What is a workspace?
A workspace is a self-contained area on Markaroo where one teacher (the Owner) collaborates with colleagues and students on a shared set of assignments. Everything you create — templates, uploaded answer sheets, graded assessments, and analytics — belongs to that workspace and is invisible to anyone outside it.
Most schools create one workspace per teaching group (e.g. "Year 12 Economics — Set 1") or one per department (e.g. "A-Level History"). Both work; pick whichever maps to how you already plan.
Create your first workspace
Open your dashboard
After signing in you land on the teacher dashboard. If you haven't created anything yet, you'll see a single prompt to begin.
Click Create New Workspace
A short modal opens asking for three things.
Fill in the details
Name — what your team and students will see at the top of the page. Keep it specific: "Year 12 Economics" beats "Economics".
Subject — choose from the list (Economics, Business Studies, Politics, History, Psychology, Geography, Physics, English Literature, English Language). Subject controls the default grading mode for new templates.
Description (optional) — a one-line note for colleagues, e.g. "Mock papers, Spring term 2026".
Save
The workspace opens on the Members tab, ready for you to invite your team. You become the Owner automatically.
The four tabs inside a workspace
| Tab | What lives here |
|---|---|
| Members | The colleagues and students you've added, and their roles. |
| Templates | Reusable assignments — question paper + marking scheme + settings. |
| Assessments | Every graded paper, grouped by template, ready to review and publish. |
| Analytics | Class Overview, Error Analysis, and Leaderboard dashboards. |
How many workspaces should I have?
There is no limit. Common patterns:
- One per teaching group — cleanest analytics, simplest student lists. Good for class teachers.
- One per department — colleagues share templates centrally; useful for heads of department.
- One per year/cohort — useful when several teachers mark the same paper for the same cohort.
Templates can be copied between workspaces, so if you change your mind about structure later, no work is wasted.
Renaming, archiving, deleting
From your dashboard, the workspace card has a small menu (the three-dot icon) with options to rename, archive, or delete. Only the Owner can delete a workspace; archiving simply hides it from the active list without losing any data.
Deleting a workspace permanently removes its templates, assessments, and analytics. If you only want to clear the dashboard, archive instead.