Handwritten grading
AI Grading for Handwritten Student Work
Upload scanned papers, PDFs or photos. AIDE AI reads handwritten answers, evaluates them against the mark scheme, drafts feedback, and leaves every final decision with the teacher.
Students sit exams on paper, so they should practise on paper — but handwritten work is exactly what marking tools have never handled. AIDE AI reads the script itself: it finds each question, matches the answer to the mark scheme, proposes a mark with a reason, and drafts the feedback. The teacher reads the working, not the pile.
How it works
Handwritten paper
Upload a scan, a PDF or a phone photo of the student's script. Mixed batches of handwritten and typed work are fine.
Question detected
AIDE locates each question and sub-part on the page and pairs it with the student's answer, including answers that run across pages.
Matched to the mark scheme
The answer is read against the exam board's mark scheme for that question — the actual scheme, not a generic rubric.
Suggested mark
A mark is proposed per question with the reasoning behind it, so a teacher can see why rather than just what.
Drafted feedback
Per-question comments are written for the student, in language they can act on.
Teacher review
The teacher reads the script and the suggestions side by side and changes anything they disagree with.
Approved result
Only after the teacher approves does the result exist for the student. Nothing is released automatically.
Scans, PDFs and photos
Whatever your scanner or a teacher's phone produces. No special paper, no answer boxes, no template to print.
Real handwriting
Working, crossings-out and answers written in the margin — read as a student actually writes, not as a form expects.
Marked to the exam-board scheme
Cambridge and Edexcel mark schemes, applied question by question, with the reasoning shown for each mark awarded.
A whole class in one upload
Bulk upload the batch instead of feeding scripts through one by one.
The teacher decides
Every mark is a suggestion until a teacher accepts it. The AI drafts; the human grades.
Consistent across the pile
The hundredth script is marked to the same standard as the first.
Questions people ask
- Can AIDE AI really grade handwritten student work?
- Yes. Handwritten grading is the core of the product. Upload a scan, PDF or photograph of a script and AIDE reads the handwritten answers, matches them to the mark scheme and proposes a mark per question.
- What do I need to upload?
- A scan, a PDF or a phone photo of the student's script. There is no special answer sheet to print and no template the student has to write inside.
- Does it use the real Cambridge and Edexcel mark schemes?
- Yes. Answers are evaluated against the exam board's mark scheme for that paper, question by question, rather than against a generic rubric.
- Can a teacher change an AI-generated grade?
- Always, and nothing is final until they do. Marks and comments are drafts a teacher reviews, edits and approves.
- Does a grade reach the student automatically?
- No. A result exists for a student only after a teacher approves it.
- How quickly can it mark a class set?
- A whole class uploaded together is marked in minutes rather than evenings — the review, not the marking, becomes the part that takes your time.
- Is there a free trial?
- Yes — 50 pages of AI marking free, with no credit card required, which is enough to test it on a real set of your own scripts.
Mark your own handwriting first
Upload one of your own scanned scripts and see what comes back before you decide anything. 50 pages free, no credit card required.
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