Before you start
Markaroo is a web app — there is nothing to install. Open it in any modern browser and sign in with the credentials your administrator (or our pilot team) provided.
The question paper as a PDF or text, the matching marking scheme, and a list of the colleagues and students you want in your workspace. Anonymised papers are fine — see the Data Security note.
The journey at a glance
Create a workspace
Click Create New Workspace on your dashboard. Give it a name (e.g. "Year 12 Economics"), choose the subject, and add a short description. The workspace becomes the shared space for your department — colleagues you invite will see the same templates and assessments.
Add colleagues and students
Open the Members tab and search by email to add anyone with a registered Markaroo account. Toggle between Add Teacher and Add Student as you go. Roles range from Owner (you, by default) and Admin, to Teacher and Student.
Create a template
A template is your reusable assignment: it bundles the Question Paper and the Marking Scheme, plus exam board (AQA, Edexcel, OCR, WJEC), level (GCSE or A Level), and total marks. Upload both as PDFs, or paste them as text. Markaroo extracts the questions automatically and the template shows as Ready when it can be graded.
Upload answers — or let students submit their own
From the template, click Grade Students to drop in a batch of answer PDFs. Filenames become student names automatically (e.g. alice_smith.pdf → Alice Smith). Or share the workspace with students and let them upload their own response — saving you from scanning. Handwritten and typed answers are both supported, including diagrams in the same PDF.
Review the AI's draft, then publish
Markaroo streams its analysis live and saves a draft assessment per student. Open the Assessments tab to read the feedback, change marks, edit comments, or add your own. Nothing reaches a student until you publish. Choose summary feedback for quick turnaround, or detailed for a fully bespoke breakdown.
Read the dashboards
The Analytics tab gives you three views: Class Overview for marks at a glance, Error Analysis for the assessment objectives or topics being lost most often, and Leaderboard for movement across the cohort. Use them to plan the next lesson, not just record the last one.
Workspace → members → template → grade → review → dashboards. Repeat for every assessment. Templates and members are reused, so each round gets faster.
What's next
Pick the step that's least familiar and read the deeper guide. Most teachers find creating a template is the part that takes the most thought first time round.