The desk's extra tools, reports and PDFs
Bulk actions, the comment bank, exact markers, marking points, the report with its class and student PDFs, and the marking allowance.
8 steps about 5 min Teachers
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Step 1: Act on many students at once
Where: The desk → tick rows → the bar at the bottom
Release, hold, return, extend by a number of days, mark again, add a comment or excuse, for every ticked student in one press. Each one is logged as if you had done it alone. Excuse and extend also reach students who have not started.
Step 2: Use the comment bank
Where: The desk → a remark → Choose a saved comment, or Keep this comment
Up to 120 saved comments, ranked by the question's topic. Under Shortcut keys give one a key and press Alt + that key while the list is open. The bank is yours on every class.
Step 3: Mark with the exact markers
Where: The desk → Exact markers
Binary arithmetic, conversions and other calculable parts are checked digit by digit, free of charge, on held papers. Each run is logged.
Step 4: Fix a marking point after hand-ins
Where: The desk → a question of your own → Marking points
Your own questions only, never a past-paper question or a rule-marked quiz. Both versions go in the log, and Mark again with the new scheme re-marks the held work.
Step 5: Check the extremes
Where: The desk → the chip Check the extremes
The very highest and lowest marks come after the parts that need your eye, so a lucky or an unlucky script gets a second look before release.
Step 6: Read the report
Where: The desk → Report; the class → Marks → Gradebook
Mean, median, quartiles and ten bands; facility and discrimination for every question and part; topics, assessment objectives and the weakest syllabus bullets; each student by topic; a quiz's distractor table. Held marks are counted and said so.
Step 7: Download the PDFs
Where: Gradebook → Class report PDF; a student's row → PDF
Released marks only, on the site's letterhead, so you may hand them out. Never a predicted grade. The gradebook's CSV is beside them.
Step 8: When the allowance runs low
Where: The console → the licence strip; the desk → the banner
Each licence has a monthly AskZ marking pool. At 90 percent the strip warns you; when it is used up, new hand-ins wait and the desk offers Ask for more in one press, or save your own AI key under Service keys. The desk's cost line is your own AI spend, never a price, and no student sees it.
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