Frequently Asked Questions

TeachEdge is a UK-based, web-based assessment and feedback platform for secondary education. Teachers can create questions, assign tasks, collect student responses, generate draft marks and feedback, review and release results, and use assessment records for progress tracking and reporting.

Teachers can also use Quick Mark for individual responses or Exam Script Marking for scanned batches without creating a student-portal assignment.

TeachEdge is built primarily for secondary school teachers and departments, particularly for GCSE and A Level assessment. Tutors, parents and students can also use TeachEdge through independent accounts and credit bundles. The features available depend on the account type.

TeachEdge includes:

• Quick Mark for individual responses.
• Class Marking for assignments submitted through the student portal.
• Exam Script Marking for batches of scanned responses.
• Question Generator for original exam-style questions and supporting resources.
• Structured marks and feedback.
• Class insights and individual progress tracking.
• Second attempts and feedback acknowledgement.
• Scaffolding, reporting and printable feedback.
• Exam Mode.
• Personalised tutoring with teacher oversight.

Quick Mark is for individual responses. The teacher supplies the question and answer and receives draft marks and feedback without setting up a class assignment.

Class Marking is for assignments given to a class or selected students. Students submit through their TeachEdge portal, and the teacher reviews and releases feedback.

Exam Script Marking is for scanned batches of student work. The teacher uploads the scripts, confirms which pages belong to each response, and generates draft results and feedback for review.

Students need accounts to submit work and receive feedback through the Class Marking portal.

Teachers can use Quick Mark and Exam Script Marking to supply work themselves without requiring each student to submit through an account. The teacher needs a TeachEdge account with access to the relevant tool.

Teachers and schools can start with a trial to explore the marking and feedback tools.

Quick Mark provides a straightforward way to try an individual response without setting up a class assignment. Class Marking lets teachers explore the wider workflow of setting tasks, collecting submissions, reviewing feedback and returning it to students.

Contact TeachEdge for help getting started or to arrange a demonstration.

Yes. Students, parents and tutors can use TeachEdge through independent accounts and credit bundles. Independent student access is simplified and does not include the full set of teacher and class-management tools.

TeachEdge is primarily designed for GCSE and A Level exam-style assessment. Some teachers use it with KS3 for structured writing and short-answer practice, but coverage is strongest where exam-board-style marking criteria apply.

1. The teacher sets a question and assigns it to a class or selected students.
2. Students submit their responses through their TeachEdge portal.
3. TeachEdge generates draft marks and feedback.
4. The teacher reviews the results and can adjust marks or edit feedback.
5. The teacher releases feedback to students.
6. Assessment records support tracking, follow-up work and reporting.

This keeps assignment, submission and feedback in one workflow.

Quick Mark is for marking an individual response without creating a class assignment.

The teacher supplies the question and answer, selects the appropriate marking setup, and receives draft marks and structured feedback. Quick Mark supports text and uploaded image or PDF material, including handwritten responses and questions containing visual resources.

It is useful for occasional marking, checking an example answer or trying TeachEdge before setting up a class.

Exam Script Marking is TeachEdge’s bulk marking tool for scanned student responses.

The teacher uploads scanned work, checks the pages and confirms where each response starts and ends. TeachEdge then uses the selected marking setup to generate draft marks and feedback for each response.

The teacher reviews the results before using them. This is useful for handwritten practice answers and scanned class sets without requiring students to upload their work individually.

Quick Mark and Class Marking provide structured feedback that makes the main assessment messages easy to find.

Depending on the question type and marking framework, this includes:

• The overall result.
• A breakdown against relevant assessment objectives or criteria.
• What the student did well.
• The main improvement priority.
• Practical next steps.

Detailed written commentary remains available for a fuller explanation. In Class Marking, teachers can review and edit the draft before releasing it to students.

Yes. The redesigned feedback in Quick Mark and Class Marking presents the main result, strengths, improvement priority and next steps in a clear structure.

Detailed commentary remains available for teachers and students who want a fuller explanation. This helps students find their main priorities without having to extract them from a long passage of feedback.

No. TeachEdge produces draft marks and feedback. In Class Marking, teachers can adjust marks, rewrite or shorten feedback, and review the result before releasing it to students.

Teachers should also check Quick Mark and Exam Script Marking results before relying on them.

In Class Marking, you can change the mark and edit the feedback before release. Review the student’s response against the relevant marking guidance and use your professional judgement to make the final assessment decision.

Quick Mark and Exam Script Marking also provide draft results for you to check before use.

We recommend reading student work so that you remain familiar with students’ progress, reasoning and misconceptions.

