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What's New

New updates and improvements to GradeOrbit.

1.128.0

Pick up your mark scheme where you left off

If you started uploading a mark scheme and didn’t finish, the getting-started checklist on your dashboard now takes you back to it.

Improvements

  • Resume your draft: step 1 of the checklist opens your most recent unfinished mark scheme at the step you reached, instead of starting a new one.
1.120.1

Lesson PowerPoints keep every slide

Lesson PowerPoints made without a reference PowerPoint no longer lose slides along the way. Every slide now arrives with its content.

Improvements

  • Fixed: a slide could arrive missing its content, most often a key term without its definition, and was left out, so a 10-slide deck came back with 8 or 9 slides.
  • Longer decks: ask for 11 slides or more and you now always get at least 11 (it was 10).
1.120.0

Your Google profile picture

If you sign in with Google, your profile picture now shows on your account button and next to your name wherever colleagues see you.

Improvements

  • On your account button: top right of every page, and next to Account in the menu on your phone.
  • Next to your colleagues: on the Teachers page, join requests, class teachers, usage and team members, so you can spot people at a glance.
  • Nothing to set up: it uses the picture on your Google account. Change it there and it updates the next time you sign in. Pupils never get one.
1.119.0

Compare GradeOrbit with other marking tools

Weighing up AI marking tools? New comparison pages put GradeOrbit side by side with other tools, with every claim about them linked to where they say it.

Improvements

  • What a script costs: see the price of one student’s script at 2, 6, 24 and 40 pages, wherever a tool publishes enough to work it out.
  • Accuracy, side by side: our results against senior examiners next to whatever each tool publishes.
  • Honest about the differences: each page says where the other tool is strong and when it may suit you better.
  • Find them anywhere: under “Compare AI Marking Tools” in the footer of every page.
1.117.0

Join your school’s GradeOrbit account

Already using GradeOrbit on your own account, and your school has a school account? You can now ask to join it from your dashboard.

Improvements

  • Request access: if you signed up with your school email and your school has a GradeOrbit school account, your dashboard offers to ask your school’s admins for an invite. Your school only hears about it when you choose to ask.
  • Review in one click: school owners and admins get an email, open the request in GradeOrbit and send the invite with one button.
  • Keep your login: teachers who already have a GradeOrbit account now accept a school invite with their existing login instead of creating a new one.
1.116.0

One-tap mark quality feedback

Tell us whether a mark was spot on or off in a single tap, directly beneath the grade.

Improvements

  • One-tap rating: tap "Too low", "About right", or "Too high" right under the student’s grade on the Summary tab to immediately record your feedback.
  • Optional note: add a quick note on what was off without interrupting your workflow or navigation — saved automatically alongside your rating.
  • Quality monitoring: your feedback helps us monitor AI model accuracy across exam boards and subjects.
1.111.0

Faster essay marking that places answers like an examiner

Marking for essay and extended-answer subjects now runs on a faster AI model, and it decides levels the way exam-board examiners do.

Improvements

  • Faster: English, humanities and other non-maths papers come back sooner, with fewer long waits.
  • Strong answers get the marks they earn: an answer goes in the level its best, sustained work reaches. One slip or one thinner area moves the mark within that level instead of dropping it a whole level, and top marks no longer need a perfect answer.
  • Weaker answers are marked as before: mostly descriptive or very short answers stay in the lower levels.
  • Sharper feedback: comments point to specific moments in the answer and tie them to the mark scheme, with less general praise.
1.105.0

Maths grade shows every question again

The grade on a marked maths paper lists each question’s mark again, so it works as a quick review sheet.

Improvements

  • Question-by-question grade: the total stays at the top of a maths paper’s grade. Choose Show question marks to list every question with its mark, then click a question to see its parts, for example Q1a, Q1b and Q1c. Pupils see the same list on papers you release to them.
1.104.0

Mark scheme checks, and marks flagged for a second look

We now check your mark scheme before marking, tell you when work was marked against an older version, and point out marks worth checking.

Improvements

  • Unreadable mark schemes: if we can’t read a mark scheme you’ve uploaded, we tell you straight away and offer Try again or Upload again. We no longer save the raw scan text as your mark scheme, because it could include pupils’ names or marks.
  • Printed total checked: if the total printed on the mark scheme doesn’t match the question marks we found, we warn you before you mark.
  • One version per marking: every paper in a class, and every paper in one marking session, is marked against the same version of the mark scheme, even if the scheme is edited partway through.
  • Marked against an older version: if you change a mark scheme after marking, papers marked against the older version are labelled, and you can re-mark just those. Nothing is re-marked until you choose to.
  • Exam board chosen once: if your mark scheme names an exam board, your assessment uses it, so you no longer choose the board twice. Marking always uses the mark scheme’s board when it has one.
  • Check this mark: when a question’s comment doesn’t match its mark, for example “full marks” on a question scored 0, the question is flagged with the reason. The mark is never changed for you.
  • Flags clear when you act: approving a question or changing its mark clears its flag for good, and the Teaching Assistant no longer mentions it.
1.104.0

Regenerate feedback keeps the maths breakdown

Regenerating feedback on a maths paper now keeps every question’s mark points.

Improvements

  • Regenerate feedback on maths: the question-by-question breakdown and mark points stay, and marks are worked out the same way as the first marking.