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Assessment, Feedback & Moderation
Use AI as a draft assistant for feedback while remaining accountable for accuracy, tone, rubric alignment, and student dignity. You will practise turning generic comments into specific next steps that help a learner improve. This matters because automated feedback can sound confident yet be inaccurate, harsh, or inconsistent. For example, you will revise a fictional essay comment so it cites the rubric and gives a respectful action the student can take.
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AI can suggest feedback comments — but generic or wrong praise hurts trust. This module explains how to edit for accuracy, tone, and dignity.
Big idea
Use AI as a draft assistant for feedback; you remain accountable for what students read and how it affects them.
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Idea 1 of 7
Use rubrics to anchor both your judgment and your prompts. A rubric lists the specific criteria by which work will be judged — argument, evidence, structure, language — and describes what each level of quality looks like. Share it with students before they write, so feedback lands as measurement against a known standard rather than as surprise verdicts. Then reference the exact criteria in your AI prompts: 'Draft feedback comments on this anonymised paragraph against these two criteria: uses evidence to support claims; organises ideas in logical order.' Rubric-anchored prompts keep the AI's suggestions focused on what you actually assess, instead of the generic writing advice it defaults to — and they keep you honest too, because feedback that wanders off-rubric usually signals the rubric needs revising, not ignoring.
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Feedback and moderation loop
AI suggests formative notes from a rubric.
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Deep dive 1Feedback should move learning forward
The most useful comment names evidence in the work and an action the learner can take next. Replace “improve your argument” with “add one quotation after paragraph two and explain how it supports your claim.”
Deep dive 2Guard against false precision
AI can assign a score or praise detail it has misunderstood, especially when handwriting, images, or incomplete work are involved. Use it to generate wording options, not to replace your reading, marking, moderation, or final grade.
Deep dive 3Worked example: feedback on one essay paragraph
A learner writes that deforestation causes flooding 'because trees drink the rain'. The teacher reads it first and recognises a partial understanding worth building on. She asks the AI for three ways to phrase feedback that credits the correct link while correcting the mechanism, at Form 2 reading level. The drafts arrive; she picks one and edits it: 'You are right that fewer trees means more flooding — good connection. Now sharpen the science: roots hold soil and slow water down, rather than trees drinking the rain. Add one sentence about what happens to rainwater when roots are gone.' The AI supplied phrasing options; the teacher supplied the reading, the diagnosis, and the decision about what this learner needs next.
Deep dive 4Marking workload is a system problem
AI feedback drafting helps most when it is aimed deliberately. Whole-class patterns deserve whole-class responses: if half the scripts show the same misconception, a five-minute reteach beats thirty individual comments. Quick-turnaround tasks may need only a code system (three recurring errors, three symbols) that AI can help you define. Reserve rich individual comments — where AI drafting saves real time — for extended work where they change what the learner does next. Using AI to write thirty versions of feedback nobody acts on automates waste; redesigning the feedback system first makes the automation worth having.
Deep dive 5Feedback with dignity
AI drafts comments; you read the work and personalise tone.
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Built for: Teachers who mark written work, projects, or portfolios.
Formats: Feedback studio · Rubric matching · Tone scenarios · Quiz
Coursera assessment module; Microsoft educator feedback objectives.
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