What runs at your college
Your teacher decides the mark. Every time.
The software writes a first draft. Your teacher reads the work, changes anything they disagree with, and signs off. No score reaches a student until they do.
On the screen
What your teacher sees
One screen. The student's work on one side, the draft scores on the other, with the reason for each one.
Limitation of liability clause. Contract work, semester 9.
Four things your teacher can do with any score.
- Accept it. The draft score stands.
- Change it. Move the score up or down.
- Replace it. Write their own reason instead.
- Add to it. Leave a comment without moving the score.
Straightforward work can be cleared in one action from the class view. The rest get opened one at a time.
After approval
What happens when your teacher approves
Approving does three things. The student gets their feedback. The work becomes eligible for a working professional to check. The scores and comments are locked into what later becomes the record.
Approving does not publish anything. Publishing to the public page is a separate decision, and it needs the student's permission as well as the college's.
Why it works this way
Why the person decides
The software exists to handle volume. One teacher cannot hand mark three hundred pieces of work with written feedback. A machine can read all of them.
That makes the work affordable. It does not make it legitimate. Only your teacher does that.
The mark is decided by your own teacher, under your own rules, through the same moderation and appeal process you already run. No new authority is created. The software has no say over a mark.
So there's no limit on the override. No confidence score your teacher has to defer to. No threshold where a change gets refused. No second sign off. Where the teacher and the draft disagree, the teacher is right, and the disagreement is written down.
The trail
Every mark can be explained
This is the part registrars and accreditation teams care about most.
Every difference between the draft and the approved version is recorded. Both scores, both reasons, who changed it, when, and why. Agreeing with the draft is recorded too, because agreeing is a decision.
So when a student disputes a result, when an examination committee asks, or when an accreditation visit lands, you can show what happened instead of trying to remember it.
A mark can still be wrong. It cannot be unexplained.
The constraint
Where the time goes
If this is not faster than what your teachers do today, nothing else about it matters.
Teacher time is the first design constraint in this project, ahead of assessment quality and ahead of everything the public registry does. Better assessment that costs a teacher an extra hour a week gets used once and dropped. That's why there's a single screen and a bulk accept.
This asks for review time instead of marking time. It does not claim zero. Your teacher still reads the work, because a teacher who has not read it cannot defend the mark. What changes is that they start from a score and a written reason on every part, not a blank page.
Limits
What this does not do
- It does not run second marking or hold a moderation meeting.
- It does not scale marks across a class.
- It does not work out a final course grade.
- It does not write a mark into your student records system.
Your existing rules decide whether a mark stands. This records who decided what, and why.
Next step
Get started
ReadyHo is free and open source. It runs across your departments, and a college can start with one course or roll it out widely. If your teachers say it is slower, you have learned something worth knowing.
The rest of what runs at your college
- Set the work Your teacher writes the project and a simple scorecard once, then reuses both every year.
- Collect the work Send a project to one student, a group, or a whole year. The actual work comes back in one place.
- First draft scores Every submission comes back scored against your scorecard, with comments. No student ever sees this part.
- An industry signature A working professional checks the same work and puts their name and credentials to it.
- The proof The work, the scorecard, all three opinions, and who gave each one. One page an employer can open.
- Student control Nothing is published unless the student says so, and they can change their mind at any time.
- Cost control You hold the account, pick what it uses, and set a spending limit. Nothing is billed through us.
- Your servers One install on your own machine. Student work, drafts and marks never leave your college.