Markpilot Partner Program

Built with the teachers who use it.

Markpilot marks test papers and exams, and drafts report comments and student feedback from the marks. Partner teachers use it free for six months on their real classes, and give fifteen minutes a month of honest feedback on what is working and what is not.

Five places open each month, wherever you teach.

Three kinds of partnership

Partner Teachers

Free for six months on your real marking, in exchange for fifteen minutes a month of feedback.

Open · five places a month

Partner Schools

Starts with one faculty: one department, one reporting cycle, built alongside whoever leads it.

Lead a faculty? Email us

Research Partners

Independent research into what AI feedback actually does for teachers and students. The findings stay yours.

Researching this? Email us

If you lead a school and are weighing up whether to allow this, start here.

What you get, and what you give

Both sides in writing. Six months is one full reporting cycle, which is long enough for you to know whether it is worth paying for.

You get

  • Six months free on your real classes. That is the Teacher plan, normally US$30 a month.
  • A partner rate for good if you stay on afterwards.
  • A direct line, not a support inbox. If something blocks your marking, it is fixed within 48 hours.
  • A say in what gets built next, and the credit for it when it ships.
  • Cohort insight, not just per class. Combine the workbooks from several classes to see where a whole year level struggled and what may be worth reteaching.
  • Your name on this page, if you want it. Your call, and you can change your mind.

You give

  • One real assessment a term, marked in Markpilot. Two over the six months. This is the part that matters.
  • Fifteen minutes on the phone each month, booked in your time zone. Voice notes are fine if calls are not.
  • Straight answers. "This is broken" is more use to us than "this is great".
What you never owe: a testimonial. If Markpilot earns a quote, we will ask for one. If it does not, there is nothing to ask for. And when we ask your opinion, the answer can change the product.

Looking at a cohort, not just a class

Markpilot exports a workbook for every class you mark. Several workbooks can be combined in cohort insights: a few classes across a year level, or a full faculty cycle where colleagues share theirs. It reports where the cohort struggled, which questions did the work, and what may be worth reteaching.

This is the kind of thing faculties often want for a moderation or planning meeting and rarely have time to prepare. It is available on any Markpilot account, with or without a formal arrangement with the school.

Two limits worth stating. A few classes are not a whole cohort, so the picture only covers what was actually marked. And colleagues share their own workbooks or they do not: nothing gathers another teacher's marking without them.

Fair questions before you apply

Will this make more work, not less?
For the first paper, about the same: you are learning it. After that it should take out a good chunk of the marking and most of the comment writing. If it does not, that is exactly what the monthly call is for, and you can stop at any time.

Am I allowed to use this at my school?
Usually, and it is worth checking. You choose how students are named, and first names or initials are enough. What gets stored, for how long, and who processes it is all set out on the privacy page. If your IT or privacy lead has questions, they can email us and the answers come in writing.

Do I have to tell my school?
No. Plenty of teachers will use this personally, the way they already use everything else they find. If your school does want the detail, we will provide it properly.

What is the catch on "free"?
Honest feedback from working teachers is worth more to Markpilot right now than six months of subscription fees. No card at signup, and no automatic charge at the end.

What happens after six months?
You keep your marks, comments and exports. You either move to the partner rate or you stop. Nothing is deleted because you left.

Do I need to be technical?
No. If you can scan or photograph a paper, you can use it.

Will the comments sound like a robot wrote them?
That is where the most work has gone, and the thing to be hardest on. Everything is a draft you edit and approve; nothing reaches a parent or a student without you.

Apply

About five minutes.

About you

School email is ideal, personal is fine. Nothing you enter here is published without your explicit OK.

Never published without your permission.

Every type is welcome. Where reports are centrally mandated, teachers often use Markpilot as a personal tool rather than the official pipeline; that's a perfectly good way to be a partner. Pick whichever is closest.

e.g. VCE, HSC, NCEA, GCSE or A Level, IB, AP, Leaving Cert, provincial. Useful because a curriculum Markpilot has never met is exactly where it will show its assumptions.

Your marking

Be specific if you can. "Year 10 trig test, week 4 next term" tells us a lot more than "keen to explore".

e.g. Compass, SEQTA, Canvas, Schoolbox, Google Classroom, something else. This tells us whether teachers at your school choose their own tools.

