It depends on the job you need done: Jeddle, through JeddAI, helps teachers mark and give feedback on completed student work, while Class Companion focuses on in-lesson practice where students get instant AI feedback as they answer. Choose Jeddle for marking, Class Companion for live practice.
What is the core difference between Jeddle and Class Companion?
Jeddle and Class Companion solve two different problems, so the honest starting point is to name the job you want done. Jeddle, through its JeddAI assistant, is built for the teacher’s side of the desk: it helps you mark completed student work and draft written feedback aligned to your own rubric and success criteria. Class Companion is built around the student’s side, focusing on in-lesson practice and giving students instant AI feedback as they answer questions you have set.
That difference matters because it changes who the AI talks to first. With Jeddle, the assistant drafts marking and feedback for you to review and edit before anything reaches a student. With a student-facing practice tool, the feedback is designed to reach the student in the moment so they can revise straight away. Neither is better in the abstract; they sit at different points in your teaching cycle.
Which tool should you choose to speed up marking?
Choose Jeddle if your main pain is the hours you spend marking and writing feedback. JeddAI reads submitted work and drafts marking and comments aligned to the rubric, success criteria and comment banks you already use, then hands the draft back to you to check, adjust and finalise.
The point is not to remove your judgement but to reduce the blank-page effort of writing similar comments for thirty students. You keep control of the mark and the wording, while gaining consistency across a class and a faster turnaround. Because the draft is built from criteria you have already defined, the feedback tends to stay closer to what you would have written yourself.
Class Companion, by contrast, is not positioned as a summative marking assistant for a stack of submitted essays. Its strength sits earlier in the learning process, so if marking is your bottleneck, that is where Jeddle is aimed.
Which tool is better for in-lesson student practice?
For live, in-lesson practice, Class Companion is the tool built for that job. It is designed to let students answer prompts or questions during a lesson and receive immediate AI feedback, so they can try again and improve within the same session.
Jeddle does not try to be that live drill-and-practice loop. Its feedback is aimed at work students have already completed and submitted, where you want considered marking and comments rather than instant in-the-moment coaching. If your goal is to keep students practising and self-correcting during class, a student-facing practice platform fits that need more naturally than a marking assistant does.
It is worth being clear-eyed about the difference so you do not stretch either tool past its purpose. Asking a marking assistant to run live practice, or a practice tool to produce moderated summative marks, tends to disappoint on both counts. Match the tool to the moment and each does its own job well.
How does each approach handle teacher control and feedback quality?
The key trade-off is who checks the feedback before a student sees it. Jeddle routes every AI draft through the teacher, so you can catch a misread, sharpen a comment or correct a mark against your own criteria before it is shared. That keeps you accountable for what students actually receive.
Student-facing practice tools trade some of that oversight for speed: feedback reaches the student instantly, which is powerful for practice but means you are not vetting each message in real time. For higher-stakes marking aligned to achievement standards, teacher review matters more; for low-stakes practice, immediacy matters more. Deciding which you value tells you which tool leads.
Can you use Jeddle and Class Companion together?
Yes, because they cover different moments in the teaching cycle, many classrooms can run both without overlap. A practice tool supports students while they are still learning a skill; a marking assistant supports you once they have produced work to be assessed.
A simple way to divide the work is to match each tool to the moment it serves best:
Used this way, the two are complementary rather than competing, and students see the same expectations whether they are practising or being marked.
- Use a practice platform for warm-ups, retrieval and in-class skill drills where students benefit from instant feedback.
- Use Jeddle when students submit essays, short answers or assessment tasks that you need to mark and comment on.
- Keep your rubric and success criteria consistent across both so students meet one set of expectations.
- Reserve your own time for the judgement calls: moderation, borderline marks and personalised next steps.
What should Australian teachers look for when choosing?
Start by matching the tool to the job, then check the details that matter in an Australian classroom. Alignment to the Australian Curriculum and your state’s achievement standards, the ability to work from your own rubric, teacher control over feedback, and clear data-privacy practices all belong on the list.
Because product details change over time, confirm current specifics on each vendor’s own site before you commit a whole faculty. The right choice is less about which brand is best in general and more about which job you are trying to make lighter for your own teaching.
- Does it align to ACARA achievement standards or your state's syllabus, or make you adapt to a fixed template?
- Can the AI work from your own rubric, success criteria and comment banks?
- Who reviews feedback before students see it, and can you edit it?
- How is student work stored and used, and does it meet your school's privacy requirements?
- Does it help at the moment you actually need it: live practice, or marking submitted work?
How does JeddAI help you apply your criteria consistently?
JeddAI helps by drafting marking and feedback against the exact rubric, success criteria and comment banks you already use, so a class of submissions is assessed against one consistent standard. You review and edit every draft, which keeps your professional judgement at the centre while removing much of the repetitive writing.
If your main goal is to reclaim marking time without handing over control of the mark, that is the problem Jeddle is built to solve. Get started with JeddAI to see how it fits your marking workflow, and keep a live-practice tool for the in-lesson moments where students benefit from instant feedback.
| Aspect | Jeddle (JeddAI) | Class Companion |
|---|---|---|
| Primary job | Marking and feedback on submitted work | In-lesson practice with instant feedback |
| Who the AI reaches first | The teacher, who reviews and edits | The student, in the moment |
| Works from | Your own rubric, success criteria and comment banks | The practice prompts and questions you set |
| Best moment in the cycle | After students submit work | During practice and revision |
| Main benefit | Saves marking time, keeps the teacher in control | Fast formative feedback for students |
Frequently asked questions
Is Jeddle a replacement for Class Companion?
Not exactly, because they do different jobs. Jeddle focuses on marking and feedback on submitted work, while Class Companion focuses on in-lesson student practice, so many teachers use them for different moments.
Does Jeddle give feedback directly to students like Class Companion?
No. JeddAI drafts feedback for the teacher to review and edit first, rather than sending it straight to students during a lesson.
Can Jeddle mark against my own rubric?
Yes. JeddAI is designed to draft marking and comments aligned to your own rubric, success criteria and comment banks, which you then check and adjust.
Which tool saves more marking time?
For marking a set of completed work, Jeddle is built to reduce that workload. A live-practice tool is aimed at student practice rather than easing your marking pile.
Are these tools suitable for Australian curriculum requirements?
Both can be used in Australian classrooms, but check that any tool aligns to ACARA achievement standards or your state's syllabus and meets your school's privacy expectations.
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