Who this is for
Headteachers, deputy heads with responsibility for teaching and learning, heads of English, humanities and science, and subject leaders reviewing marking policy.
The problem schools describe
- Marking is the single biggest driver of teacher workload, and it is the reason strong teachers give when they leave.
- Written feedback arrives too late to change what a pupil does next.
- Marking policies are applied inconsistently across a department, so moderation eats department meeting time.
How Learning Loft approaches it
We do not remove the teacher from marking — we remove the blank page. Your mark scheme, rubric or exam board criteria are loaded once, then every class set comes back with a draft mark, evidence-linked comments and a summary of the errors the whole class made. Teachers edit what they disagree with, approve what they do not, and the department gets a consistent standard without extra moderation meetings.
The tool behind it: LoftTick
Specification-aware marking and feedback with mandatory teacher review before release. See the LoftTick product page.
What it does
- Upload a whole class set at once, as typed text, photos of handwriting or PDFs
- Marking against your own rubric, department criteria or exam board mark scheme
- Criterion-by-criterion comments with the evidence from the pupil's work attached
- Whole-class error summary so the next lesson can be reshaped before it is taught
- Teacher review and approval on every response — feedback is never released automatically
- Department-level consistency records for moderation and quality assurance
How schools get started
- Send us the mark scheme or rubric for one unit so it can be loaded
- One department runs a single class set through LoftTick alongside its usual marking
- Compare the draft feedback with the teacher's own to agree where you trust it
- Roll out department by department, with a twilight CPD session for staff
What schools find in practice
Departments typically use LoftTick first on extended writing, where the drafting stage takes the longest — that is where teachers report the clearest time saved on their own marking.
Pricing
- School licences from £995 + VAT per year, including unlimited teacher accounts
- No per-teacher or per-class-set charge — marking volume is not metered
- Onboarding, mark-scheme setup and staff CPD included in the licence
- Multi-academy trusts are quoted bespoke on schools and pupil numbers