Marking takes up a huge amount of time, and giving every student personal feedback is harder still when you have a hundred of them. This guide shows you how to set up homework that marks itself and gives each student feedback on their own answer.
Building the homework
Homework is built in conversation with the Educator Agent. When you add a lesson you get three choices:
With Agent is the one to use if you want the questions written for you. Tell it what you are setting and for whom, for example "a homework on the causes of World War One for Grade 9, mostly long answer questions with mark schemes". Upload your own notes, textbook pages or a past paper and it will build from those.
Copy My Lesson is the one to use if the homework already exists as a document and you want it brought into Mindjoy as it stands.
The agent drafts an overview first, so you can change the shape of it before anything is built. See Creating Lessons with the Educator Agent for the full walkthrough.
Ask for mark schemes explicitly. The marking is only as good as the mark scheme behind each question, and it is much easier to adjust one the agent has drafted than to write it yourself.
Checking and assigning it
The lesson lands in your library as an unpublished draft. From here:
1. You'll see a bunch of different blocks, some content, some questions. Most of the questions will be Free Response Questions with a mark scheme. AI will use the mark scheme to auto mark student answers.
2. Feel free to edit any of these questions or text blocks.
3. Preview the questions and make sure that when students answer them, you're happy with the feedback given.
4. Try submitting an answer as if you were a student. Click submit and you'll see the result of the AI marking.
5. One important option to highlight is that you can select a tutor so that the student has an AI chat helping them while going through the work. If you want them doing it on their own then don't select a tutor.
6. If you'd like to see how students view the homework, click "Preview".
7. Once happy with your new homework, you need to assign it to a classroom. Click "Assign".
8. Click the classroom you'd like to assign your homework to. You can also add a due date when assigning it to the classroom.
9. Click "Save".
10. Reminder: Click the "Students" tab and make sure you have students in the classroom, or no one will be completing the homework anytime soon.
11. Once some of your students have submitted their work, click on "Submissions" to see how they're all doing. You'll see the number of students completed, the class average and how each student did.
How the auto-marker reads page context (New editor)
When you build automarked homework in the New editor, the auto-marker reads everything that comes before each long-answer question on the same page: text, images, tables, callouts and earlier question prompts. That means contextual questions like "refer to the passage above" or "use the worked example to..." are graded with the full picture, not in isolation.
See How long-answer questions are graded with page context for more.