Rubric feedback · Markpilot

How it works · 4 steps

STEP 1 · Set up

Pick subject, year, feedback type

Subject and year set the tone. Pick parent report, student feedback, parent-meeting notes, or parent email.

STEP 2 · Workbook

Upload marked rubric workbook

.xlsx from the rubric builder with student names and rubric-level selections filled in.

STEP 3 · Student work (optional)

Add each student's PDF for sharper feedback

Essays, posters, scanned annotated work. Filename includes student first name. Skip for rubric-only.

STEP 4 · Results

Generate · edit · download

One paragraph per student, editable inline. Tweak any single comment and regenerate. Download as workbook or PDF.

1Preferences

Optional. Tweaks here apply to every generated feedback comment. Saved in your browser.

Subject

Default year level

What Markpilot writes by default

Tone: tailored to the feedback type you pick (parent report, student-facing, parent-meeting). Australian English by default.
Grounded: feedback is anchored on the rubric levels you actually marked, in the rubric's own language — no generic praise.
Even sharper with the student's work: upload each student's actual essay or artefact and the feedback gets specific to what they produced, not just band labels.
No AI tells: avoids the padded-phrase, score-judging, internally-stating language that gives away machine-generated copy.

These defaults run automatically. Add preferences below only if you want to override them.

Your name (appears in PDF footers)

Style preferences (optional)

Align next-step language with Bloom's Taxonomy Each next step is phrased with a Bloom's verb pointing one cognitive level above the student's current band on that criterion (Understand → Apply → Analyse → Evaluate → Create). Applies to BOTH parent and student next-steps — parent next-steps use the everyday-English subset ("apply", "explain", "compare"), student next-steps use the full palette including academic-register verbs. The rest of each comment (strengths, narrative body) is untouched. Off by default.

AI moderation — verify my grading against the student's work For each criterion, the AI checks whether the student's actual work supports the level you picked — agrees, suggests higher, or suggests lower — with a quoted phrase from the essay. Requires the student PDF in Step 3. Uses one extra credit per student.

Help improve Markpilot — share anonymous edit patterns When you regenerate feedback with a tweak (e.g. "make it shorter"), we save the before-and-after to learn what teachers actually want. Anonymous, no student names, no marks, opt-out anytime.

2Upload your filled rubric workbook

Upload the .xlsx file you downloaded from the rubric builder, with student names and level selections filled in on the Marking sheet. The workbook's Metadata sheet carries the rubric structure forward.

Drop .xlsx here or click to choose Must include a Marking sheet and a Metadata sheet

3Add student work (optional — for sharper feedback)

Drop in each student's actual work (essays, posters, slide decks, scanned annotated PDFs) and Markpilot grounds the feedback in what they actually produced. Include the student's first name in the filename — other words are fine. Skip this step for rubric-only feedback.

Drop student PDFs here or click to choose Drag a folder or multi-select · PDFs only · one per student

What filename formats work?

Markpilot looks for the student's first name (and last initial if there are two students with the same first name) anywhere in the filename. All of these match a student named "Sarah Miller":

Sarah_M.pdf
Sarah Miller - Essay.pdf
Final draft - Sarah M.pdf
essay_v3_Sarah_M_2026.pdf

Files that won't match: Student_001.pdf, essay_final.pdf, 1234567.pdf. Those land in the unmatched list and you can assign them manually from the dropdown next to each student.

4Results

Each feedback comment is editable inline. Use the buttons to copy, regenerate, or tweak with feedback. Download a copy of the workbook with the feedback written to a new sheet.

Show Parent report Student-facing

Name	Levels	Strengths · Gaps · Next steps · Feedback	Actions