TeachEdge helps reduce the workload of producing marks and feedback. Teachers remain responsible for checking results and deciding how to use them.

TeachEdge uses marking guidance tailored to supported subjects, exam boards and question types. This helps the assessment reflect the demands of the selected question.

AI-generated marks and feedback can still need correction. Teachers should review results against the student’s work and relevant criteria, and adjust them where necessary.

TeachEdge uses AI to generate draft marks and feedback. Teachers remain responsible for assessment decisions and how the results are used.

In Class Marking, teachers can review and edit the draft before releasing feedback to students.

Yes. TeachEdge supports extended responses and shorter exam answers. The available marking options depend on the subject, qualification, exam board and question type.

Yes. Teachers can assign a question to a whole class or selected students. This supports intervention, catch-up work and targeted practice.

TeachEdge combines exam-specific marking guidance with tools for managing assessment.

Teachers can set assignments, collect student submissions, review and release feedback, retain assessment records, identify class trends and organise follow-up work.

Quick Mark and Exam Script Marking provide additional routes for individual responses and scanned batches. Question generation, progress tracking, second attempts and reporting extend the workflow beyond generating feedback on one answer.

Yes. The Question Generator can create original exam-style questions with supporting material such as extracts, case studies and matching mark schemes. Worked solutions can be included where relevant.

Teachers should check and adapt generated material before using it. Questions can be used within the wider TeachEdge assignment and marking workflow.

Yes. The Question Generator can create diagrams, images and visual prompts to accompany questions.

Teachers should check the content, labels and suitability of generated visuals before using them with students.

Yes. Teachers can use their own questions, including supporting extracts, data, case studies and visual resources.

Select the relevant subject, qualification, exam board and question type for the marking task, then review the results against the question’s requirements.

Yes. Students can upload images of handwritten answers through the student portal. Clear photographs or scans help make handwriting and annotations readable.

Teachers can also supply handwritten work themselves through Quick Mark or use Exam Script Marking for scanned batches.

Yes. Students can upload diagrams and visual working as part of their response. This supports questions where diagrams, calculations or other visual material need to be considered alongside written explanation.

Labels and working should be clearly readable.

Yes. Teachers can attach resources such as PDF documents and images to a task. These can include extracts, graphs, data and case-study material.

Students can view the resources as part of the question.

The available formats depend on the marking route and whether the material is a question resource or a student response.

• Student-portal responses can include typed answers and PNG or JPEG images of handwriting and diagrams.
• Teacher-supplied question resources can include images and PDF documents.
• Quick Mark supports text and uploaded image or PDF material.
• Exam Script Marking provides a route for uploading scanned batches of student responses.

Use the upload options shown in the relevant tool when preparing material.

TeachEdge supports a growing range of subjects and qualifications. Exam-board coverage includes AQA, Edexcel, OCR and selected Eduqas or WJEC courses, depending on the subject and qualification.

Subjects include:

• Economics: GCSE and A Level.
• Business: GCSE, A Level and vocational.
• Accounting: GCSE and A Level.
• History: GCSE and A Level.
• Psychology: A Level.
• Religious Studies: GCSE and A Level.
• Law: A Level.
• Politics: A Level.
• Sociology: A Level.
• English Literature: GCSE and A Level.
• English Language: GCSE and A Level.
• English Literature and Language: A Level.
• Classics: GCSE.
• Maths: GCSE and A Level, including Further Maths.
• Biology: GCSE and A Level.
• Chemistry: GCSE and A Level.
• Physics: GCSE and A Level.
• Geography: GCSE and A Level.
• French: GCSE and A Level.
• Spanish: GCSE and A Level.
• Criminology: WJEC Level 3.
• Music: A Level.
• Philosophy: A Level.
• Food and Nutrition: GCSE.
• Film Studies: GCSE and A Level.

Availability varies by subject, qualification, exam board and question type. Check the current selections in TeachEdge for your course. You can request additional coverage if the option you need is missing.

No. TeachEdge is independent of, and is not endorsed by, any examination board.

Share the class code with your students. They use the code to join the relevant TeachEdge class.

Students can sign into an existing TeachEdge account or create a new one through the joining process. Google and Microsoft sign-in are also available where enabled by the school and permitted for the student’s school email domain.

Yes, where the school has enabled student single sign-on and approved the relevant school email domains.

Students should use their eligible school account. A personal Google or Microsoft account is not automatically eligible.

Google or Microsoft sign-in provides account access; it does not imply integration with Google Classroom or Microsoft Teams.

