Getting Started with
GradeOrbit
Follow these steps to set up your account and start marking student work with AI assistance.
Upload Your Marking Criteria
Marking criteria are the rubrics or mark schemes from your exam board — the standards you grade against. In GradeOrbit, criteria are reusable: upload them once and apply them to any assessment at the same qualification level.
- Upload photos of your marking criteria pages, or type them in manually
- Supports KS3, GCSE, and A-Level qualification levels
- Works with AQA, Edexcel, OCR, Eduqas, and WJEC exam boards
- Criteria are saved to your account and reusable across assessments
- Google Cloud Vision OCR automatically extracts text from uploaded images
Create an Assessment
An assessment represents one class assignment — for example, "Year 10 Macbeth Essay" or "GCSE Geography Fieldwork Report". You configure it once, then mark as many students as you need.
- Give your assessment a name and select the qualification level and exam board
- Optionally upload reference texts — the source materials students were working from
- Select your saved marking criteria to grade against
- Choose your AI model: Faster (Flash) for speed, or Smarter (Pro) for depth
Upload & Mark Student Work
Upload photos of student work and submit them for AI analysis. GradeOrbit supports multi-page documents and gives you tools to protect student privacy before anything is processed.
- Upload from your desktop, or scan with your phone via QR code pairing
- Support for multi-page documents — add as many pages as needed per student
- Draw black boxes to redact any personal information before AI processing
- Students are identified anonymously as "Student 1", "Student 2", etc.
- We never save uploaded student work — images are processed and discarded
Review AI Feedback
The AI analyses each student's work against your marking criteria and provides structured feedback. You review everything and make the final call — GradeOrbit assists, you decide.
- Receive a suggested grade aligned to your marking criteria and exam board
- Full transcription of handwritten student work, making it searchable
- Categorised feedback: positive (green) and constructive (amber)
- Feedback pinpointed to exact locations in student work with bounding boxes
- Mark as many students as needed using the same assessment setup
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about using GradeOrbit.
No. We never save uploaded student work to our database or any other service. Images are processed for AI analysis and then discarded. Your students' work is never stored.
Anonymously. Students are labelled as "Student 1", "Student 2", and so on. GradeOrbit never attempts to detect, store, or process student names or personal information.
GradeOrbit supports AQA, Edexcel, OCR, Eduqas, and WJEC across KS3, GCSE, and A-Level qualification levels. Marking criteria and grading are aligned to each board's standards.
GradeOrbit uses a credit-based system. Every new account starts with 20 free credits — no credit card required. The Faster model costs 1 credit per student, while the Smarter model costs 4 credits.
View pricing detailsYes! From the marking page on your desktop, scan the QR code with your phone. Your phone becomes a document scanner via WebRTC — photos transfer instantly to your desktop with no app to install.
Ready to start?
Create a free account and start marking with 20 free credits. No credit card required.