, teacher review, student feedback and progress tracking. Explore its three marking routes and the wider assessment workflow.
Beyond the Mark: A Better Way to Give Students Feedback
TeachEdge’s redesigned feedback helps students understand their performance, identify a transferable skill to develop and see how to improve their next answer.
How to Use Bulk Marking for Scanned Exam Scripts
A practical guide to using Teach Edge Bulk Marking for a batch of scanned or photographed student answers. This guide explains how to prepare scripts, upload them, group pages and review the results.
What students actually think about AI marking and feedback
King's School, Chester ran an independent student voice survey on TeachEdge after around 18 months of use. Here's what 148 students said about clarity, speed, progress, and trust in marking.
Stop Trying to Catch Them: Why AI Detection is a Dead End for UK Secondary Schools
AI detection tools cannot reliably prove whether a GCSE or A Level student used generative AI. Schools will get further by modelling good AI use and protecting supervised writing time.
The DfE says use AI responsibly. What does that mean in practice?
The DfE's AI guidance is sensible, but it's light on what do we do on a Tuesday night with 30 essays. Here's a practical playbook for responsible AI-assisted marking, plus a copy/paste one-page policy template.
Introducing the Teach Edge Question Generator
Teach Edge Question Generator helps teachers create original exam-style questions, extracts, case studies, diagrams, visual prompts and matching mark schemes, then load them into the Teach Edge Dashboard.