Where you show up (all optional)

Completely optional. Most great partners have none of these.

Subject associations anywhere (MAV, VATE, NATE, NCTM, IB workshops, your national or regional body), teachmeets, your own staffroom PL. Which ones?

The deal

Genuine question. The answers to this one shape the product more than any feature request.

What happens to this form: it's emailed to the Markpilot team and stored in Markpilot's database for review. It's never shared or published without your explicit OK, and you can ask us to delete it any time. How the product itself handles data: markpilot.co/privacy.

For heads of faculty

A faculty subscription is not five separate accounts. It is one place where an assessment is set up once, marked against the same key by everyone, and looked at together afterwards.

What it gives you

  • Moderation you can actually see. The same task across every class: where markers agree, and where similar work got different marks. It is a comparison that is otherwise slow to assemble.
  • The cohort, not just one class. Which questions and which skills went badly across the whole year level, with the student work sitting behind each one.
  • Feedback on the paper itself. Which questions separated nobody, so next year's version is better.
  • Set the task up once for everyone who teaches it.
  • Reports drafted and consistent before they are due.

What it will never do

  • Rank your teachers. There is no view that scores a teacher's marking, and we will not build one.
  • Faculty views cover the assessment and the cohort. A teacher's own marking is theirs, and any colleague who read this as a monitoring tool would be right to object.
  • Nothing goes to a parent or a student without the teacher who taught them approving it.
The unit
One faculty or department, one real reporting cycle.
The build
The faculty tools get designed with the first head of faculty who commits, not before.
Then
Other faculties, on the strength of a cycle that actually happened.
For whoever reviews software at your school: the security and data page covers architecture, sub-processors, retention and access control, and says plainly what Markpilot does not have yet. The privacy page covers the same ground in plain English. Anything they miss, send it to us and it gets answered in writing rather than with a link to a policy.

If you lead a faculty and would like to talk about running a full reporting cycle through it, email hello@markpilot.co.

For school leaders

If a teacher at your school has sent you this, here is the short version.

What it is. Markpilot reads marked or unmarked student papers, records the marks, and drafts report comments and student feedback from them. The teacher edits and approves everything. Nothing reaches a parent or a student without the teacher who taught them signing it off, and there is no setting that changes that.

What the school is being asked for. If one teacher uses it, nothing: no site licence, no integration, no IT work. A faculty arrangement is a separate conversation and only makes sense after a department has run a full reporting cycle.

Student data. Teachers choose how students are named, and first names or initials are enough. What is stored, how long it is kept, who processes it and where, and how to have it deleted are all set out on the privacy page, written so it can be forwarded to whoever asks. Student work is never used to train AI models. Two things a careful reader should know up front: processing happens outside Australia, with the database in Singapore and AI processing in the United States, and the privacy policy has not yet been reviewed by a lawyer.

Who is behind it. Markpilot is a product of No Drama Studios Pty Ltd. It is built and run by Andrew Weekes, a registered secondary teacher, who is also the person who will answer if you write to us.

How established it is. New. The partner program described on this page exists because the product needs real classrooms and honest criticism before it deserves anyone's confidence. Anyone claiming a track record here would be making it up.

If you want more. The security and data page is written for whoever reviews software at your school: architecture, sub-processors, retention, access control, and a plain list of what Markpilot does not have yet. Anything it misses, hello@markpilot.co gets answered in writing. If it would be more useful to see it working on one of your own papers, that can be arranged.

Research Partners

If you research education and want to study what AI-assisted marking and feedback actually does for teachers and students, we want that research to exist, including the parts that don't flatter the product. What is available: a working tool in real classrooms, data access under ethics approval, a practising teacher to engage with the findings, and a pool of partner teachers who have already agreed to be contacted about research. What is not: funding, or any influence over what you publish. Research that Markpilot paid for would not be worth reading.

Whatever the findings are, they can be published here in full, including the parts that do not flatter the product. That offer stands whether or not the work also appears somewhere that matters more to you academically.

hello@markpilot.co, and tell us what you'd want to study.

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