Create your account

AutoMark is in private beta. Accounts are created directly at app.automarkhq.com — one account per teacher, set up in a couple of minutes.

Sign up

1. Go to app.automarkhq.com and switch to Create account.
2. Enter your email address and a password (at least eight characters). That’s the whole form.
3. Create the account, and you’re taken straight into the app.

Use an email address you’ll still have next term — it’s how you sign in, how a password reset reaches you, and how we contact you about the beta.

The sign-up screen also carries a line worth reading properly:

AutoMark is a personal tool for teachers, not a department-provided app — check your school’s policy on third-party apps before uploading student work.

That’s the honest position. AutoMark is sold to individual teachers, so whether you may put your students’ work through it is a question for your school, not for us.

Confirming your email and resetting a password

If a confirmation email arrives, open the link in it to confirm the address is yours. Forgotten your password? Use Forgot password? on the sign-in screen — it emails you a link to set a new one. Both links are single-use; if one has expired, request a fresh one from the sign-in screen.

Before you upload student work

The first time you go to upload a scan, AutoMark stops and asks you to confirm one thing. The panel is headed Before you upload student work, and the tick box says, in short, that consent for these students — parent or guardian consent, or an equivalent school collection notice covering processing by third-party providers — is already in place through your school’s normal processes.

Read it, tick it, and choose Confirm and continue. You’ll only be asked once.

It’s there for a real reason. Scanned tests are children’s personal information. AutoMark can’t collect consent from parents itself, so it relies on you telling it that side is covered. If you’re not sure where your school stands, ask before you upload a real class set — you can build a test and print papers without uploading anything.

Just above the button that starts marking, you’ll also find a short notice naming who processes what. What’s collected, where it’s stored, how long it’s kept, and how to have it deleted are all set out in the privacy policy; the terms of service cover the beta itself. Both are worth five minutes before your first class set.

Add your class

Marking is matched against a list of your students, so set up your roster before your first run. On the Students page, create a class with New class, then Add students to it. You can also add a student mid-run, while you’re matching papers.

Roster names should be close to what students actually write on their papers. Where two students share a first name, put enough on the roster to tell them apart — a surname or an initial is plenty — and you’ll save yourself sorting it out later.

Next

Build something to mark: Your first test.