The Marking App
Give AI features the rubric, brief, and marking notes they need to match your assignment.
AI features like grading and rewrites work best when they know what good work looks like for your assignment. AI context is where you provide that background - the rubric, the assignment brief, style rules, and the things you care about as a marker. The more relevant context you add, the closer the AI's grades and suggestions match how you would mark.
Context can be set at two levels. A folder's context is shared by every page inside it, which is ideal for a rubric that applies to a whole course or assessment. A page's context adds guidance specific to that one piece of work.
Open any page or folder and click the Context button () in the top-right toolbar. A badge on the button shows how many pieces of context are currently active. On a page, the button toggles between the comment editor and the context panel; on a folder it toggles between the folder view and its context.
The free-text guidance box is for typing or pasting instructions directly. This text is sent to AI features exactly as written, so include the information a human marker would need to brief a colleague: rubric criteria, mark boundaries, the style guide (for example APA 7), and common mistakes you want flagged.
Tip: You don't need perfect prose. Short, specific notes - "British spelling is accepted", "penalise missing citations", "full marks require a counter-argument" - steer the AI more than long paragraphs.
Upload the documents you already have instead of retyping them. The Files card accepts PDF, DOCX, PNG, and JPG files. When you add a file its text is extracted automatically and stored as context for the AI - you'll see an Extracted badge once it's ready. Drag a file onto the upload area or click to browse, and remove a file at any time with the trash icon.
On a page, the Context sources card controls what is combined into the AI's view:
Folder context - inherit the rubric and guidance from the page's folder, so shared instructions don't have to be repeated on every page. Turn it off if a page should ignore its folder's context.
Page notes - include the page's own notes panel as context, useful when your marking guide already lives in the notes.
Folder context is set once and inherited everywhere. Put assignment-wide rubrics on the folder, and keep page context for the details that only apply to a single page.
The Active context panel on the right summarises exactly what the AI will see - which folder context is inherited, whether page notes are included, the free-text word count, and the number of files. Check it before marking to confirm the right context is switched on.
Changes to free-text guidance and context sources only take effect once you click Save context ; uploaded and removed files are saved immediately. The app warns you if you try to leave with unsaved changes. Update the context whenever the rubric or guidance changes, and future AI grades and rewrites will use the new information.
Last updated June 2026