How it works
A review-first grading workflow.
Markscanner turns a stack of scanned handwritten papers into reviewed grades and printable student feedback. Here’s what happens end to end.
Starting point
Start with a stack of scanned papers
You scan the class set the way you already do — photocopier, phone camera, document scanner, whatever produces a readable PDF or set of images. No custom paper, no QR codes, no special booklet. The goal is to fit into the workflow you already have, not replace it.
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Step 1
Upload a scanned PDF or images
Drop in the full class set in one upload. Markscanner accepts multi-page PDFs and batches of images, and it doesn’t mind if some students wrote on two pages and some on five.
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Step 2
Pages, questions, and students get organised
Markscanner groups the pages that belong to each student, identifies where each question starts, and matches the submission against your class roster. If a name is hard to read or a page is out of place, it surfaces that on a verification screen instead of guessing silently.
If you run two versions of a test to discourage copying, Markscanner handles that too — Version A and Version B are tracked per submission so each student is graded against the paper they actually wrote. - 03
Step 3
Draft marks and per-question comments
Each answer is compared against your rubric or answer key. Partial marks are applied on sub-questions, so a student who sets up the problem correctly but slips on arithmetic doesn’t lose the whole question. Different valid forms — factored vs. expanded, mixed number vs. improper fraction, equivalent equations — are treated as equivalent where the rubric allows it.
Short per-question comments are drafted alongside the marks so that when you approve, there’s already something useful for the student to read. - 04
Step 4
Uncertain answers get flagged
Messy handwriting, unusual approaches, and low-confidence results are called out so you see them first. The point is to spend your time on the answers that actually need a human decision — not to re-read every paper from the top.
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Step 5
You review, adjust, and approve
Every mark and comment is editable. You can change a grade, rewrite a comment in your own voice, or regrade a single submission if you want a fresh draft. Nothing is final until you approve it.
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Step 6
Print a one-page feedback sheet per student
Once you’re happy, Markscanner generates a clean, printable one-page feedback sheet for each student: their grade, per-question comments, strengths, and next steps. Staple it to the front of the returned paper and you’ve just given every student the kind of written feedback most teachers only have time to give a few.
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Step 7
Export grades to your gradebook
Download a CSV of the class results with per-student scores that you can drop into whatever gradebook or SIS you already use. No proprietary integration to set up, no data lock-in.
Beyond grading
Class insights and blank test generation
Per-question class performance
Because every question gets marked the same way, the class data is actually comparable across students. Markscanner surfaces per-question class performance and common errors so you can see at a glance what to reteach tomorrow.
Blank test generation
When you need a fresh test, Markscanner can also generate blank quizzes as printable vector PDFs — with an optional Version B variant to discourage copying — so you have a clean starting point for the next assessment.
Under the hood
A note on the technology
Markscanner uses vision-capable language models from more than one provider under the hood, chosen for their ability to read handwritten math. Student work is not used to train those models — the content is sent for grading and nothing else. You can pick which model to use in your account settings.
Ready to try it with your own class set?
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