You keep control by treating JeddAI as a drafting assistant, not a decision-maker: it proposes feedback and marks against your own rubric, success criteria and comment banks, and you review, edit and approve every judgement. The teacher signs off each result, so professional accountability and the final mark always stay with you.
What does staying in control mean when marking with JeddAI?
Staying in control means JeddAI drafts feedback and provisional marks while you make and own every final decision. The tool reads student work against the criteria you set, then suggests where a response sits and what to say about it. You read that draft, correct anything it has misread, reshape the wording, and confirm or change the mark. Nothing reaches a student until you have approved it, so the point of judgement always has a teacher standing behind it.
This mirrors how many teachers already work with a shared marking guide or a colleague’s second read. The draft handles the slow, repetitive parts of marking, and your professional judgement does the deciding. Because you remain the person who signs off each result, JeddAI functions as a fast first pass that saves time rather than a system that quietly takes marking out of your hands.
The practical test is simple. At every point where a judgement is made, a teacher is the one making it. JeddAI proposes and you dispose. Keeping that boundary clear is what lets you use AI for speed while staying fully accountable for the marks and comments your students receive.
How does anchoring JeddAI to your own rubric keep you in charge?
Anchoring JeddAI to your own rubric, success criteria and comment banks keeps you in charge because it marks against your standard, not a generic one. When the tool works from the exact criteria you would apply by hand, its drafts reflect how you actually assess the task. That makes the output easier to check and quicker to trust, because you are reviewing against a benchmark you defined rather than second-guessing a hidden model.
Because those inputs are yours, you can change them whenever your judgement says so. Refine a criterion, tighten a comment-bank phrase, or clarify what a top-band response looks like, then have JeddAI draft again. The tool adapts to your standard rather than asking you to adapt to it, which is the opposite of handing your marking to a fixed algorithm you cannot see or adjust.
- Your rubric or marking guide, so drafts are graded against your descriptors
- Success criteria for the task, so feedback targets what you asked students to do
- Your comment banks, so the tone and phrasing sound like you
- Task-specific notes, so context you care about is not lost in the draft
What should you check before you approve AI-drafted feedback?
Before approving AI-drafted feedback, check that every comment and mark is supported by evidence in the student’s actual work. Read the response alongside the draft and confirm the tool has referred to what is really there. AI can occasionally misread a subtle point or over-credit a weak one, so your review is where those errors are caught and corrected before a student ever sees them.
It also helps to sense-check tone and fairness. Make sure feedback is specific and constructive rather than generic, that it matches the band you have awarded, and that similar responses across the class have been treated consistently. A quick, deliberate review of each draft is far faster than marking from scratch, and it keeps the final judgement unmistakably yours.
- Every mark is justified by the criteria and the evidence in the work
- Comments refer to what the student actually wrote, not an assumption
- Feedback tone is constructive, specific and appropriate for the student
- The mark and the written comments agree with each other
- Comparable responses across the class are being treated the same way
Which marking should always stay a human decision?
High-stakes, borderline and deeply original work should always stay a human decision. Final marks that contribute to certification, results sitting near a grade boundary, and responses that are creative or take an unexpected approach all need interpretive judgement that a teacher is accountable for. These are exactly the cases where a quick AI draft is least reliable and where your subject expertise matters most.
That does not mean AI has no place in these tasks. It can still draft a starting comment or flag where it is uncertain, giving you a prompt to think against. But the closer a decision sits to a student’s formal record or their sense of their own ability, the more firmly the call belongs with the teacher who knows the class, the context and the intent behind the response.
How do you keep marking consistent and defensible across a class?
You keep marking consistent by applying the same anchored criteria to every student and moderating a sample of results. When JeddAI drafts against one rubric for the whole set, it applies the descriptors evenly, which reduces the drift that creeps in when you mark tired responses late at night. Your job is to spot-check that consistency and adjust wherever your judgement disagrees with the draft.
Defensibility comes from being able to explain each mark. Because the criteria are yours and you have reviewed every judgement, you can point to the descriptor and the evidence behind any result, just as you would with hand marking. Moderating a handful of scripts with colleagues, or re-reading the borderline cases yourself, keeps the whole class fair and the process transparent.
How does JeddAI help you save time without giving up control?
JeddAI saves time by doing the repetitive drafting while leaving every decision with you. It turns your rubric and comment banks into tailored first-draft feedback and provisional marks in a fraction of the time, so the hours you spend shift from writing comments to checking judgements. You stay the marker, and the tool simply removes the slowest, most mechanical part of the job.
The result is marking that is faster but still yours: your criteria, your review and your sign-off on every result. If you want to see how that balance works in practice, you can Get started with JeddAI and keep full control of the feedback your students receive.
| Marking stage | JeddAI drafts | You decide and control |
|---|---|---|
| Setting the standard | Reads work against the criteria you provide | Choose the rubric, success criteria and comment banks |
| First-pass feedback | Suggests comments aligned to your criteria | Edit tone, accuracy and specificity before it is seen |
| Provisional marks | Proposes where a response sits | Confirm, adjust or override every mark |
| Borderline or original work | Flags where it is uncertain | Apply professional judgement and make the call |
| Releasing results | Prepares the drafted feedback | Review, approve and sign off before students see it |
Frequently asked questions
Does JeddAI decide the final grade?
No. JeddAI drafts a provisional mark against the criteria you supply, and you confirm, adjust or override it. You remain the decision-maker and stay accountable for the result.
Can I change the criteria JeddAI marks against?
Yes. JeddAI works from the rubric, success criteria and comment banks you provide, so you can refine them at any time and have it draft again against your updated standard.
Do I have to review every comment and mark?
You should read every drafted comment and mark before it reaches a student. Treat the draft as a first pass to check against the work, not a finished result to release unread.
Will using JeddAI make my feedback less personal?
Not if you edit the drafts. The tool handles repetitive drafting so you can spend your time on the judgement, the personal comments and the borderline cases that genuinely need you.
How does this fit my school's assessment policy?
Check your school or sector policy, but keeping the teacher as the reviewer who signs off each result reflects the human-in-control expectation most assessment policies are built around.
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