Marking a set: the repeating half, done for you
aime now reads across a whole set of work, spots the mistakes that keep recurring, and drafts the feedback you'd have written thirty times — leaving your attention for the few pieces that need you.
Across thirty scripts you are usually writing slight variations of the same five comments, because thirty students made overlapping versions of the same handful of mistakes. That's not thirty pieces of professional judgement. It's five, typed out six times each.
aime now looks across a whole set at once. It groups the work by what actually went wrong — the misread question, the missing link between evidence and point, the procedure applied in the right way to the wrong step — and drafts feedback for each group in language you can edit rather than rewrite.
What you get back isn't a mark. It's a starting point, plus a short read of the set: what most of the class has got, what a third of them haven't, and which two or three pieces don't fit any pattern and are worth your own eyes.
That last bit is the point. The routine half of marking is handled; the part only you would notice — the child whose writing changed tone this week — is where your evening goes instead.
Anything aime drafts is yours to change before it leaves your screen. Nothing is sent to a student without you.
