Less Marking.
More Teaching.

Our online assessments save teacher time, cut costs and keep students secure. Now with Powermark -  AI-powered auto-marking for even faster results.

A person at a laptop using a Smartgrade assessment with a pop out of the type of format of a question a student may see.

Lighten workload, save on printing

Here's how Smartgrade's online assessments can reduce workload and save on costly printing.

Lighten teacher workload

Auto-marking is built into our online assessments. Multiple-choice questions are graded instantly, and free-text questions are quick to review.

No printing, no waste

Move away from costly paper-based exams. Save on printing, reduce clutter and make assessments more environmentally friendly.

Secure student access

Students log in with familiar Google or Microsoft accounts, ensuring a secure, hassle-free experience without extra passwords to remember.

NEW: AI Automarking

Powermark, our AI-marking tool auto-marks free-text answers with ultra-high accuracy to obliterate marking while teachers stay in control with effortless moderation and feedback.

Our guiding principles

Smartgrade has opinions about what good assessment looks like, and we are proud to work with thousands of schools and MATs that share our values.

Curriculum comes first

To assess effectively we need to understand what we were trying to teach in the first place. If your assessment approach does not align with your curriculum, then it’ll struggle to give you actionable information.

Assessment quality matters

We work with our assessment partners and MATs to help them iteratively improve their assessments.

We reduce teacher workload wherever we can

When we design our products, we think about teacher workload at each step. Our online markbooks are super simple to use, and our online assessments allow students to enter their results directly into Smartgrade, reducing marking.

Analysis should drive decision-making

We want every report in Smartgrade to lead to action. It’s easy to get caught up in creating endless reports that look pretty but lack a clear purpose. So we make sure Smartgrade analysis reports are always clear, show national context wherever possible, and lead to simplified decision-making for school leaders.

We believe in the power of standardisation

If you’re using unbenchmarked assessments, it’s hard to know what good looks like. That’s why assessments on our platform contextualise performance using a MAT or national standardisation sample. This means that teachers and leaders get meaningful benchmarking data to help them understand performance and spot gaps in learning.

How online assessments work?

Use selected HeadStart Primary assessments or build your own custom assessments. They're simple to use, and you can get started in no time. For more information, please see our help articles.

Chose an online assessment from the Marketplace or set-up your own custom assessment.
Students take the test and submit their answers online.
Multiple-choice questions are graded instantly, and free-text answers are quick to review or skip this step with Powermark - our AI marking tool.
Use Smartgrade's analysis module to examine results across questions, topics and year groups.
Custom assessment box with maths, english, science, languages and physics, covering many year groups

We standardise your custom tests and assessments

Smartgrade works with many of the UKs leading Multi Academy Trusts to provide MAT-wide standardisation, analysis and benchmarking. Adding your assessments to Smartgrade is simple, with MAT-wide publishing, easy importing, and online assessment options. We also provide comprehensive export tools and a secure API so you can extract your data and use Smartgrade as a single point of data entry for all schools in a MAT.

Testimonials

“The online assessments and auto-marking features mean minimal workload for maximum information gained to forensically inform next steps in teaching and learning.”
“The ability to capture assessment data across multiple schools and subjects, as well as compare to national cohorts, has enabled us to benchmark our progress in ways that have not been possible previously. The bulk export feature into Insight Tracker means almost instant ownership of meaningful data at classroom level through to the trust dashboard with a few clicks of a button centrally! We are data-rich without wasting a minute of learning time or teacher time!”
Emily Hobson, National Primary Lead for Strategy and Innovation at Oasis Community Learning
“Smartgrade’s online assessment tool is a crucial part of our KS3 common assessments.”
”Smartgrade allows use to celebrate successes and target support where it’s needed, at a curriculum level.“
Nimish Lad - Head of Curriculum Development at Creative Education Trust

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