Setting up JeddAI for your first assignment means picking one real task, entering the rubric, success criteria and comment bank you already use for it, adding your students' submissions, then generating draft marking and feedback that you review and edit before returning it. Keep this first task small and familiar.
Which assignment should you choose for your first run?
Choose a task you genuinely need to mark for a real class, ideally one you have marked by hand before, so you already know what a strong, an average and a struggling response looks like. A single Year 9 persuasive essay or a senior short-answer set works better than a whole term’s backlog, because you can compare the drafts against your own expectations and watch the full workflow on something familiar.
Avoid making your first run a test on invented work. Real submissions give JeddAI the range of responses it needs to draft specific, useful feedback, and they give you a fair sense of how closely the drafts sit to how you would mark. Pick a task with clear criteria rather than an open-ended reflection, so the standards are easy to enter and easy to judge against.
What should you prepare before you set the task up?
Before you open the setup, gather three things: the task itself, the marking materials for it, and the student work. JeddAI drafts marking against your own rubric, success criteria and comment bank, so having those ready in your own wording is what makes the first draft resemble your marking rather than a generic score.
You do not need everything perfect to begin. If your rubric lives in a document, or your faculty already has an agreed one aligned to curriculum outcomes, keep it open so you can paste it in rather than rebuild it. A rough comment bank of phrases you reuse is enough to start with, and you can sharpen all of it after the first run. The point of preparing now is to spend the setup time once, on materials you already trust, so the drafting stage has something solid to work from.
- The assignment task or question your students answered.
- The rubric or marking criteria you use for this task.
- Success criteria describing what a strong response looks like.
- Any comment bank of feedback phrases you reuse.
- One class set of submissions, ready to upload or connect.
How do you enter your rubric and success criteria?
Enter the rubric, success criteria and comment bank exactly as you apply them, because these are what JeddAI marks against rather than a hidden scoring model. The rubric sets the criteria and standards, the success criteria describe what a strong response looks like, and the comment bank holds the phrases you reuse so students hear a consistent voice across the class.
Keep the wording close to your own and tied to the outcomes your students are assessed against, whether that is a NESA, VCAA or QCAA course. The clearer and more specific each criterion is, the more closely the drafted marking tracks your intent, and the less you edit afterwards. Vague criteria produce vague feedback, so this is the step worth slowing down for on your first assignment.
How do you add and check student submissions?
Add student work by uploading the submissions or connecting work you already have, so JeddAI has the responses to mark. Loading the whole class at once is what unlocks the time saving, because the tool drafts feedback for every student against the same criteria instead of you starting each one from a blank page.
Before you generate anything, check that each submission is matched to the right student, especially in a large class. Clear file names and one response per student keep the drafted feedback organised and save you untangling mismatches later. A couple of minutes tidying at this stage pays off across the whole set, and it means the marks line up with the right names first time.
How does JeddAI draft the marking, and where do you review it?
Once your criteria and student work are in place, JeddAI drafts a mark and feedback for each response, and you review and edit every one before it reaches a student. The tool proposes and you decide; nothing is finalised automatically, so your professional judgement stays at the centre of the process.
Read each draft as you would a colleague’s marking. Where it captures your intent, accept it; where it misses something only you can see, edit the comment or adjust the mark. Across a class set you will notice the drafts follow your rubric closely, which is what turns marking from writing every comment yourself into refining what is already there. Treat your first assignment as a calibration run: the more attention you pay to what you change, the better you understand where the drafts help most and where your own read still matters.
What should you do once the first assignment is done?
After you return the feedback, save the rubric, success criteria and comment bank you set up so the next assignment reuses them instead of starting over. The setup effort is a one-off investment; every similar task afterwards draws on the same criteria and takes far less time to prepare.
Use what you edited as a guide for refining. If you kept rewriting the same comment by hand, add it to your comment bank; if a criterion produced loose or off feedback, tighten its wording. These small changes compound, so each assignment you mark needs fewer edits than the one before it.
- Save your criteria and comment bank for reuse on similar tasks.
- Add any comment you rewrote often to the comment bank.
- Tighten any criterion that produced vague or off feedback.
- Note the subject and year-level context that worked, then repeat it.
How do you keep marking consistent on the tasks that follow?
Consistency comes from reusing well-defined criteria, not from the automation itself, so the rubric and comment bank you build on your first task become the backbone of every assignment after it. Apply the same materials across a class and the feedback stays even from the first student to the last, and stays comparable between one task and the next.
A tool like JeddAI helps you apply the same rubric and success criteria consistently across a class and cut the time spent drafting routine feedback, while you stay in control of every mark and comment. Built in Australia and used across Australian and New Zealand classrooms, it keeps you reviewing and approving every result. You can Get started with JeddAI and run it on a single assignment to see how it fits the way you already mark.
Frequently asked questions
How long does it take to set up my first assignment in JeddAI?
Most of the time goes into entering your rubric, success criteria and comment bank once. After that, adding a class set and generating drafts is quick, and every later assignment reuses the criteria you already set up.
Can I set up JeddAI without a formal rubric?
Yes, but a clear set of criteria helps. You can begin with simple success criteria describing a strong response, then refine them into a fuller rubric after your first run.
Does JeddAI send marks to students automatically?
No. JeddAI drafts each mark and comment, and you review and edit them before anything reaches a student, so the teacher stays in control.
What kind of task works best for a first assignment?
A task you have marked before with clear criteria, such as a persuasive essay or a short-answer set, works better than an open-ended reflection because the standards are easier to enter and judge.
Can I change my rubric after the first assignment?
Yes. Your criteria and comment bank are meant to be refined; tighten anything that produced vague feedback and reuse the improved version on the next task.
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