Autumn-term pilot · UK universities

Marking feedback, at the speed you can say it.

Your markers talk through a piece of work the way they’d talk to a colleague. Markaloud transcribes it, sorts it against your rubric, and produces structured, consistent feedback — ready for the marker to approve. Nothing reaches a student until they do.

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Free for the autumn marking period · up to 20 markers · no purchase order, no procurement

How it works

1

Mark by talking

Markers speak while reading — a dissertation, an essay, a lab report, a reflective assignment, a final-year project. No templates, no second typing pass.

2

AI structures, never judges

Speech is transcribed and organised against your assessment criteria: strengths, weaknesses, actions, per criterion. The grade and the judgement stay with the marker.

3

Marker approves, student receives

The marker reviews, edits and signs off. Students get fuller, more consistent feedback than time usually allows.

Any discipline

Rubric-driven, not subject-specific.

Markaloud ships with templates for essays, reports, dissertations, lab reports and presentations — or import your own from Excel, Word or Canvas. Departments in this round span engineering, business, nursing, psychology and education.

The autumn pilot

What

Full Markaloud access for your department for the autumn marking period

Cost

Free. No purchase order, no procurement. If it isn’t working, stop using it.

Markers

Up to 20, onboarded by us in a 30-minute session

Term

September – January marking

You commit to

A named contact, and 30 minutes of honest feedback at term end

After the pilot

If it earned its place: institutional plans from £1,950/year (20 markers). If not, your data is exported and deleted on request.

“You mark. AI structures. You approve.”

Why departments run it

  • Marking time falls where it hurts most — long-form written work and project reports.
  • Feedback becomes consistent across markers and legible to external examiners.
  • A defensible AI position for your teaching committee: AI never grades, never sees work unsupervised, every step audit-logged.
  • Dictation removes a real barrier for markers with dyslexia, RSI or a visual impairment.
  • Works alongside Canvas; no change to your marks process.

Governance, answered up front

UK GDPR
Compliant, with a signed Data Processing Agreement before any student work is touched.
AI training
Never. No student work is used to train any model, contractually, by any provider we use.
Where data sits
Student work is stored in the UK. Transcription and structuring are carried out by named sub-processors in the US under a UK transfer agreement. The full list is published and named in the DPA.
Marker control
The AI never grades. Nothing reaches a student without marker approval.
Audit & exit
Every step logged. Export and deletion on request, at any time.

Worth twenty minutes?

I’ll show you Markaloud working on one of your own rubrics. No slides.

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