Yes. Students can use a conventional TeachEdge account.

After entering a valid class code, they can choose the TeachEdge account route to sign into an existing account or create a new one.

Authorised school leads control whether student single sign-on is enabled and which school email domains are approved.

Conventional TeachEdge account access remains available.

Yes. Teachers can use manual and CSV-based student setup as well as class-code joining.

The student-management tools support maintaining the class roster and reviewing joining activity.

Yes. Teachers can allow second attempts.

The original response and feedback are retained alongside the revised version, and teachers can see changes between attempts. This helps teachers review how students have responded to feedback.

Yes. Teachers can require students to confirm that they have read their feedback. Students can also add comments that are visible to the teacher.

Acknowledgement records the student’s confirmation. Teachers can use follow-up work and second attempts to assess understanding and improvement.

Yes. TeachEdge provides class-level summaries that help teachers identify common strengths, gaps and misconceptions.

Teachers can use these summaries to plan reteaching, further explanation and follow-up tasks.

Yes. TeachEdge retains assessment records so teachers can review an individual student’s performance over time.

These records can support identifying recurring difficulties, planning targeted practice and preparing reports.

Yes. TeachEdge includes scaffolded response-planning support, and teachers can assign tasks to selected students.

Teachers can use assessment evidence to decide who needs additional structure, further practice or a different follow-up task.

Yes. Teachers can generate reports for individual students using assessment evidence from a teacher-selected time period.

This helps bring relevant information together for parents’ evenings and other progress discussions.

Yes. Teachers can print individual feedback and generate printable feedback packs for a class.

Quick Mark also supports printable output, allowing teachers to use its feedback on paper.

TeachEdge helps reduce assessment workload, while also supporting clearer feedback and more informed follow-up.

Class insights, second attempts and progress records help teachers decide what to teach next and review how students respond to feedback.

Teachers set a topic, which can be broad or focused on a particular area.

Students begin with a short multiple-choice baseline check, followed by a guided conversation. The tutor uses questions and prompts to help students explain ideas, develop understanding and address misconceptions.

Yes. Teachers can review full tutoring transcripts and summaries of an individual student’s understanding and misconceptions.

Class-level summaries help teachers identify shared gaps and plan further teaching.

The tutor is designed to guide students through questions, explanations and prompts so they develop their own understanding.

Teachers can review the conversations to see how students engaged with the topic and where they need further support.

Yes. Exam Mode can prevent students from pasting in pre-written text and record how long they spend on a task.

These controls support exam-style practice. They do not, by themselves, prove authorship or establish that no external assistance was used.

Yes. Teachers can use TeachEdge for exam-style questions and timed practice, including Exam Mode.

Class Marking allows teachers to control feedback release. Teachers can also use Exam Script Marking for scanned handwritten responses and review the draft results before relying on them.

Credits cover AI tasks such as marking, feedback, tutoring and related processing.

Usage varies by task. Shorter text responses can use less credit than longer or image-based work. TeachEdge shows the credits used for individual tasks and your remaining balance.

For more information, see our credits calculation page.

The default maximum charges per marked response are:

• **1 credit** when both the question and response are text-only.
• **2.5 credits** when either the question or response includes image-based material, including handwriting.

These caps limit the credit cost of marking a response. They do not limit the mark available or the amount of feedback provided. A response can cost less than the maximum.

Any agreed licence-specific arrangements take precedence. These are marking caps and do not set a universal maximum for other tools such as tutoring or question generation.

Yes. TeachEdge shows the credits used when an AI task is completed, including marking. You can also see your remaining credit balance.

Yes. App Leads can use Credit Usage Overview to review aggregate school and department usage for budgeting and credit allocation.

These summaries do not expose student answers, prompts, generated feedback, uploaded files or tutoring messages, and do not provide teacher-by-teacher breakdowns.

Individual users can also see the credit cost of their own tasks.

TeachEdge was founded by Gary Roebuck, a former Head of Economics and former senior economic adviser to the UK government.

TeachEdge is independently run.

Schools can review TeachEdge’s published privacy policy and data-security information for details of how data is handled and protected.

The child-friendly privacy policy explains data use in language intended for younger users. Schools can contact TeachEdge with questions about their requirements.

Schools can review TeachEdge’s privacy policy, data-security information, terms and child-friendly privacy policy.

If your school has a supplier questionnaire or specific questions about using TeachEdge, contact us with the requirements.

Yes. Teachers and schools should ensure that the materials they upload and use are appropriate and that their use follows school policies and applicable permissions.

TeachEdge provides further guidance in its copyright FAQs.