Lead Writing Excellence
Empower your English department with data-driven solutions to standardise assessment, track student growth, and improve writing outcomes across all year levels.
Partnered with leading English faculties
Developed collaboratively with English department leaders
English Department Leadership Challenges
Leading an English department requires consistent assessment standards and clear visibility into student progress across all year levels.
Inconsistent Assessment Across Department
- Different standards used by different teachers
- Inconsistent feedback confuses students and parents
- Moderation difficulties across large departments
Limited Department-Wide Data
- No department trends visible across year levels
- Difficult to identify curriculum gaps and strengths
- Senior assessment preparation lacks systematic tracking
Department-Wide Excellence
Tools designed specifically for English department heads and coordinators
Department-Wide Standardisation
Consistent framework for assessment across all teachers. Same rubrics, skill categories, and feedback language department-wide.
Comprehensive Department Analytics
View writing skill development across all classes and year levels. Track departmental trends and year-on-year progress.
Senior Assessment Preparation
Systematic skill building from junior to senior years. Track development of writing capabilities needed for final examinations.
How Mark My Words Works
Mark My Words provides personalised feedback, tracks student writing progress and creates targeted interventions - and saves time doing it.
Upload Rubric and Define Skills
Start with your existing rubrics, then choose to target additional granular skills for more detailed feedback. We adapt to your school's assessment approach while offering deeper skill analysis.
- Upload your existing rubrics and assessment criteria
- Choose to add granular skills for detailed feedback
- Alignment with your curriculum standards
- Create school-wide consistency in writing assessment
Upload Work
Upload student writing in any format—handwritten or digital—and process entire class sets in minutes. Students can scan a QR code to submit work directly from their device.
- QR code access - students scan and submit instantly
- Support for photos, scans, PDFs, and digital text
- Advanced handwriting recognition technology
- Bulk upload entire class sets at once
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Generate Feedback & Interventions
Receive instant, detailed feedback on student writing and automatically generate personalised learning activities that target each student's specific needs.
- AI-powered analysis against 1,000+ writing skills
- Specific, actionable feedback that references actual writing
- One-click personalised learning interventions
- Teacher review and customisation of all feedback
Track Growth
Monitor writing development over time with comprehensive analytics that show individual student progress, class trends, and school-wide patterns to inform instruction.
- Longitudinal tracking from Year 1 to Year 12
- Visual growth charts for individual skills and overall writing
- Cohort analysis and comparison reporting
- Evidence-based insights for parent conferences and planning
Features designed for writing assessment
Everything you need to assess, track, and improve student writing with less marking.
Track writing progress across your entire school with customisable frameworks that match the systems you already have in place
Generate QR codes for your class - students scan to instantly access their upload portal from any device
Advanced AI processes handwritten work from photos - no scanning required
Add targeted comments that show students exactly how to improve their work
AI learns to your teaching style to deliver consistent, curriculum-aligned feedback
Keep using your school's rubrics while making assessment faster and more consistent
Trusted by schools across Australia
Join hundreds of schools already using Mark My Words to improve student writing.
Student Portal with QR Code Access
Students scan a QR code to instantly access their portal - no logins needed. They can submit handwritten work from their phone and receive feedback in seconds.
QR Code Access
Generate unique QR codes for your class. Students simply scan with their phone to instantly access their upload portal - no logins or URLs to remember.
Snap & Submit
Students snap photos of their handwritten work and upload them directly through their portal for instant AI evaluation and feedback.
Instant Feedback
Work is processed immediately - students receive personalised feedback on their writing within seconds of submission.
Ready to see it in action?
Book a demo to explore the student portal and discover how it transforms student engagement with writing assessment.
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Common questions from English faculty leaders.
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