The marking tool
teachers actually
asked for.
Set assignments. Students submit via a link. AI marks against your rubric. You review and publish.
Built around
how teachers work
No IT department needed. A teacher can be up and running — rooms created, assignments set, rubrics built — in under 10 minutes.
Create your class, add an assignment, drop in the mark scheme you already use.
Each assignment gets a link. Post it in Google Classroom, Teams — anywhere.
Tap, type their name, drop in the essay. No accounts. Under a minute.
Scored against your exact criteria, with feedback that quotes their own work.
Adjust anything you disagree with. Nothing publishes without you.
Each student gets a private mark link — and a tree that grows when they score 60%+.
Pricing
Simple. Fair. Built for teachers.
Every plan starts free — no card needed. Upgrade from inside Paddle whenever you need more marks.
- 30 marks per month
- 5 classes, 10 assignments
- The same marking as every paid plan
- Student mark links & growth trees
- 150 marks per month
- Unlimited classes & assignments
- Example answers to calibrate your standard
- Everything in Free
- 300 marks per month
- A full timetable's marking
- Everything in Single
- Priority support
- 900 marks per month
- For heavy markers & whole departments
- Everything in Double
- Invoice payment on request
Create your account, then choose a plan inside Paddle whenever you need more marks.
Don't want a subscription? Top up with 60 marks for €4.99 — one-off, never expires.
Cancel anytime. Schools & departments — whole-team plans and invoicing. Contact us →
Paddle in brief
The things teachers ask before they'll spend an evening on it.
- Does it grade my students?
- No — and it can't. Paddle proposes a mark against your scheme and writes the feedback. You read it, change anything you disagree with, and publish. Nothing reaches a student until you press the button. Every criterion also shows the phrase from their work the mark was based on, so you're checking it, not trusting it.
- Will it mark like I mark?
- Closer than you'd expect. Paste a strong and a weak answer with the marks you gave them and Paddle anchors to your standard rather than a generic one. Every mark comes with a confidence score, so you know which ones are worth a second look and which you can publish as they are.
- Who makes it
- Built in Brussels, developed alongside practising teachers, and tested against real marked scripts.
- Why students actually read it
- Most feedback gets a glance at the number. Paddle leads with one thing they did well and one thing to change next time, in language they'll follow, and a tree that grows every time they score 60%+. It's small, but it's the difference between feedback being read and feedback being filed.
- Resubmissions are the point
- A student can be asked to go again. The new attempt is marked from scratch, and they see the jump — 12 to 16, and exactly what moved it. Acting on feedback is the part that teaches; Paddle makes it visible and worth doing. You can see both attempts side by side.
- How marks work
- One mark = one piece of work marked. A resubmission is a fresh mark, because Paddle reads it fresh. Anything over 1,250 words uses two, which you turn on per assignment — so a long-form essay never gets quietly billed twice. Your monthly credits reset each month; top-ups you buy sit in a separate balance and never expire, so they're still there next term.
- What Free gets you
- 30 marks a month, 5 classes and 10 assignments, with no card. That's a full class set marked, start to finish — enough to know whether Paddle marks the way you do. The only thing held back is example answers, which is how you teach Paddle your standard.
- Why teachers upgrade
- Because 30 doesn't cover a term. Single is €8.99 for 150 marks a month, Double €15.99 for 300, Eight €44.99 for 900 — around six cents a mark, for work that takes fifteen minutes by hand. Paid plans unlock example answers and drop the class and assignment limits. Every plan marks to exactly the same standard: you're paying for volume, not for better marking. No per-student fee, no overage, no surprise invoice — when the marks run out, marking stops.
- What it isn't for
- Final reported grades, public examinations, or anything a student's record depends on. Paddle is for formative work — classwork, homework, practice essays, the pile that never gets marked because there isn't time.
For Teachers
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