The Marking App

Notes

A rich-text area for marking guides, rubric criteria, and session notes.

What notes are for

The notes area sits on the right side of every page. Use it to store the marking guide, grade boundaries, rubric criteria, or observations from a marking session. Notes are visible to everyone with access to the page - viewers can read them, editors and admins can edit them.

Editing notes

Notes open in read-only mode by default. Click Edit to enter edit mode, where a formatting toolbar becomes available. The toolbar supports bold, italic, underline, headings, bullet and numbered lists, blockquotes, code blocks, and tables.

When you're done, click Save to commit your changes, or Discard to abandon them and return to the last saved state.

Tip: Paste the assessment marking guide directly into the notes area. That way your criteria are always visible alongside the comment bank while marking.

Slash commands

While editing, type / to open the command palette. Start typing to filter the list. Available commands:

  • Bold - wrap selection or toggle bold at cursor.

  • Italic

  • Underline

  • Strikethrough

  • Inline code - format a word or phrase as monospace.

  • Heading 1 / 2 / 3

  • Bullet list

  • Numbered list

  • Quote - block quotation.

  • Code block - multi-line code or preformatted text.

  • Comment link - insert a linked chip that points to a comment in the bank (see below).

  • Table - insert a 3×3 table.

  • Add row / Add column - extend the current table.

  • Delete row / Delete column / Delete table

Linking to comments

You can reference a comment from the bank inside your notes. While editing, type [ and start typing a comment's text to search for it. Select the comment from the dropdown and a linked chip will be inserted. Clicking the chip in read mode jumps to that comment in the bank.

The same is available via the slash command: type /comment link to open the search without the [ shortcut.

Last updated May 2026