Paddle marks student work against your own mark scheme — not a generic one. You read what it proposes, change anything you disagree with, and nothing reaches a student until you publish it.
25 marks a month free. No card, no trial that expires, nothing to cancel.
Upload a class set tonight and have every essay marked before your next lesson, each score backed by a quote from the student’s work. You check it, change anything, and publish. Your judgement, without the weekend of marking.
Marks you can check at a glance, because every score points to the line in the essay that earned it.
Nothing reaches a student until you publish. When it does, they get one thing to fix and a second go at it, so the feedback actually gets used.
About a minute to set up. Students never make an account.
Level 4 · 16–20 Perceptive, detailed evaluation. Judicious references to the text.
Level 3 · 11–15 Clear, relevant evaluation. Apt references support the view.
Level 2 · 6–10 Some evaluation, with some reference to the text.
Level 1 · 1–5 Simple, limited comment
Bands, criteria, indicative content: whatever you already use. On paid plans, add a strong and a weak answer with your own marks and Paddle matches your standard.
A line from the student’s own essay, matched to a band in your mark scheme. Paddle checks the line really is in their work before it shows it to you.
It says so. You get a likely range instead of one confident number, and the mark goes on your list to look at first.
You do. Every mark is a draft until you’ve read it. Change the score or the comment, then publish, or don’t.
Usually the first thing a school asks. Here is the plain answer.
Read the privacy policy →Classes, submissions and marks are kept in a database in the EU.
Each essay is sent to Anthropic’s Claude to be marked, as our processor. Their contract forbids training AI on it, and they delete it within 30 days.
The name a student types is never sent to the AI. Only the work, your mark scheme and the year group are.
Nothing reaches a student until you publish. Delete an assignment and its work whenever you like.
Two scripts from the same class. One Paddle is sure about, one it hands back to you.
You notice the buoy being thrown about and explain that it shows nothing in the bay is safe any more.
When you quote “the clock had stopped”, say why a stopped clock makes the ending feel hopeless.
You give your own view of the statement and back it with three moments from the extract. Your point about the dog’s silence is your strongest: you explain why the quiet feels worse than noise.
His view is clear in the first paragraph, but only one moment from the extract backs it up. That sits between Level 2 and Level 3 in your scheme.
Marking only teaches if the student does something with it. Paddle is built around that second attempt.
You now explain why the stopped clock makes the ending feel hopeless: time has stopped for the town as well as the people.
Ask for a resubmission and the new version is marked from scratch. They see the jump and exactly what moved it.
Paddle doesn’t tire at nine o’clock and doesn’t know whose work it is. The mark depends on what they wrote.
Drag to roughly what you mark in a month. One mark is one piece of work — a resubmission is a fresh mark, and anything over 1,250 words uses two. Free gives you 25 every month, with no card.
Paddle is AI essay marking for secondary teachers. You paste your mark scheme and share one link with your class. Paddle marks each essay against your scheme, backs every score with a quote from the student’s own work, and writes short feedback with one clear next step. You check it, change anything you disagree with, and publish. It’s built for English, History and other essay subjects at GCSE, A level and the European Baccalaureate.
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.
It marks band by band against the scheme you pasted, shows the line from the essay behind every mark, and tells you when it isn’t sure by giving a range instead of one number. The best test is your own: mark one essay you’ve already marked and compare.
Closer than you’d expect. On paid plans, paste a strong and a weak answer with the marks you gave them and Paddle matches your standard. Marks it’s less sure of come with a likely range and are flagged, so you know which ones are worth a second look.
In June 2025 the Department for Education backed teachers using AI for routine marking, provided the teacher stays in control of the outcome. That is how Paddle is built: every mark is a proposal, and nothing reaches a student until you publish it.
It is stored in the EU and never used to train AI models. Students type their name to submit and never make an account. You can delete an assignment, and every submission on it, at any time.
25 marks every month, 5 classes and 10 assignments, with no card. 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.
Because 25 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. Every plan marks to exactly the same standard: you pay for volume, not better marking. When the marks run out, marking stops. No overage, no surprise invoice.
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.
Paste the mark scheme, see what Paddle gives it, and compare it with yours. If it doesn’t mark the way you do, you’ve lost five minutes.
25 essays a month free · No cardTry a mark
Paste a piece of work and your mark scheme. No class, no students, no link to share — this is just Paddle marking something so you can see what it does. Your first one is free and nothing is saved.
Use a script you have already marked. Then the only question that matters — does it land where you did — answers itself.
Your department’s wording, criteria and bands — exactly as written.
One piece. Names are ignored, and nothing here is saved.
Everything happening on Paddle, live. Every number here is across all accounts.
Every account, its plan and how much it actually uses Paddle. Active means signed in or marked in the last 30 days.
| Teacher | Plan | Credits left | Classes | Marks | Last 30 days | Published | Changed | Last active | Signed up | AI cost |
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What Paddle proposed, what the teacher published, and what it cost. Click a row for the per-criterion breakdown.
| Submitted | Teacher | Assignment | Paddle gave | Published | Change | Confidence | Status | Words | Cost |
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Every published mark stores what Paddle proposed and what the teacher published. The gap between them is the only honest measure of whether the marking is any good.
| Assignment | Marks | Drift |
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The second mark is the one that matters. A first mark is curiosity; a second is somebody deciding to use this again.
One row per teacher who has marked anything, busiest this week first. Publish rate is whether marks reach students — marked but unpublished means Paddle is a second opinion, not the feedback. Edit rate is how often they changed Paddle’s mark before publishing.
| Teacher | This week | Per week | Published | Edited |
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Teachers who signed up through someone's link, and how far they got. Link opens are not tracked, so this starts at sign-up.
The rules say 0.9–1.0 should be the normal case. If the bulk sits lower, the prompt is not doing what it claims — and the guards below should almost never need to fire.
Switches that change what teachers see. Saved straight to Supabase, so they still work when the backend is down.
| Assignment | Class | Marked | Mean | Status |
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Coming soon — iOS and Android
Everything Paddle does on the laptop, in your pocket. Review, edit and publish a class set in the time it takes to get home.
We’ll email you once, when it’s out. Nothing else.