Spend the marking week
on the feedback, not the paperwork.
TomaGrade removes the sorting, tallying, and transcribing from marking (online submissions and scanned paper alike), so what is left is the judgement only a marker can make.
Where The Time Goes
Most of marking is not marking
Collating scripts, deciphering handwriting, keeping a team consistent, copying marks into a spreadsheet, then into the LMS. The academic judgement is a fraction of the hours.
Handling before judgement
Collating scripts, matching them to students, distributing them across a team, and collecting them back is work no academic was hired to do.
Consistency is manual
Keeping a dozen markers to one standard usually means meetings, sampling, and hope. Divergence surfaces after results are out.
Transcription costs and risks
Marks copied from script to spreadsheet to LMS take hours and introduce the errors that appeals are built on.
The Marking Flow
From closed sitting to published result
Select a step to see what TomaGrade handles for you.
Collect every script
Online submissions land automatically. Paper scripts are scanned in bulk and matched to the right student and the right scrambled version.
- Bulk scanning with automatic student matching
- Mix versions reconciled to the correct answer key
- Missing or unmatched scripts flagged before marking starts
Paper and screen, marked the same way
A scanned handwritten script and an online submission arrive in the same marking view, under the same rubric. Markers do not switch tools between modalities.
Online submissions
Marked the moment the sitting closes.
Objective items score themselves. Written answers go straight into the annotation view with the rubric alongside, ready to distribute across a marking team.
Scanned paper scripts
Scan the pile once, mark on screen.
Scripts are matched to students automatically, scrambled Mix versions are reconciled to the right answer key, and the physical papers never need to be sorted or posted between markers.
Built For Every Question Type
If a lecturer can write it, TomaGrade can mark it
From single-line multiple choice to multi-step STEM derivations, every format lands in the same marking view. Nothing gets flattened to plain text and loses its meaning.
Objective & multiple choice
MCQ, true/false, matching, and numeric-answer items score themselves the moment a sitting closes.
Formulas & STEM notation
Equations, chemical notation, and multi-step working render exactly as written, so markers see real mathematics, not flattened text.
Essay & long-form answers
Full annotation tools for extended written responses, online or scanned from paper.
File uploads & diagrams
Hand-drawn diagrams, spreadsheets, and other attached files sit alongside the rubric, not in a separate download.
Coding questions
Code submissions keep their formatting and syntax highlighting in the marking view.
Non-standard formats
Question types that don't fit a standard box can be configured per assessment rather than forced into a generic template.
Fairness At Scale
Twelve markers, one standard
The hardest part of marking a large cohort is not speed, it is consistency. Tomax makes divergence visible while there is still time to correct it.
Question-based marking
One marker takes one question across the cohort, so the standard holds.
Blind second marking
Independent marks compared and reconciled before release.
Live divergence view
See where a marker is drifting from the team while marking is still open.
Anonymous by default
Markers see the script, not the name, unless policy says otherwise.
What the student receives
A mark on its own teaches nothing. The time saved on administration is what makes real feedback affordable.
Annotated script
The marked paper itself, with comments in place rather than a summary at the end.
Rubric transparency
Which criterion earned which mark, so the grade is explainable without an email thread.
Faster turnaround
Feedback lands while the material is still current, not at the end of the following term.
Consistent voice
A shared comment bank means the same issue gets the same guidance across the cohort.
A route to appeal
Every mark is traceable to a marker and a criterion, which resolves most queries before they escalate.
Results in the LMS
Grades and feedback appear where students already look, with no re-entry by staff.
“Tomax freed us from the worldwide paper-exam headache. Now integrity is guaranteed and logistics take seconds, not months.”
Rosella Brennan
Head of Registry Services, Arden University
Common questions
Questions institutions ask us
Yes. TomaGrade is a shared engine and is sold standalone to institutions that want to keep their existing exam delivery but fix marking. It also powers grading inside TomaEtest and TomaSafe & Mix when you run the full platform.
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