The Sunday‑night backlog.
A class set means hours scanning, sorting, typing comments, then formatting them all over again for parents and pupils.
4–6 hrs per set, often unpaid.
Mark a whole class
in the time it used to
take to mark one essay.
You stay in charge of the grade, the judgement, and what each pupil sees. Feedback Flow handles the drafting, formatting, and collation, then surfaces the patterns and next steps in seconds.
- Teacher-approved feedback only
- Built for whole class sets
- UK data hosting
- GDPR compliant
Original
Transcription
Shakespeare presents Macbeth as a tragic figure whose ambition "o'erleaps itself"…
The dagger soliloquy reveals an unravelling psyche, foreshadowing his moral collapse.
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Less time per class set, on average*
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More feedback per pupil, in the same window
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Comments sent without your approval
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Data hosted & processed in the UK
*Based on internal benchmarks for handwritten essay marking against typical manual workflows. Your mileage will vary by subject and class size.
The problem
Marking shouldn't cost you your weekend.
Teachers don't need another tool that bolts on. You need the bottleneck removed — without handing pupils' feedback over to a black box.
Quality drift by essay 18.
By the end of the pile, comments shorten, feedback gets thinner, and pupils don't get the same quality of response as those marked first.
Pupil 1 vs Pupil 28 — different teacher.
One streamlined workflow.
Bring scanning, transcription, drafting, formatting, and analysis into one flow so teachers can give more feedback, with more consistency, and see class-level insight in seconds.
Better feedback volume, stronger consistency, faster insight.
How it works
Three steps from paper to polished feedback.
The workflow mirrors what teachers already do — but the slow handoffs between tools are gone.
01
~ 2 min
Upload & auto‑organise.
Drop a stack of scans or PDFs. Feedback Flow groups them by class, matches cover sheets and pulls the responses into one workspace.
11A_essays.pdf
Cover sheets matched
28 responses ready
02
~ 30 sec / pupil
Review the AI reading.
Original handwriting on the left, accurate transcription on the right. Tap to fix anything; the AI drafts feedback against your mark scheme as you go.
Original handwriting
AI transcription
Mark scheme matched
03
~ 1 click
Approve & share.
Edit the wording, lock in the mark, and export to PDF, Word, your markbook or the secure pupil portal — individually or as a class.
PDF · Word · Text
Markbook synced
Pupil portal live
Inside the workspace
Every tool you'd open during marking — in one place.
Built around real marking pressure points, not a generic feature list.
Side‑by‑side review
The original. The transcription. Your feedback. One screen.
Stop alt‑tabbing between scans, PDFs, Word docs and your markbook. Refine transcription, draft comments and check evidence from the page without leaving the workspace.
- One‑tap fix on misread handwriting
- Collapsible feedback sections
- Keyboard shortcuts to fly through a class set
Class analytics
Turn marked work into immediate teaching insight.
See attainment patterns, recurring misconceptions, and follow-up priorities fast enough to shape the next lesson, intervention, or departmental conversation.
Mark schemes & rubrics
Marks justified against your scheme — every time.
Bring your AQA, Edexcel, OCR, IB or in‑house rubric. The AI cites which criteria each mark hits, so consistency is built in.
Pupil portal
Send feedback that pupils actually open.
A clean, ad‑free portal where pupils see only what you've approved — typed transcription, your comments, target, model answer. Access controlled by you, hosted on UK infrastructure.
- Per‑pupil access codes
- Toggle what's visible
- No pupil accounts required
Maths workspace
Full paper marking, with moderation built in.
Map an entire exam paper, mark question by question, and keep method marks, accuracy marks, and moderation decisions aligned across a department.
Reusable libraries
Stop rewriting the same comment.
Save your best feedback structures, model answers and misconception responses. Re‑use them across classes and years.
Why teachers trust it
AI that helps you mark — not one that marks for you.
Built on a simple principle: your professional judgement is the asset. We just remove everything else slowing it down.
You stay in control.
Nothing reaches a pupil without you tapping Approve. Every comment, every mark, every grade is a teacher's call.
Pupil data stays in the UK.
Hosted in the UK, encrypted in transit and at rest, never used to train external models. GDPR‑compliant and ready for school IT review.
Built by teachers.
Designed inside real classrooms, against real exam boards, on real Sunday‑night marking piles. If a feature doesn't help a teacher, it doesn't ship.
