Five stages, end to end.

If you already have a test, upload it. You can add the blank test, a worked solutions copy, and your own marking guide if you have one. Markscanner reads those materials and drafts a rubric: what each question is worth, how marks are allocated, and what counts as a correct answer.

Need a fresh quiz instead? Markscanner can draft one for you. Describe the topic, the difficulty, and how many questions you want, and you get a printable vector PDF with proper math typesetting. An optional Version B variant is produced from the same source to discourage copying.

Either way, you review and approve the rubric before any grading runs. You decide how the test is marked; Markscanner just gives you a first draft to start from.

There’s nothing special about this step — you print the test on regular paper and give it to students. No QR codes, no custom booklets, no markings to scan. Students write their answers by hand the way they always have.

If you’re running A/B versions to discourage copying, hand out Version A and Version B in any pattern you want. Markscanner tracks which paper each student wrote so they’re graded against the version they actually saw.

Once your students hand the papers in, scan or photograph the stack in one go. Photocopier, phone camera, document scanner — whatever produces a readable PDF or set of images. Drop the whole class set in one upload; Markscanner doesn’t mind if some students wrote on two pages and some on five.

Markscanner groups the pages that belong to each student, identifies where each question starts, and matches the submission against your class roster. If a name is hard to read or a page is out of place, that gets surfaced on a verification screen instead of silently guessed.

Each answer is compared against your rubric or answer key. Partial marks are applied on sub-questions, so a student who sets up the problem correctly but slips on arithmetic doesn’t lose the whole question. Different valid forms — factored vs. expanded, mixed number vs. improper fraction, equivalent equations — are treated as equivalent where the rubric allows it.

Messy handwriting, unusual approaches, and low-confidence results get flagged for your attention first. The point is to spend your time on the answers that actually need a human decision — not to re-read every paper from the top.

Every draft mark and comment is editable. Change a grade, rewrite a comment in your own voice, or regrade a single submission if you want a fresh draft. Nothing is final until you approve it.

Once you approve, Markscanner generates a clean one-page feedback sheet per student: their grade, per-question comments, what they did well, and what to work on next. Print and staple to the returned paper, and every student gets the kind of written feedback most teachers only have time to give a few.

Export a CSV of class results to drop into whatever gradebook or SIS you already use. No proprietary integration to set up, no data lock-in.

Because every question gets marked the same way, the class data is actually comparable across students. Markscanner surfaces per-question class performance so you can see at a glance what tripped up the class — useful for deciding what to reteach tomorrow.