AI-assisted marking for schools
The marking is drafted.
The judgment is yours.
Photograph a class set of handwritten work, or upload typed essays as PDF or Word files. Qalami marks them against your rubric and drafts the feedback. You read it, change what you disagree with, and approve. Nothing counts until you do.
Ten days. 4 pages. No card, so there is nothing to cancel.
Against your rubric
9 / 12
- Content
- 4 / 4
- secure
- Organization
- 3 / 4
- secure
- Accuracy
- 2 / 4
- developing
Evidence for accuracy
“a very usefull tool for the learning”
The part nobody budgets for
A class set is thirty papers. Then the feedback. Then the report the head of department asked for.
It arrives every week, and almost all of it gets done after the working day has already ended.
Qalami takes the first pass.
How it works
Four steps, and you are only needed for one of them.
Step one
Write the rubric once
Your criteria, your maximum marks, your own description of what full marks look like. Qalami marks against that, and every class you set up afterwards reuses it.
Your rubric
Grade 9 · IGCSE First Language English
Content
4 marks
Full marks means: Answers the question with specific reference to the text.
Organization
4 marks
Full marks means: A clear line of argument the reader can follow throughout.
Accuracy
4 marks
Full marks means: Spelling and punctuation do not interrupt the reader.
3 criteria12 marks in totalStep two
Photograph or upload the papers
A phone camera is enough. Several pages per pupil, uploaded together, in any order. Typed work goes in as it is: a PDF, a Word file, or a printout photographed like any other page. Handwriting is the hard part, and it is what the product is built around.
This assessment
28 papers
3 pages
Photographed on a phone and uploaded together, in whatever order they came off the desk.
- Amira Haddad3 pagesScored
- Yusuf Rahman2 pagesScored
- Lena Ahmed3 pagesReading
Step three
Read the draft. Change what you disagree with.
Every score arrives with the evidence behind it, quoted from the pupil's own writing. Confidence drops where the handwriting obscured the evidence, so you know which paper to open first.
Awaiting your review
Amira Haddad · 12 of 28
Accuracy
2 / 4
“everybody have a different opinion”
The verb does not agree with its subject, and it happens three times in this piece, so it is worth teaching as a pattern.
Confidence0.68Lowered: the handwriting was unclear on the final line.
Approve this paperChange the markNothing counts until you doStep four
Hand back more than a number
Each pupil gets feedback in a teacher's voice, not a machine's. You get the class: which criterion is a whole-class teaching point, which one splits the room, who to sit with whom. Both export as PDFs.
Class report
9B · 28 papers
Pupil Contentsecure Organizationvaries Accuracywhole class Total Amira Haddad secure secure developing 9 / 12 Yusuf Rahman secure developing emerging 7 / 12 Lena Ahmed secure secure developing 10 / 12 Daniel Okafor developing emerging emerging 5 / 12 Teach next
Accuracy is the only criterion where the whole class sits below secure. Organization splits the room, so group rather than reteach.
The line that does not move
A teacher decides. Always.
Qalami never publishes a mark. It drafts one, shows you what it read, and waits. Whether each mark was approved or changed is recorded beside it.
No mark is final until a teacher approves it
That is how the system is built, not a setting somebody could switch off in a hurry.
Every score shows its evidence
Each point is quoted from the pupil's own page, so you can check it against the work.
Confidence falls where the page was hard to read
The papers that need your eyes most are the ones the app tells you about first.
The name
Qalami means “my pen”.
A pen does not replace the person holding it, and it does not decide anything. It means the first pass is done by the time you sit down with the class set.
Data protection
It holds photographs of children’s handwriting. We treat that as the serious thing it is.
Scans are deleted 90 days after a paper is approved
The marks and the feedback outlast them. The photographs do not.
Only your school's teachers can see your school's data
Enforced by the database itself, not by a setting we could get wrong.
Pupils' work is never used to train models
And nothing about your pupils is sold to anyone, ever.
No analytics, trackers or outside fonts
While a teacher is marking, their browser talks to us and nobody else. Your school's IT department can check this.
Your data leaves whenever you want it to
One archive of every record and every scan, in a form your IT team can open without our software.
Scans are private, and their links expire within the hour
A pupil's work is never sitting behind a URL that keeps working.
Try it on one class.
Ten days, 4 pages, and every feature the paid plans have.
Any teacher on your school’s email domain can join the same trial.