Across your timetable
One consistent marking workflow across the whole curriculum.
Give departments, schools, and trusts a shared feedback standard across subjects, while still preserving the rubric and workflow each team needs.
Essays, language analysis and creative writing.
Transcribe handwritten essays, mark against AQA, Edexcel, OCR or IB rubrics, and feed back AO‑by‑AO with quoted evidence from the pupil's own work.
- AO1 / AO2 / AO3 mark breakdown
- Quotation matching from the original page
- Reusable feedback bank for common issues
Best fit:
GCSE & A‑level English Lit / Lang
Exam papers, exercise books, full working.
Auto‑map answer regions from a blank paper, then mark per question with a built‑in maths symbol palette and method/accuracy rubric.
- Region‑based marking from blank papers
- Maths symbol palette (Σ ∫ √ π θ ≤ …)
- Method marks tracked separately
Best fit:
KS3 → A‑level Maths, Further Maths
Six‑markers, practicals, structured exam questions.
Mark long‑answer responses against the indicative content list, flag missed terminology, and build a class‑level misconception map for the next lesson.
- Indicative content checking
- Required‑practical write‑up support
- Misconception heat‑map per topic
Best fit:
GCSE / A‑level Bio, Chem, Physics
Source analysis, essays, structured responses.
From "How useful is Source A…" to twelve‑mark essays, build your own rubric and let Feedback Flow draft feedback that cites the response.
- Source / interpretation question support
- Custom rubrics per question type
- Comparative feedback across the set
Best fit:
History, Geography, RS, Politics
Exercise books, extended writing, photo‑capture.
Snap a stack of books, group them by class, and generate child‑friendly feedback you can shape and stick straight in the book.
- Photo capture with auto‑sort
- Reading‑age‑aware feedback drafts
- Stickers / next‑step prompts ready to print
Best fit:
KS1 & KS2 — extended writing, topic books
Compare
Why not just paste it into ChatGPT?
Generic chatbots can write feedback. They can't read 28 scans, sort by class, hold your mark scheme, run a markbook or share securely with pupils.
Pen & paper
Generic AI chatbot
Feedback Flow
Reads handwritten scans
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Sometimes
✓
Aligned to your mark scheme
✓
If you paste it
✓
Whole‑class organisation
—
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✓
Markbook + analytics
Spreadsheet
—
✓
Secure pupil portal
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✓
UK data hosting · not used to train models
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Often not
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Average time per class set of 28
4h 20m
2h 10m
47 min
From the staffroom
What the first class set should feel like.
A full set of essays can move from scanned scripts to teacher-approved feedback in one focused marking session.
The mark scheme, judgement, and final feedback stay with the teacher while the slow typing and formatting are reduced.
Every pupil can receive detailed, mark-scheme-aligned feedback, even at the end of a long class set.
FAQ
The questions teachers (and SLT) ask first.
Short answers, grounded in how the product actually works today.
No. The AI handles transcription, organisation and a first draft of feedback against your mark scheme. You review, edit, and decide what reaches each pupil. Nothing is sent without you tapping Approve.
Pupil work and feedback are stored on UK infrastructure, encrypted in transit and at rest, and never used to train external AI models. We can supply a Data Processing Agreement and answer school IT questions directly — just get in touch.
PDF scans and photographs of handwritten or typed work all fit the workflow. The AI transcribes both — and crucially, you see the original beside the transcription so misreads take a tap to fix.
Yes. Bring AQA, Edexcel, OCR, IB, your department's in‑house mark scheme — or build a rubric from scratch. Feedback structures (Strengths / Targets / Model / Mark) are configurable per subject and reusable across classes.
Yes. Feedback Flow can support individual teachers, departments, and wider school rollout. If you are planning a department or trust setup, get in touch and we can talk through implementation, IT, GDPR, and the right workflow for your team.
Most do. We provide a DPIA‑ready summary, a Data Processing Agreement, and answers to the standard SLT/DPO questions (data location, retention, training data, sub‑processors). Email daniel@feedbackflow.ai and we'll send the pack.
Both — but it really shines on whole class sets. The class workspace, markbook, status tracking and bulk export are built for the realities of marking a stack of 28, not just one piece of work.
Ready to try it?
Start your next class set in Feedback Flow.
Upload, review, approve, send. Get your evening back. Keep your standards.
- Teacher-approved output only
- Built for classes, not one-off demos
- UK-hosted and GDPR compliant