Notes from a teacher who marks too many essays, and built a tool about it.
Faculty moderation aligns standards on the sample you moderated. It doesn't stop the drift happening inside a marker's pile across 30 essays at 11pm. A NSW Head Teacher on what AITSL Standard 5.3 actually requires.
A teacher's guide to using MarkMate's AI detection report responsibly. Four risk categories, how to read the evidence, what to do with a high-risk flag, and where the limits sit.
A NSW Head Teacher tests MarkMate against her own hand-marked essays. Three things MarkMate caught, three things she caught, and what the comparison says about marker fatigue.
A NSW Head Teacher walks through the actual workflow of batch-marking 30 Year 12 Ancient History essays in MarkMate. Includes setup time, sanity checks, and what the tool didn't do.