Overcoming the challenges of External Marking

Outsourcing assessment marking to external providers has become commonplace for a lot of schools.

Reducing the workloads of teachers is now more important than ever before.

Using an automated platform like Sapphire can facilitate in organising all the challenges schools currently face delivering online learning to large amounts of students and provides a common-sense solution to what can otherwise be a difficult process to manage.

Additionally, Sapphire has developed streamlined, continuous processes resulting in assessments that can be marked faster, meaning results are delivered to students fast.

Sapphire speeds up the marking process as it allows simultaneous marking of assessments. This means markers aren’t waiting for other markers to complete their section, before they can proceed with their tasks.

Cloud-based security technology has been incorporated into the Sapphire platform, acknowledging that distributing information to teachers is an extremely important yet often time-consuming task.

Implementing the Sapphire Key Solutions software program in your school will mean that amongst other benefits, teachers will receive notifications when papers have arrived and are ready for marking. Thus, eliminating a task that’s usually handled manually.

And that’s exactly what Sapphire is all about:

moving tasks that were otherwise required to be physically handled into the digital space.

Some other key benefits of implementing Sapphire include:

• You can’t lose a paper because they are all captured in Sapphire and distributed digitally, making the sharing and return of assessments uncomplicated.
• Should a Marker become unavailable, their marking can easily be re-allocated and there is no waiting time involved for teachers receiving the re-allocated work.
• Heads of Faculty can closely monitor the entire process and have access to in-depth analysis of assessment results that Sapphire readily produces.
• Additionally, upon completion, teachers are provided with information on how many questions they have marked and for how many students which makes for easier invoicing.

Of course, the list of benefits goes on and more information is available at www.SapphireKeySolutions.com.au

This is what Heads of Faculties and Teachers are saying:

“We recently used the Sapphire marking platform to facilitate the marking of an examination by a number of external markers outside of the school. The Sapphire platform was very effective in allowing me to monitor the progress of the markers in marking scripts in real time.” Head of Faculty, Knox Grammar School

“Sapphire is a highly effective tool in allowing teachers to provide detailed and targeted feedback to student learning. The nature of the program ensures that the feedback can be directed towards specific areas of the students’ responses, allowing student growth to occur. Sapphire promotes greater flexibility in a teacher’s approach to marking and the ease in which the program is applied can only benefit the teacher and student.” Tony Nader, HSIE Coordinator – Marist Catholic College Penshurst

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