Share, Collaborate, Back Up
This update focuses on one thing: making it easier to work with your department. Export your mark schemes for a colleague, move your marking between home and school, and never worry about losing data again.
Mark at Home, Bring It to School
Export a class with all its marks and comments, email the file to yourself or save it to your school cloud, keep marking at home, then import it back the next morning. No special accounts, no syncing headaches.
Pick a class to export. Choose which class you want to take with you.
Choose which projects to include. Only export what you need — one project or all of them.
Clear privacy summary. The export shows exactly what's included — student names and marks. Designed for transferring between your own computers, not for sharing online.
Import with drag and drop. Bring a class file back in by dropping it straight into the app. Your marks, comments and grades are all there.
Share Mark Schemes With Your Department
Spent time building a mark scheme with all the right descriptors and comments? Export it and share it with colleagues. They get the same bands, descriptors and comment bank — but no student data. Consistent marking across your department without everyone having to build the same thing from scratch.
GDPR-compliant sharing. Project exports include your mark scheme descriptors and comment banks only. No student names, no marks, no personal data. Email it to a colleague, drop it on the school shared drive, or post it online.
One click to import. A colleague sends you their project file — drop it in, and you've got their mark scheme and comment bank ready to use with your own classes.
Why this matters for departments
Consistency
Everyone marks against the same descriptors. Students get the same language and expectations regardless of which teacher they have.
Save time
One person builds the mark scheme once. The rest of the department imports it in seconds instead of spending an evening typing the same descriptors.
Moderation-ready
When everyone uses the same mark scheme, moderation meetings actually compare like for like. Less arguing about what "good" means.
Never Lose a Year's Marking
Getting a new laptop? Switching classrooms? One backup file saves everything — all your classes, projects, marks and comments. Restore it on any machine and carry on where you left off.
One-click backup
Hit "Create Backup Now" and you get a single file with everything in it. Save it to a USB, your school drive, wherever you keep important things.
Restore any time
New computer? Click restore, pick your backup file, and you're back to exactly where you were. All your classes, all your projects, all your marks.
Cleaner, Faster Interface
The whole interface has been tidied up. Managing classes and editing mark schemes is quicker and easier to navigate, especially if you've got several classes on the go at once.
Class management. See all your students, assign projects, paste in a class list, sort alphabetically. Everything in one place.
Mark scheme editing. Add bands, write descriptors, assign projects to multiple classes. The layout makes it easy to see your whole mark scheme at a glance.
The main marking view. Select a student, click the descriptors that apply, add comments if you want to, and move on. The grade calculates automatically from the bands you've selected.
Try It on Your Next Unit
Download Marksmith Pro and see if it fits the way your department works. Every feature is included, completely free.