What is an assessment (piece of work) in MarkMate

An assessment is any piece of work your class has done that you want to mark, such as a test, an essay, a homework task or a page of classwork. You set it up once for the class. Then you add each student's work, and MarkMate helps you mark it and write feedback.

What an assessment is made of

Section	What it's for	Do I need it?
Name	So you can find it later, for example "Macbeth essay" or "Fractions test"	Yes
Attach resource	Mark schemes from your Resources library	Optional, but strongly recommended
The brief	What students were asked to do, and the learning objective	Optional, but recommended
Feedback headings	The things you're marking, one heading per question or skill, each with a grade, a mark or feedback only	Optional, but this is where the marking happens
Context for marking	Your marking style (how feedback is written) and marking notes (anything special about this piece of work)	A marking style is always chosen; notes are optional

Good to know

• Assessments belong to one class. You'll find them on the class's Markbook tab.

• The AI also uses the subject and year group from your class settings, so make sure they're right.

• The more you tell MarkMate when you set up the assessment, the closer the AI's marking will be to your own