How GradeOrbit marksA grade you can actually explain.
Marked against your criteria, with the working shown — no black box, no auto-grading. You approve every grade.
Criteria in, evidence out
Every mark traces back to a rule you set. That is the whole design — the tool assists, it never overrules you.
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Your criteria set the rules
Pick the qualification, exam board, and upload your mark scheme. Add notes, a word-count target, anything you would tell a colleague marking for you.
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The AI reads every page
Handwritten or typed, uploaded or scanned with your phone. Each page is transcribed and then marked strictly against your rubric — never a vibe.
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You get an explainable grade
A grade you can interrogate: pinpointed feedback on essays, gate-by-gate marks on maths. Approve it, adjust it, or ask why. The decision stays yours.
One tool, two kinds of marking
Essays and maths are graded differently — because they should be. Switch between them.
Qualitative, and pinpointed
For essays, extended answers, and coursework, GradeOrbit reads the response against your rubric and returns categorised feedback tied to the exact spot on the page — praise, next steps, and spelling — plus a full transcription of the handwriting. This is the real review screen: pick a student, or click a highlight on the page.
AI Review
4 students
In "A Christmas Carol", Dickens presents the idea of redemption through Scrooge. Dickens allows the reader to envision a change in attitude through this charactor by highlighting his refusal to change. Soon turned into many actions, this is percieved at the beginning of the novel and this extract. This is when Marley warns Scrooge to listen to him through the quotes "I wear the chains I forged in life" and "Hear me!". The use of punctuation highlights a sence of urgency towards the situation through the exclamation mark. The order "Hear me" tells the reader that Scrooge needs to change and how Dickens uses the figure of his best friend to influnce Scrooge. Furthermore, the ghost of Marley acts as a catalyst for Scrooge's transformation. His appearance is described as terrifying, wrapped in chains that symbolise the consequences of greed and selfishness. Through this encounter, Dickens suggests that it is never too late for reedmption, a message that would have resonated deeply with his Victorian audience who valued charity and moral responsibility.
Student 1
Detailed Feedback
Several spelling errors: "charactor" should be "character", "percieved" should be "perceived", and "sence" should be "sense". Always proofread your work carefully.
Strong use of embedded quotations — "I wear the chains I forged in life" is well chosen and directly supports your argument about Marley's warning.
Excellent identification of the exclamation mark as a device to create urgency. This shows clear engagement with Dickens' language methods.
"influnce" should be "influence" and "reedmption" should be "redemption". Take care with commonly misspelled words — keeping a personal spelling log can help.
Strong contextual awareness — linking Dickens' message to Victorian values of charity and moral responsibility shows excellent understanding of the social context of the novel.
- Feedback pinned to the sentence it refers to, not dumped at the end.
- Graded on your mark scheme — GCSE, A-Level, KS3, BTEC, Functional Skills.
- Spelling flagged, and counted only if your criteria score it.
AI Review
4 students
1 Simplify 5a + 3a − 2a
= 6a
2 (a) Solve 3x + 5 = 20
3x = 20 − 5
3x = 15
x = 5
2 (b) Expand and simplify (x + 3)(x − 2)
= x² + 3x − 2x − 6
3 Work out 2⁄3 + 1⁄4
= 8⁄12 + 3⁄12
= 11⁄12
4 Find 15% of £240
10% = 24
5% = 12
= £36
Student 1
Question breakdown
- B16a
Like terms collected correctly.
- M1Rearranges to 3x = 15
- A1x = 5
Correct method and final answer.
- M1Expands all four terms: x² + 3x − 2x − 6
- A1Not simplified to x² + x − 6
Method mark awarded for a complete expansion; the answer mark is withheld because the like terms were never collected.
- M1Common denominator of 12
- M18⁄12 + 3⁄12
- A111⁄12
Every step shown and correct.
- M1Builds 15% from 10% = 24 and 5% = 12
- A1£36
A sound non-calculator route, and the units are given.
- Method (M) and answer (A) marks awarded independently.
- Partial credit — no all-or-nothing on multi-step questions.
- A ✓ / ✗ against every gate, with the working that earned it.
Same marking. Two ways to run it.
The grading engine is identical. What changes is how student work is handled — and that is a deliberate choice, not a footnote.
Never saved to our servers
- Redact names before anything is sent — the black boxes are burnt in, so the original never leaves your device.
- We never save student work to our database. It’s processed by Google Gemini under a zero-retention agreement, then gone from our side.
- The only copy that persists is a redacted one in your own browser — so you can pick up an interrupted marking session. It never reaches us.
- “Student 1”, “Student 2” — we never ask for or keep a real name.
Kept safely, under your DPA
- Marked work is retained for a window you set — so you can revisit any pupil’s paper for appeals or moderation.
- Real names and classes, matched to your roster. Covered by a signed Data Processing Agreement.
- Whole-cohort analytics and a per-pupil history, because the data is there by design.
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