You start by adding your marking criteria, uploading or connecting one piece of student work, letting JeddAI draft feedback against your rubric and comment banks, then reviewing and editing every comment before releasing it. Begin with a single class task so the first session stays manageable.
What do you need before your first JeddAI session?
Before your first session you need three things: access to JeddAI, one piece of student work you want feedback on, and the marking criteria you would normally apply to it. Starting with materials you already use keeps the setup short and lets you focus on learning how the tool drafts and how you review, rather than building everything from scratch.
Choose a low-stakes, formative task for this first run rather than a high-stakes internally assessed NCEA piece. A short piece of writing or a practice response works well, because it gives you room to experiment with the draft-and-review rhythm without any pressure on a student’s official result. You can always move to more significant tasks once the process feels familiar.
How do you set up your marking criteria in JeddAI?
You set up your criteria by adding the rubric, success criteria and comment banks you already use, so JeddAI drafts against your standards rather than a generic template. If you mark to an NCEA achievement standard, enter those descriptors; if your department uses its own rubric, use that instead. The closer the criteria are to what you actually apply, the more useful the first draft will be.
Comment banks are worth setting up early because they capture the phrases you reach for again and again. Once JeddAI can see your recurring feedback, it can reuse it consistently across a class, which saves time and keeps your marking even-handed. You only need enough to get started, and you can refine the banks as you notice which comments you keep editing in by hand.
- Access to JeddAI and one piece of student work to mark.
- The rubric or achievement standard you are marking against.
- Success criteria written in the language you use with students.
- A starter comment bank of phrases you use often.
How do you get JeddAI to draft feedback on a piece of work?
You upload or connect the student’s work, then ask JeddAI to draft feedback against the criteria you set up. It reads the response and produces comment-by-comment suggestions tied to your rubric and success criteria, giving you a first draft to work from instead of a blank page. The draft is meant to be edited, so treat it as a head start rather than a finished result.
For your first session, run a single student’s work all the way through before doing more. Seeing one complete draft shows you how JeddAI interprets your criteria and where it tends to over-reach or miss a detail, which makes reviewing the rest of the set faster and more predictable once you scale up.
You do not need a perfect setup to begin. If a rubric descriptor is vague or a comment bank is thin, the draft will simply reflect that, and you will spot the gap when you review. Treat the first run as a way to test your own criteria as much as the tool, then tighten whatever produced weak or off-target comments.
How do you review and edit that first draft?
You review by reading each drafted comment against the actual work and your criteria, then editing tone and wording before you approve anything. The draft is a starting point, not a verdict: you confirm the substance is accurate first, then shape the language so it sounds like you and suits the learner in front of you.
Trim generic praise, remove repetition, and correct anything the response does not actually support. Keep the one or two messages the student most needs, expressed as a clear strength and an actionable next step. This review step is where your professional judgement stays firmly in charge of what a student receives, and it is usually much faster than writing every comment from scratch.
How does JeddAI fit NCEA and the New Zealand Curriculum?
JeddAI fits by supporting your judgement rather than replacing it: you decide every grade and comment, which is exactly what NCEA moderation examines. For internally assessed achievement standards, keeping each comment tied to the standard and to evidence in the work makes your marking easier to defend, not harder, if a colleague or moderator later looks at the same response.
The New Zealand Curriculum treats assessment and feedback as tools to improve learning, and formative feedback is where a drafting aid helps most. Whether the work is headed for internal or external assessment, the accountability stays with you; the tool simply speeds up the writing so you can spend more of your time on the judgement itself and on the next step for each student.
It also helps to keep your first uses formative and low-stakes while you build trust in the process. Once you are confident that the drafts consistently reflect your standards, you can decide where a tool like this genuinely saves time and where you would rather mark by hand, keeping full control over anything that contributes to a reported result.
What does a manageable first-session workflow look like?
A manageable first session follows a short, repeatable loop: prepare your criteria, run one piece of work, review the draft, then reflect on what you changed. Working through the steps once, end to end, teaches you the rhythm, so the second and third pieces take far less time than the first and you build confidence before marking a full set.
Once that loop feels familiar, you can extend it to a whole class and lean on your comment banks to keep feedback consistent and moderation-friendly. A tool like JeddAI is there to apply your criteria at speed while you keep the final say on every comment. When you are ready, you can Get started with JeddAI and mark your first task with your own standards already in place.
- Set up one rubric, its success criteria and a small comment bank.
- Upload or connect a single piece of student work.
- Let JeddAI draft feedback against those criteria.
- Review each comment for accuracy, then edit tone and wording.
- Approve the feedback, and note any phrases to add to your comment bank.
Frequently asked questions
Is JeddAI suitable for internally assessed NCEA work?
It can draft formative feedback, but the assessment judgement and grade stay with you. Keep each comment tied to the achievement standard and the evidence so the work remains ready for NZQA moderation.
How much student work should I start with?
One class task, ideally one you would mark anyway. A single set lets you learn the review rhythm before you scale up to a whole cohort.
Will JeddAI's feedback sound like a generic template?
Not if you add your own comment banks and criteria. It drafts against what you provide, and your edits during review make the wording sound like you.
Do I have to mark everything through JeddAI once I start?
No. Many teachers use it for the tasks where drafting saves the most time and mark shorter pieces themselves. Start where it helps most and expand from there.
What if the first draft misreads a student's work?
Edit or delete that comment. Treat the draft as a starting point and correct anything the response does not actually support before you approve it.
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