Closed testing for educators
MarkCTRL uses your rubric or answer key to prepare criterion-by-criterion scores, evidence-linked feedback, and reviewable drafts. Nothing reaches a student until you approve it.
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Essay 3 · The Great Gatsby
Gatsby’s green light works less like a symbol of hope and more like a measuring stick.1 Fitzgerald keeps putting distance in the sentence, across the bay and at the end of the dock,2 so the reader feels the gap before Gatsby admits it. By chapter five the light has gone dim3, which shows the dream only survives while it stays out of reach.
Thesis4/4
Clear, arguable, and held through every paragraph.
Evidence3/4
Accurate paraphrase. Quote the line so the reader hears Fitzgerald, not just you.
Low confidence, check this one
Analysis4/4
You explain what the dimming light means, not only that it happens.
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The product
Five views of the interface: grading a paper, structuring a rubric, reviewing drafts, releasing feedback, and the dashboard that ties them together.
Grade 11 English · Maya R. · submitted 9:04 AM
Submission
Gatsby’s green light works less like a symbol of hope and more like a measuring stick. Fitzgerald keeps putting distance in the sentence, across the bay and at the end of the dock, so the reader feels the gap before Gatsby admits it. By chapter five the light has gone dim, which shows the dream only survives while it stays out of reach.
Cited for criterion 2. Every mark points back to the exact words on the page.
Against your rubric
15 / 16Comment to Maya
Your reading of the green light is genuinely your own, and the thesis holds across all three body paragraphs. Where you lose marks is evidence: paragraph two leans on summary where a short quotation would have done the work for you.
An illustration of the MarkCTRL interface. Sample work and names are fictional.
How it works
Three stages. MarkCTRL does the reading in the middle one. The first and the last belong to you.
Step 1: Before the class set
Hand over the rubric you already wrote. If all you have is an answer key, that works too.
Step 2: While it grades
Each submission is evaluated criterion by criterion against the same configured standard.
Step 3: After it grades
Drafts wait in a queue. Change a mark, rewrite a line and approve. Nothing releases until you do.
Inside the system
Four parts do the work. Each one is shown here on a sample paper, in the state you would find it.
Rubrics
A criterion on its own is just a label. MarkCTRL adds editable full-mark and partial-mark anchors so each submission is compared with the same configured guidance.
Evidence
No mark arrives without a receipt. Each deduction carries the quotation it came from, what went wrong in it, and what the stronger version would have said.
Confidence
A grader that never hesitates is a grader you cannot trust. Close calls, unreadable handwriting and answers sitting between two bands all get flagged instead of quietly averaged.
The gate
Every score and comment lands in a review queue first. Change a mark, rewrite a line, approve. Until you do, the student sees nothing at all.
Sample feedback. Every comment is tied to a rubric criterion.
Everything else a class set needs
The administration around grading takes time too. These are the pieces that keep it out of your evening.
Courses, assignments and students stay separate, so one class set never bleeds into another.
Share one invite code. Students add themselves to the course instead of you keying in a roster.
Quick assessment can structure an answer key into editable criteria when no rubric is supplied.
Show grades the way your school reports them, without redoing the rubric.
Find courses, assignments and students across your visible course data.
See review counts, submitted work, recent results, upcoming assignments and course load in one place.
The rules it works by
Numbers worth stating are the ones you can check. Every line below can be confirmed inside the product.
Report card
MarkCTRL, closed testing
| Measure | Value | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Ways to start | 2 | A full rubric, or an answer key on its own. |
| Marking intensity levels | 3 | Lenient, standard or strict in Quick assessment. |
| Grade formats | 3 | Points, percentages or letters, without redoing the rubric. |
| Grades released unreviewed | 0 | Every draft passes through you before a student sees it. |
Security
Access is gated on a live session. The API and production page add security headers, and course data is checked against the signed-in account.
Every page behind the information site checks a live session before it renders. No session, no data.
API responses add HSTS. Production page policy upgrades insecure requests and restricts script and frame sources.
A strict content security policy ships with every request, blocking injected scripts and third-party frames.
Course, assignment and feedback endpoints verify the signed-in user before returning data.
Questions
Anything not answered here is easiest to judge inside the product. Get testing access
A grading and feedback platform for teaching staff. You give it a rubric or an answer key, it grades a class set against that standard, and you review every result before anything reaches a student.
No. Quick assessment can structure an answer key into editable criteria when no rubric is supplied.
Criterion by criterion, not as one overall impression. For each criterion it weighs the response against your full-marks and partial-marks anchors, then records what was earned and what was lost.
Yes. Nothing releases automatically. Every draft sits in a review queue where you can change scores and comments before approval.
Each deduction carries the exact span it came from, what went wrong in it, and what a stronger answer would have said. Students get a reason attached to a sentence, not a bare number.
It says so rather than guessing. Close calls are flagged as low confidence, pages it struggled to read come back with a legibility note, and anything it cannot grade fairly is handed back for manual marking.
Yes. Quick assessment includes lenient, standard and strict marking intensity settings.
Yes. Courses, assignments and students are kept separate, so grading one class set never touches another. Students join a course with an invite code rather than you keying in a roster.
It reads scanned and photographed submissions, and tells you when a page was hard to make out instead of quietly marking a guess.
They are stored under your account and used in the grading workflow you start. Signed-in access and ownership checks protect course, assignment and feedback endpoints.
MarkCTRL is in closed testing. Enter your email in the testing access form, then create one educator workspace for your tester account.
For educator and school testing
Create a closed-test educator workspace, add a course and sample papers, then compare every draft against your rubric before anything is released.
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